Photograph album compiled by Charlie Chilcott containing 312 black and white prints and 138 colour prints.
The majority of the photographs document projectionists and projection equipment in cinemas throughout New Zealand in the early 1970s. Some of the images show cinema frontages. A few images date from the 1930s, 1950s and 1980s.
Photographs from the 1970s and 1980s were taken by Chilcott when visiting cinemas as vice president of the Union of Projectionists. Annotations by Chilcott record names of projectionists pictured and the theatre they work in.
The album also contains images of a farewell party [from Projectionists Union] for Russ Lynch; and images of strike action by the Northern Projectionists Union in 1977.
Also included are images of projection staff and facilities at Hoyts cinemas in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth, and at the Greater Union Cinema in Adelaide.
Projection equipment and staff, and/or frontages, of the following New Zealand cinemas are documented:
Auckland - St James
Auckland - Embassy
Auckland - Cinerama
Auckland - Century
Auckland - West End
Auckland - State (Symonds St)
Auckland - Civic
Auckland - Regent
Auckland - Plaza
Auckland - Lido (Epsom)
Auckland - Mid City
Auckland - Amalgamated Civic Theatrette
Auckland - Princess (Dominion Rd)
Auckland - Victoria (Devonport)
Auckland - De Luxe (Mt Albert)
Auckland - Berkley (Mission Bay)
Auckland - Metro (Mangere)
Auckland - Victory (Greenlane)
Auckland - Tudor (Takapuna)
Auckland - Tudor (Remuera)
Auckland - Star (Papakura)
Auckland - Delta (New Lynn)
Auckland - Astor (Dominion Rd)
Auckland - Mayfair (Sandringham)
Auckland - Crystal Palace (Mt Eden)
Auckland - Wintergarden
Auckland - Northcote Cinema
Auckland - Vegas (Newmarket)
Auckland - Central (Papatoetoe)
Auckland - Capitol (Balmoral)
Auckland - Orpheus (Otahuhu)
Auckland - Cinecenta (Manurewa)
Blenheim - West End
Christchurch - West End
Christchurch - Savoy
Christchurch - Odeon
Christchurch - Carlton
Christchurch - Regent
Christchurch - Cinerama
Christchurch - State
Christchurch - Hollywood
Christchurch - Avon
Christchurch - Masters
Dargaville - Empire
Dunedin - Octagon
Dunedin - St James
Geraldine - Geraldine Cinema
Gisborne - Odeon
Hamilton - Regent
Hamilton - Embassy
Hastings - State
Hastings - Hicks-West End
Invercargill - Embassy
Kawakawa - Kings
Kerikeri - Cinema Kerikeri
Mt Maunganui - Regent
Napier - State
Napier - Odeon
Nelson - Majestic
Otara - Otara Cinema
Otorohanga - Regent
Paeroa - Regent
Pukekohe - Grantham
Queenstown - Embassy
Raetihi - Royal
Reefton - Majestic
Rotorua - Odeon
Taihape - Regent
Taumarunui - Regent
Taupo - Starlight
Tauranga - Regent
Tauranga - Odeon
Te Aroha - Regent
Te Awamutu - Regent
Te Awamutu - Empire
Te Kuiti - State
Thames - Embassy
Waiuku - [Waiuku Cinema]
Wellington - Kings
Wellington - Majestic