Interior view of the restored auditorium in The Capitol Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria [picture] / [Walter Burley Griffin]
- Bib ID:
- 3700255
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Griffin, Walter Burley, 1876-1937
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1924
- 1 photograph : sepia toned ; 15 x 20 cm.
- Series:
- Eric Milton Nicholls collection.
- Biography/History:
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The Capitol Theatre opened in 1924 and was the first picture palace to be built in Australia. It was designed by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, and is notable for its ornate plaster ceiling lit in four colours by 4,000 concealed light globes.
- Notes:
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- Title from acquisition documentation.
- Part of the collection: Eric Milton Nicholls collection.
- Inscription: "The Capitol Theatre 1924, Auditorium (above) restored 1965, The Entrance Lobby (below) demolished."--Beneath images.
- Glued to cardboard with another photograph.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-150346777
- Also available as a negative: Interior view of ceiling inside main theatre, Capitol Theathre, Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, PIC/9929/2107 LOC Cold store PIC NICH.
- Vernon inventory, Pt. IV/3 No.4i.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from Marie and Glynn Nicholls, 2006.
- Subject:
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- Capitol Theatre (Melbourne, Vic.) -- Photographs
- Motion picture theaters -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Photographs
- Theaters -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Design and construction -- Photographs
- Theater architecture -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Photographs
- Art deco (Architecture) -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Photographs
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1924
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