Interior view of ceiling and stage, inside main theatre, Capitol Theathre, Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 1924 [picture] / [Walter Burley Griffin]
- Bib ID:
- 3915212
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Griffin, Walter Burley, 1876-1937
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1924
- 1 negative : b&w ; 35 mm.
- 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.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-150397129
- Also available as photographs: Interior view of the restored auditorium in The Capitol Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria, PIC/9929/189 LOC Drawer PIC/9929/189 Folder 8; View of the ceiling and curtain from the back of theatre, Capitol Theatre, Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, PIC/9929/875-6 LOC Album 1092/5.
- 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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