Audience watching silent film screening, Majestic Theatre, Factory Street, Pomona, 1990

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TitleAudience watching silent film screening, Majestic Theatre, Factory Street, Pomona, 1990 Additional InformationThe Majestic was built as a multi-function hall in 1921 for Errol A. Osborne and wife Myra, then licensees of the Pomona Railway Hotel. Silent films were screened from1923 until 1931 when the first 'talkies' were shown. In 1974 Ron and Mandy West purchased the theatre and after initially operating it as a first release cinema they reopened in 1987 as a silent movie house, screening films with an organ accompaniment. The theatre passed into community ownership in 2006 and following extensive refurbishment it is operated by Pomona Progress Art Tourism Incorporated as a silent film venue which is also equipped for stage performances and community and corporate events. The balcony (background) seating fifty people, was originally installed in the late 1930s by the then proprietor Ernie Bazzo. He also replaced the canvas sling seats with theatre chairs from the Princess Theatre, South Brisbane.Date1990Image NoM864614

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Audience watching silent film screening, Majestic Theatre, Factory Street, Pomona, 1990