The Palace Theatre was built in 1915 on the site once occupied by the Manawatu Stables. The Palace continued operation until 9 February 1935 when the theatre was badly gutted by fire. It was not until 1936 that the theatre reopened after extensive...

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          February 1917

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. In 1950, the movie "The Secrets of Life" achieved record breaking attendance figures throughout the country and at the local Mayfair Theatre. Its genre was considered "exploit...

Creator:      Pauline Knuckey
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 22, 2022

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 1st December 1965 "The manager of the new Odeon Theatre in Palmerston North, Mr. M. Creighton (left), examines a roll of standard 35mm movie film. With him is Mr. B. Ho...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          George Street, Palmerston North
Date:          November 30, 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 1st December 1965 "The manager of the new Odeon Theatre in Palmerston North, Mr. M. Creighton (left), examines a roll of standard 35mm movie film. With him is Mr. B. Ho...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          George Street, Palmerston North
Date:          November 30, 1965

A movie about the 2nd Palmerston North Industries Fair, held at the Showgrounds. The fair was organised by the Public Relations Association, with commercial displays, demonstrations and activities for the family. Produced by Guy Burgess for the NZ...

Creator:      Guy Burgess Production
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1961

Panorama of the Sound and Vision Zone on the ground floor of the Central Library in The Square. It looks up to the Mezzanine Floor. This is now the computer area of the library.

Creator:      Bernadette Peters for the PNCL
Place:          4 Te Mare o Hine/The Square
Date:          November 2006

Home Movie of the Jensen dairy farm on Tane Road, Opiki. Series of home movies spliced together, made by Charlie Jensen and his son, Keith Jensen in 1950s, except for the section dated 1964. Music added. Approximately 50 minutes long.

It shows:...

Creator:      Charlie and Keith Jensen
Place:          Opiki, Manawatu
Date:          1950s

The advertisement for The Million Dollar Mystery indicates that this photograph was taken during 1915-1916 as those were the years this 23 part serial ran at Everybody's Theatre. Everybody's Picture Theatre was built in 1913 by Arthur Hopwood...

Creator:      E G Child [?]
Place:          Coleman Place Palmerston North
Date:          1915 to 1916

This photograph ran with the caption, "Nine-year-old Carol Anne Ford, seen with the television set she won in the Manawatu Consumer Co-op "Place a Game" contest. Second prize, a refrigerator, was won by Mr W.J. Jones and the third prize, a waste d...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 1967

The Palace Theatre was built in 1915 on the site once occupied by the Manawatu Stables. The Palace continued operation until 9 February 1935 when the theatre was badly gutted by fire. It was not until 1936 that the theatre reopened after exte...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          George Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1920

The Regent Theatre opened 4 July 1930 as a cinema and theatre. It was designed by Charles Hollingshed and built of reinforced concrete, with a solid marble staircase, at a cost of £46,000 by Julian and Co., for its owners Williamson Films Ltd. The...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Regent, 53 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1930

A black and white poster, announcing the farewell visit of Wyld and Freedman's famous British Biograph with a series of the latest films that depicted real events from overseas "in life size". It played in Feilding 11 January in an unspecified yea...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Feilding, Manawatu
Date:          1900 to 1905

This group, photographed upstairs at the Palace Theatre, played at both the Kosy and Palace Theatres. From left. Back: C Fleming; O D Huse; W Carbine; A Berryman. Front: CE Bell; Miss S Hancock; G Raffles. Walter Leet later replaced C Fleming on ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 1919

This photograph shows cars and pedestrians on Coleman Mall (then Coleman Place). The Palace Theatre was built in 1915 on the site formally occupied by the Manawatu Stables. The first talking pictures to be shown in Palmerston North opened here in ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Coleman Mall, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1920

This image shows the portion of the Square from the corner of Rangitikei Street to Coleman Place. It includes the Clarendon Hotel; Duncalf's Boot Store (below) and GC Petersen Solictor (above); C G Swallows; Edwards Open Warehouse (hardware mercha...

Creator:      Charlie Trollope
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1927

The Meteor movie theatre was built by Maurice Millar of Millar and Giorgi, a menswear store. It was opened in the era of the 'talkies', in September 1937, on the eastern side of The Square. It had a capacity of 940 and was considered one of the mo...

Creator:      Snapshots Unlimited
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1937

The State Theatre Foyer with an advertisement for the film "3 Coins in a Fountain". This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s. 

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1955

The film being advertised here is the 1924 melodrama Lilies of the Field, staring Corinne Griffith and based on a play by William Hurlburt. The Palace Theatre was built in 1915 on the site once occupied by the Manawatū Stables. The first talking...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1929