Picture Palace Architecture in Australia - Ross Thorne (Card covers, 1976)

 

Australasian cinemas of the 1920s and 1930s provide some of the richest examples of ornate popular architecture in the western world. In the U.S., Roxy Rothapfel and others converted vaudeville houses to luxurious flamboyant cinemas where the masses escaped from the humdrum workaday world. 

Australian movie entrepreneurs such as Hoyts and J. C. Williamsons, who wished to attract people by the thousands to their theatres, were captivated by the elaborate cinemas of the U.S. Soon people in Australia's capital cities were flocking to see amazing movie spectacles with all their visual paraphernalia in unbelievably luxurious surroundings. 

This book by Ross Thorne, Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney, looks at the development of architectural design and interior decoration of Australasian picture palaces.

 

Paperback, 27pages of text, plus 90 b/w and colour full-page and half-page plates.

 

Condition: VG used - VG covers, binding and pages. No inscriptions or writing.

ISBN: 072510225X

 

Published:  South Melbourne, Vic : Sun Books, c1976

 

Weight: 350 gms

 

Size: 28 x 22 cms.

 

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