State Theatre
King's Road and Tin Chong Street,
Hong Kong
King's Road and Tin Chong Street,
Hong Kong
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Suwantii, Thanks for the update and it’s nice to know that Cinema Treasures gets an end credits mention. Many Thanks to you for showing me the building (and many other cinemas) when I was in Hong Kong several years ago.
A documentary of Harry Odell–The founder of The Empire Theatre –and the Empire/State Theatre produced by Walk in Hong Kong was premiered in Hong Kong on 2nd April, 2023 at the City Hall Theatre. The name of Cinema Treasures appear in the closing credits of the documentary.
Restoration is coming.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2021-04-26/restoring-hong-kong-s-last-surviving-movie-palace-video?fbclid=IwAR3xhgIR8j6Ud1CLY9PPpL1QEsdJJvtCtpc9_BkBk5RhD1MVurbJfEzQ6UU
I used to live at Empire Apartments (to the right of State or Empire Theatre). Suwanti, is there any chance you can enlarge the photo so that I can read what was written on the building which was the precursor of Empire Apartments?
Its Chinese name is 璇宮戲院 and 皇都戲院。
The history of State Theatre was amazing. My memory can only be traced back to the early 80s when State, together with Queen’s in Central and Tai Ping in Western District, was under Golden Harvest Circuit. It seems that GH had many of the important cinemas in Hong Kong at the time.
a very old picture when State was still Empire:
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Here is a 1968 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/yanpkoe