West's Pictures

West's Pictures
IndustryEntertainment
FounderThomas James West
Defunct1912
FateMerged with Australasian Films
ProductsFilm production, film exhibition

West's Pictures was a short-lived Australian film production and exhibition company during the silent era. It was established by English theatrical entrepreneur Thomas James West (1885–1916) who helped turn the company into one of Australia's largest exhibitors.[1] The company also produced a regular newsreel and several narrative films, some made by Franklyn Barrett.[2][3][4]

Many of their early films were contemporary stories made on a joint writer-technician-director basis.[5]

West partnered with Henry Hayward in presenting films in New Zealand and Australia, supplementing the film show with variety performers, "The Brescians"[6] later establishing a chain of cinemas in Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain, including:

  • On 5 December 1908 West's "Olympia" (previously the Adelaide Glaciarium) opened in Hindley Street. Adelaide was the last of Australia's capital cities to have a permanent picture theatre.
  • In 1909 Royal Hall (later West's Cinema) on the corner of Peter Street and Bath Street, St Helier, Jersey.

West's Limited merged with Australasian Films in 1912, becoming part of "The Combine" that later became the Greater Union organisation.

T. J. West's film company was often confused in the public mind with that of A. J. West's quite separate 'Our Navy' company (incorporated 1902), but there was no connection. However, T. J. West did secure the exclusive right in 1912 to show A. J. Wests's 'Our Navy' films in Bournemouth (Bournemouth Graphic, 27/09/1912).

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See also

References

  1. ^ "Picture Profiles in the Olden Days". Winner. Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 9 February 1916. p. 11. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
  2. ^ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 26
  3. ^ "Theatrical Gossip". The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People (Sydney, NSW : 1900 - 1918). Sydney, NSW: National Library of Australia. 26 August 1911. p. 3. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  4. ^ "Universalto Spetid £3,600,000 On Ambitious 1931 Schedule.", Everyones., Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 4 February 1931, nla.obj-576714538, retrieved 16 August 2024 – via Trove
  5. ^ Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press 1989 p 39
  6. ^ "On and Off". Smith's Weekly. Vol. VI, no. 12. New South Wales, Australia. 10 May 1924. p. 12. Retrieved 31 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.

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