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1-2. [Radio telegraphist sends and receives messages]
3-4. [Ship's radio room]
5-6. [Radio broadcasting equipment]
7. JCW stars at D.J.'s radio exhibition, March 1937
8. [Radio console models]
9-10. [Radio studio on board a ship]
11. [Cat sitting on a radio]
12. [Portable Rola public address system]
13. [C. & W. Australian Biograph motion picture projector]
14. [C. & W. motion picture projector in the bio-box of a cinema]
15. [C. & W. recording equipment in studio]
16. [Motion picture equipment in a van]
17. [Speech broadcast on Radio 2KA]
18. [John Dunn, Val Heslop and Albert Lenertz sign a contract on behalf of Aeroplane Jelly, Universal Pictures and 2SM (frame no. 7146 Home & away videodisc)]
19. [2GB broadcasts from a theatre foyer during a movie premier]
20. [Premier Stevens in evening dress speaks on 2UE in a theatre foyer ?]
21. [Man and woman with 2UW microphone]
22. Shirley Ann Richards [at the premiere of "Tall timbers"]
23. [Two American sailors and group around a 2UW microphone]
24-25. [Art deco interior of 2UW radio studio]
26-30. Fidelity Radio general office, reception desk, audition room, manager's office, entrance to packing room (frame nos. 8542-8546 Home & away videodisc)
31. [2UW transmission room and equipment]
32. [2CH woman annnouncer or actress]
33-36. [Slavic string group with singer in 2CH studio - Willa Hokin, mezzo, Francois Stempinski, violin, possibly the Vagabond Gypsies]
37-38. [Women win prizes of canteens of cutlery on 2CH]
39. [Choir singing in 2CH radio studio]
40-41. [Three men in "black face" and dinner suits broadcast at 2CH]
42-43. Lady Haig at 2CH with Mr Fisk and Mr Spencer, February 1937 (frame nos 14886-14887 Home & away videodisc)
44-45. [AWA dinner speeches, including Arthur Calwell]
46. [AWA men having a drink]
47. [AWA men having a celebration at AWA, Ashfield]
48. [AWA radio valve display and advertisement]
49. [AWA Radiola console radio in the shop window of Otto Sandel, founder of 2UW]
50. [Fisk shakes hands]
51. [Man tunes in an AWA radio]
52-53. [Executives watch women AWA factory workers making radio valves, 1936]
54. [Women work in World War I (?) factory]
55. [Men at a dinner or lunch, 1938]
56. [Women open large pile of letters]
57-58. [Fisk and party in white tie and tails at radio exhibition, Town Hall, March 1937]
59. [Fisk speaks at a lunch]
60. [Fisk and party at radio exhibition]
61. [Santa Claus and AWA microphone at Christmas party]
62. [Women view Fisk Radiola receivers at the radio exhibition, 1937]
63. [AWA men have a drink in the yard of the factory]
64. [Fisk and party of men and women]
65-66. [Governor Wakehurst and Fisk at a state dinner]
67. [Fisk and ocean liner officer on deck]
68-69. [Group at Government House and Sydney University]
70. [Lord and Lady Wakehurst, Premier Stevens and Fisk at a state function]
71-72. [Fisk and Justice Street inspect AWA factory]
73. AWA Christmas party 18 December 1937
74. AWA conference 26 March 1935;  l to r: C.Nichols (Singleton), L.J.Harrison (Parkes), A.W. Clarke (Trundle)
75. Fisk shows Sir George, Sir Oliver and the Ladies Barstow over the AWA works, Ashfield
76. [Coat of arms with kangaroo crest, shield with lightening flashes and motto "Mens sana in corpore sano"]
77. Mr McDonald, AWA
78. [Group of men look at the amplifier of a radio at the radio exhibition, 1937]
79. [David Jones' entry of a radio float in a procession]
80. [2CH Jolly Boat ?] 
81. [Group with a dog in radio studio]
82. [Girl speaking over a microphone]
83. [Stuart F. Doyle speaking to the microphone at the gala opening of the Australian Broadcasting Company, 17 July 1929, with (l to r): Postmaster General Harry Percy Brown, music publisher Frank Albert and theatre impresario Sir Benjamin Fuller]
84. [Amy Johnson, aviator, being shown a recording as she sits in front of a microphone]
85. [Prizes presented to children belonging to Red Cross;  the stage has a microphone]
86. [Demonstrating a field radio to boys]
87. [Radio performer in the studio while control man looks through the glass]
88. [Woman from 2CH Australian Women's League speaks in the Trocadero, 1937]
89-90. [Group of high school boys in 2CH (?) studio]
91. [Group of radio producers in a studio planning a show ?]
92. [Man speaking at a lunch or dinner at the Trocadero]

2. Radio telegraphist

3. Ship's radio room

6. Radio broadcasting equipment

Hood Collection part II : [Radio stations and broadcasting, including equipment, radio studios and Amalgamated Wireless (AWA), also some motion picture equipment and use of microphones]

1-2. Aboriginal stockmen with horses
3-4. Unidentified outback sheds
5. View from aboard unidentified ship
6. Eric Thompson
7. As Camouflage Officer working on the staff of Professor Dakin
8. Unidentified military group portrait.
9. Cinderella on strings, Nancy Thompson did commentary
10. Eric Thompson
11. Eric Thompson, Charles Lawrence
12. Unidentified portraits
13. [Erica Thompson with two friends, ca. 1955]
14. [Erica Thompson, ca. 10 years old]
15. Farewell party
16. Rodney Gurr & others
17. Eric Thompson & Rodney Gurr
18. Gwen Munro, lead in Orphan of the Wilderness, a Melbourne girl, Australian representative in Paramount's "Search for Beauty" and featured player for Cinesound Productions
19. Unidentified
20. [Ken Hael?], Ann Richards and Eric Thompson at farewell to Lloyd Hughes and Gloria Hughes
21-22. Eric Thompson on location for documentary for Film Australia
23-24. Set designed by Eric Thompson for "Lovers and Luggers" - set is a Chinese cafe on Thursday Island
25. Eric Thompson photo sent to his family under the family nickname of Bill
26. Eric Thompson taken by Monte Luke on his return to Australia, 1936
27. Charles Lockwood
28. Shirley Ann Richards rests between shots and discusses the schedule with Eric Thompson Art Director and ron Whelan Assistant Director
29. Eric Hayes and Nancy Thompson on set of "Come up Smiling", also titled "Ants in his Pants"
30. Aileen Britton and Eric Thompson
31. Eric Thompson and Ferdie [?]
32. Eric Thompson - film consultation with staff
33. Eric Thompson, Lloyd Hughes & wife Gloria, either "Lovers & Luggers" or "Broken Melody" at Cinesound
34. Harry McAfee, Art Director, Julian Harrison, sketch artist, Idris Lloyd, Head of Art Dept (MGM), Eric Thompson, Howard Fisher, Art Director & Aniat Page, film star. MGM Sutdios, Culver City, California
35. George Wallace in doorway
36. Shooting in USA, Director was Aubrey Scott
37-41. Sets under construction for "Forty Thousand Horsemen" 
42. Group portrait, with live kangaroos on film set
43. Ink cartoon by Eric Thompson, Jan 3rd 1920
44. Old Bridge Tasmania [pencil drawing by Eric Thompson]

This pictorial material is part of the Eric Thompson papers, 1918-ca. 1970, at MLMSS 3937

Eric Thompson photographs including scenes of him working on film sets such as Forty Thousand Horsemen, 1920s and later

1-16. [Making the Cinesound-Ken Hall film "Thoroughbred", including publicity photographs of Helen Twelvetrees with Ken Hall, Pontiac car in front of Cinesound, her leading man, and with a horse and an elephant, between 4 December 1935-April 1936]
17-18. [Shirley Ann Richards and head of film studio (?) speak to the crowd at the premiere of film "Tall timbers", 1937]
19. [Odeon National Cinema Club at Drummoyne Odeon, 1948, (which was showing Popeye cartoon, "Orphan of the wilderness" and a serial)]
20. [Norman Rydge at the opening of the Odeon Children's Club, Petersham Odeon, 1948]
21. [Crowd outside an Arcadia cinema showing "McCohens and Kellys in Scotland", ca.1930]
22. [Two women (one in 18th century dress) and man at The Movie Ball, 1929 (?), Palais Royal (frame no.7844 home & away videodisc)]
23. [George Webster, left, speaks on the opening night, King's Theatre, Mosman, 1937-8 (other photographs in this series at frame nos.8724-8733 Home & away videodisc)]
24. [Film "Lost horizon" arrives from the US on the liner Mariposa, March 1937]
25. [Conductor] Maurice Gutteridge at the Regent Theatre, May 1937 (frame no.14785 Home & away videodisc)
26. [Presentation of an illuminated address to Stuart F. Doyle, Managing Direstor, Union Theatres by Australian Cinema Pioneers, Carlton Hotel, 12 Aug 1937;  present were Stan Crick, Herc McIntyre, Stanley Wright, A.N. Williamson, S.J. Parry, Tim Wiseman and Bill Szarka (frame no.8538 Home & away videodisc)]
27. [Men and a woman at the door of an express train carriage]
28. [Star Anna May Wong]
29. [Woman (Fay Compton ?) lighting man's cigarette from her own]
30. [Women cleaning, repairing and rewinding films]
31. [Ushers and one nurse line up in the foyer, Capitol Theatre]
32. [Hoyts ushers and candy tray boy (?) in line on the footpath]
33-38. [American all-girl band "Ingenues" with the "World's first trackless train" advertising MGM films, Stanley and Yurong Streets, Martin Place and the Domain, ca.1930]
39. [Electrical and projection team in a large city cinema]
40-42. [Installing Wurlizter organs in cinemas]
43. [Dangar, Gedye & Co. display of Lister shearing machine and usherettes in the foyer of a cinema]
44-45. [Painting dept. of a cinema watch the painting of a gangster portrait]
46. [Painting dept. backstage with cardboard cutouts and a devil or Batman head]
47. [Executives inspect behind the screen]
48. [Projectionists working a projector]
49. [Cameraman, motion picture camera and bathing belles]
50. [Woman making a speech to a microphone;  on a billboard a poster for Spencer Tracy in "Dante's Inferno" (1935)]
51. Shooting a scene [on the studio set for the house "Jerseyville"] for "Granddad Rudd" at the opening of the extension of Cinesound studios by the Premier on Friday night
52. [Shooting a scene in front of a filmset house]
53. [Crowd of mainly men around a man on stilts advertising "Street scene" at the Capitol, 1931]
54. [Studio sound man behind glass and poster for Fox Movietone News, vol.2, no.33]
55-56. [Models dressed as rickshaw drivers and women passengers to advertise the Universal film "Shanghai lady", Haymarket Theatre foyer and Botanic Gardens (?)] 
57. [Man holding balloons advertising "Sally" at the State Theatre, 1930]
58. [Hoyts (?) ushers outside Haymarket Theatre showing "Mary murder"]
59. [Empress Theatre tableau float for the Movie Ball]
60-61. [Lyceum theatre tableau floats (no.61 representing Al Jolson ?) for Movie Ball]
62. [Film executives on stage of a theatrette in evening dress with cutouts of Mickey Mouse]
63. [Men in a studio with microphone and two models dressed as Mickey and Minnie Mouse]
64. [Union Theatres float for Movie Ball]
65-67. [Cummings and Wilson Australian made cinema projector]
68. [Palace Theatre, lit at night, showing "Dracula" with Nat Madison]
69. [Frank Cridland trucks line up in Market Street to deliver the State Theatre Wurlitzer organ in boxes]
70. [Installing a Wurlitzer theatre organ]
71. [Blower for a Wurlitzer theatre organ]
72-76. [State Theatre under construction (no.75 may be another theatre)]
77-92. [State Theatre, 1927]
93. [Hinkler Beacon which was on top of the State Theatre]
94. [State Theatre projectors and biobox ?]
95-98. [Furniture and furnishings which may be State Theatre ?]
99-101. [Electrical equipment in city theatre ?]
102-104. [Capitol Theatre interior]
105. [Outdoor advertisement and neon lights on Capitol Theatre seen from Parker Street]
106. [Billboard advertising the Capitol Theatre]
107. [Porters Aerial Transport Gypsy Moth biplane in the foyer of the Prince Edward Theatre advertising a Memorial Air Meeting, Saturday 29 November and the Paramount film "With Byrd at the South Pole"]
108. [Projectors and biobox]
109. [Manager's office of a cinema ?]
110-112. [Hoyts cinema foyer advertising 20th Century Fox films "4 men and a prayer" with Loretta Young and Richard Greene and "Vivacious lady" with James Stewart and Ginger Rogers (possibly Balmain)]
113-114. [Proscenium of unidentified theatre with Greek/Regency style decoration]
115-117. [Entrance foyer, stairs, box office and "Three graces", Regent Theatre]
118. [Facade, Arcadia Cinema, Lidcombe]
119-121. [Double Bay Vogue, 1938, interior and exterior]
122. [Century Theatre, 1938]
123-126. [Interiors], Lindfield Kings, 1938
127-130. [Interior, Victory Theatre, Sydney]
131-136. [Interior and exterior, Minerva Theatre, Potts Point (no.133 is NCY30/531, no.134 is NCY30/529, no.135 is NCY30/535 and no.136 is NCY30/530)]
137. [State Theatre laneway ?]
138. [Radio studio in the old Globe Theatre, George Street]
139. [Exterior, Victory Theatre, George Street]
140-146. [Interior, Haymarket Theatre, George Street]
147-149. [Exterior and interior, Savoy Theatre, Hurstville]
150-151. [Exterior and interior, Olympia Theatre, Annandale]
152. [Interior, Jewel Theatre, Bankstown]
153-154. [Interior and exterior, King's Theatre, Lindfield]
155. [Interior, Lindfield Theatre]
156. [Roxy Theatre, Parramatta]
157. [Foyer, new King's Theatre, Mosman]
158. [Foyer, Hoyts Theatre, Ashfield]
159-160. [Exterior, Szarka Bros. Enmore Theatre, showing "Shanghai lady" and "Bulldog Drummond"]
161-163. [Interior, Crystal Palace Theatre, George Street]
164. [Exterior, King's Theatre, Clovelly]
165. [Interior, Regent Theatre, Bankstown]
166-167. [Exterior, Century Theatre, Sydney (and Crystal Palace Arcade)]
168-169. [Interior and exterior, Astor Theatre, Burwood]
170-171. [Box office (note swastika decoration), and dress circle foyer, Collaroy Theatre, 1938]
172-174. [Interior and exterior, King's Theatre, Bondi Beach, 1937]
175. [Circle foyer, Hoyts Theatre, Rozelle]
176-178. [Interior, old Lyceum Theatre]
179. [Facade, Parramatta Theatre, 1920's]
180. [Auditorium ceiling, Royal Theatre, Lakemba]
181-182. [Kings Cross Theatre, 1927-1931 and ca.1935-1937]
183-192. [Interior, Lyric Theatre, George Street, 1920's]
193-197. [Interior, Lyric Theatre, remodelled in Art Deco style, 1937]
198-200. [Foyer, King's Theatre, Bondi Beach, 1937 (see also nos.172-174)]
201. [Foyer and box office, Crescent Theatre, Fairfield]
202. [Foyer, 2UW Theatrette, State Shopping Block (NCY31/743 or 750)]
203-205. [Plaza Theatre under construction, completed and floral tributes from the film companies in the foyer]
206. [Foyer, Astor Theatre, Burwood]
207-212. [Interior and exterior, Regal Theatre, Gosford]
213. [Gosford Hall, opposite the railway station, showing Gosford Picture Coy. Wed. & Sat.]
214. [Unidentified theatre foyer featuring Art deco rose pattern carpet (possibly Bondi Road Hoyts)]
215. [Candy bar and circle foyer, Century Theatre]
216. [Stairs and box office, Century Theatre]
217. [Full house in an unidentified Art deco theatre]
218. [Dress circle and Art deco wall and ceiling, Odeon Theatre, Campsie]

1. Crew of "Thoroughbred", including the director Ken Hall

2. Ken G. Hall [middle]

3. Actors from the film "Thoroughbred"

Hood Collection part II : [Theatrical, Cinema; people, films and theatres]

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