Final Bow at Marina Picture Palace, the decaying stage of Marina Picture Palace.

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Series · 20 prints

Marina Picture Palace

Photographed 2019
Frames 20
Camera NIKON D850
Location New South Wales, Australia
Status Facade retained; apartments and retail behind
Years 1927 to 1984
Architect William de Putron
01 ABOUT THIS SERIES

Series story

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Marina Picture Palace opened on 24 June 1927 on the corner of Gardeners Road and Sutherland Road, between Mascot and Rosebery. The architect William DePruton, who was also one of the original owners, designed it as a 1,210-seat single-screen picture palace, opening with a double bill of Mary Pickford in *Sparrows* and John Barrymore in *The Beloved Rogue*. The Snider & Dean Circuit ran the cinema from 1939 until the early 1960s. After a series of openings and closings under independent operators, the building reopened as the Rosebery Cinema on 1 October 1982 and closed as a working cinema for the final time on 8 February 1984. The stalls were converted into Videomania, a video shop that traded with much of the cinema's original decoration intact, until that closed by 2002. The building was converted to 47 apartments in the 2010s.

03 PRINTS

Prints in this series

Hand-signed limited editions, printed from the original RAW file. Editions run from 100 down to 25 and are not reissued once they sell through.

04 ABOUT THE PRINTS

How they’re made

Made to order by Brett in Sydney, from the original RAW file. Each print is hand-signed and numbered before it ships.

Paper

Ilford Galerie cotton rag, 310 gsm. Acrylic on metallic gloss, 260 gsm.

Editions

Open in XS and S. Limited in M (100), L (50), XL (25). From $100.

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Lead time

Unframed: 5 to 10 business days. Framed and acrylic: 10 to 20.

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