Stuart Booty standing next to his invention, the Vitavox Gramophone.

This silent advertisement promotes the new ‘Touring Talkie Show’ truck operated by Hoyts – with sponsorship from Studebaker Car Corporation and the Shell Oil Company.

This clip shows an entire Maxonol Gramophone cinema advertisement from 1925 in which a couple decide to buy a gramophone to keep their daughter at home.

This film was the first venture by the McDonagh sisters: Paulette, director and principal writer; Phyllis (the youngest), business manager, publicist and art director; and

In 1929, Hoyts – with help from Studebaker and the Shell Oil Company – loaded cinema sound equipment onto a truck so regional Australia could experience the latest in 'talking pictures'.

This silent clip begins with a title card announcing that the Wintergarden Theatre is the 'first theatre in the world to present a completely new invention in Talking Picture Equipment’.

An intertitle invites viewers to 'see for a brief moment’ the sound equipment for talking pictures. Then a Hoyts Talking Pictures Roadshow sound unit truck is seen coming down the street.

This invitation card was kept in a scrapbook created by the McDonagh Sisters documenting the release and response to their film The Far Paradise in 1928. 

This page from the McDonagh sisters scrapbook documenting their second film The Far Paradise (1928) features a review from The Sunday Times, 24 June 1928 which praises the film for it's pr

A full-spread newspaper advertisement from Theatre Orange, showcasing The Far Paradise (1928) as featured in a scrapbook created by the McDonagh sisters to document their second