Sunday, 26 May | 12pm

Venue: Oldham Theatre, 1 Canning Rise, Singapore
Fee: $10
Registration Link: https://shf24cinemaparadiso.peatix.com (Registration starts from 24 Apr, 12pm onwards)

Singapore once had a vibrant and popular film-going culture that was serviced by a proliferation of theatres and screening spaces all over the city: from grand halls in the central districts such as Capitol or Lido, through to neighbourhood cinemas like The Metropole, The Galaxy, The Majestic, The Liberty and more. In recent decades, the larger ‘Halls’ were divided up or closed down, and multiplexes in shopping malls have become the norm. While new cinemas offered convenience and air-conditioning, the charm and atmosphere of the older ‘stand-alone’ cinemas was over. Today, in the post-Pandemic era, all cinemas are under threat as films are increasingly being released directly to our homes. In this talk entitled ‘Cinema Paradiso – the Lost World of Singapore's Picture Palaces’, film historian and memorabilia collector Wong Han Min will present a history of old cinemas in Singapore from 1896 to 2000, drawing on his extensive collection of visual materials related to this sadly vanishing era.

The talk duration will be 60 mins.

Part of the programme Cinema Reclaimed: DREAM PALACES. Organised in partnership with Asian Film Archive.