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The last silent
program was presented
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on Saturday 21 February, 1931,
a double feature, The Black Watch
supported by the comedy Geraldine.
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South Australian installation of the
Australian made Raycophone sound
equipment was completed at the Ideal.
Some two years after sound was
introduced to the city theatres of
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Wednesday 25 February, 1931 with
Tom Walls in Rookery Nook. The
talkies had come to stay at Kadina!
The folk of the Copper Coast
continued to be entertained and
informed at the Ideal, through the
years of the depression and Second
World War.
Following the expiration of the lease
to the Clifford Circuit in 1944 and
its subsequent sale to Greater Union
Theatres, the lease was transferred to
G.U. on the 19 March, 1947, however
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for legal reasons the Clifford Circuit
name was retained as exhibitor.
The freehold of the property was sold
to the United Insurance Company
in December 1953. Later, on the 1
st
January, 1956 G.U. entered into a new
10 year lease.

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