Bulawayo Theatre Albums

Frank Mathison's collection of albums from the Bulawayo theatre scene.

1949.

4 albums and one theatre program.

Edwin 'Ted' A. Payne was the first regular newsreel cameraman in South Africa. His weekly 'Payne's Mirror' first appeared in 1912, a year before the first 'African Mirror.'

He originally had a photographic studio in Long St, Cape Town which he later transferred to Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. Friend Lawrence Green remembered Payne's box camera and large glass plates and reels of film that were screened at Wolfram's and other Cape Town bioscopes. By 1940, the Bulawayo business became known as Payne's Studios Ltd.

Each album approx: 310 x 235 x 20

R1,500