Cover image for Dick Perry (Cinema Poster Collector)
Agency:
Dick Perry (Cinema Poster Collector)
Agency Number:
Start Date:
01 Jan 1930
End Date:
31 Dec 1976
Description:
Richard Alfred (Dick) Perry, 1905-1983, proprietor of Perry's Pictures, toured Tasmanian country towns from the 1920s to the 1970s, initially with silent movies, and with sound from 1930.;;His widow donated his collection of cinema posters to the State Library of Tasmania.
Information Sources:
'Credits up - the end', Mercury (Hobart), 17 November 1976, p.1; 'Silent movie exhibitor dies aged 78', Mercury (Hobart), 2 August 1983, p.9; Maurice Hallam, 'The picture man', Tasman Gazette, August 2004, p.11.;;IMDB
Series Created By Agency:
NS4264 Cinema Posters01 Jan 193631 Dec 1958