Seating capacity: about 500
Address: 78 Shek Yam Road, Kwai Chung, New Territories, Hong Kong. The streeet number is estimated by Google street view. The site, next to a small park, is now occupied by shops at ground level and Wing On Seniors Care Centre (私營安老院) according to Google street view and the Wikipedia source.
Address: Section 12, Rennie's Mill, Kowloon, Hong Kong. This address is no longer applicable. Gwulo has these pages on Rennie's Mill:
https://gwulo.com/atom/16908 ; https://gwulo.com/node/17778#15/22.3041/114.2504/Map_by_ESRI-Markers/100
Yik Chi Theatre was located in a former refugee camp for the Nationalist Army and refugess from Mainland China, the site later became a housing estate.
Please ignore the location marker shown on this map.
The official, or even the non-offical English name of the theatre is not avaiable, nor its operating period. The existence of the theatre came to light following an article in a local Chineser Kung Sheung Daily News in 1952.
Only the English name is available from the source Cinema Treasures which explains it corresponding to the Cantonese pronunciation of the theatre's name. My reverse-translation arrived at 余樂戲院.
Cinemas in Hong Kong come and go to keep pace with the ever changing urban landscape, viewer choice and technology. Some operated for decades, while others for a few years or only a few months, some demolished and new one built, some with dozen seats while some have 2,000 seats, some renovated and re-named. Everyone of them generated warm memories to be cherished by their patrons.
Seating capacity: unknown. Address: Des Voeux Road Central, Central, Hong Kong. Hang Seng Bank Head Office is the current occupant at the site located on the northeast corner of Des Voeux Road Central and Queen Victoria Street intersection.
Seating capacity: unknown. Address: Des Voeux Road Central, Central, Hong Kong.
Victoria Cinematograph was the predecessor of Victoria Theatre at the same site. Wing On House is the current occupant at the site
Victoria Ciematograph opened to business on November 1, 1907, and closed sometime in 1910. For the purpose of this page, the closing date is estimated to be July 1910.
Seating capacity: 4 screens, total 1,142.
Address: 20 Tat Tung Road, Tung Chung, Lantau Island, Hong Kong
UA-Citygate Cinema operated during the period December 2000 - September 18, 2016. [Edit: November 7, 2018: Please see update provided by reader in the discussion section below.]
Seating capacity: unknown.
Addressing: Taikoo Dockyard, Quarry Bay Hong Kong. Taikoo Dockyard was closed in 1972 to make way for the development of Taikoo Shing a private housing development. The location marker on this map is approximate.
Taikoo Theatre was a private theatre serving the dock workers and families at reduced price but also opened to the public. Available information collected by Cinema Treasures shows that it was operating in the 1950s., but its opening date and closing date are unknown.
Sitting capacity: unknown
