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Cygnet Cinema aka Como Theatre
1938, 16 Preston Street, Como, W.A.
The Cygnet was built for entrepreneur James Stiles to a design by William Leighton.
References and Links
Bell, Max D. 1986, Perth: A Cinema History, Book Guild, Sussex: 20.
Geneve, Vyonne 1988, 'William Thomas Leighton: cinema architect of the 1930s', in David Bromfield ed., Essays on Art and Architecture in Western Australia, UWA Press: 12–21.
Geneve, Vyonne 1990, 'Obituary: William Thomas Leighton', in The Architect, vol. 30, no. 2, Winter: 7.
Geneve, Vyonne 1990, 'William Thomas Leighton', West Australian, 14 March 1990.
Geneve, Vyonne & Ron Facius 2016, Picture Palaces of the Golden West, National Trust of Australia: 24-25.
Jamet, Delphine 2023, Cygnet, streetkidindustries.
Wikipedia page for this building.
Wikipedia page for its architect, William Leighton.
CinemaTreasures page.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 26 November, 2023 and hosted at freotopia.org/cinemas/cygnet.html (it was last updated on 26 November, 2023), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.