5/27/1-1934-47-Xerox copies, press cuttings, extracts from scrap books kept by Walter Hinks, manager New Alexandra Picture House, Paisley, concerning publicity stunts, special charity events and publicity for the cinema, including:

May 1934 Egg Matinee in aid of Royal Infirmary

July 1934 Film made of Sma` Shot Day

July 1935 As above

Nov 1935 Benefit matinee St Mirren Supporters Club

Aug 1947 Personal appearance of Vivian Blaine, film star

5/27/2-1933-Xerox copies from scrapbooks kept by Walter Hinks relating to "Exploitation Campaigns" mounted for the New Alexandra Picture House, Paisley, including:

c1933 Press interview with Hinks

April 1933 THE OLD DARK HOUSE, patron sits alone through midnight screening of horror film to win prize

June 1933 THE MUMMY - Egyptian mummy brought to Paisley

Oct 1933 Lion and lion tamer in Paisley for THE BIG CAGE

5/27/3-MAY 1934-Photograph of the Egg Matinee, Walter Hinks hands over some of the 3000 eggs collected to Bailie Ballantyne, plus neg

5/27/4-July 1934-Photo Sma` Shot outing to Braemar, plus neg

5/27/5-July 1934-Photo Sma` Shot excursionists and Walter Hinks posing for camera, plus neg

5/27/6-April 1933-Photo of publicity stunt for THE OLD DARK HOUSE. Patron Agnes Fleming sitting alone in cinema for midnight screening, plus neg

5/27/7-June 1933-Photos of exterior of cinema with poster display and an "Egyptian Mummy", publicity stunt for THE MUMMY, plus neg

5/27/8-14 July 1933-Photo of publicity stunt for LAUGHTER IN HELL on street outside cinema, plus neg

5/27/9-Sept 1933-Photo. Special performance of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT at New Alexandra with troops lined up outside the cinema. Plus neg

5/27/10-1933-Photo of usherette as Maureen O`Sullivan in publicity stunt for THE COHENS AND THE KELLYS IN TROUBLE plus neg

5/27/11-1933-Photo of publicity stunt for SO THIS IS AFRICA at the New Alexandra plus neg

5/27/12-c1933-Photo of exterior of New Alex Picture House, Paisley, showing NIGHT FLIGHT plus neg

5/27/13-c1935-Photo. Exterior of Cambridge Cinema, Glasgow, at night. Plus neg

5/27/14-1929-1999-TS Notes. Andrew Potter, former patron and projectionist at the New Alex Cinema recalls the cinema, Hinks publicity stunts and recounts the background to the making of the film PAISLEY CHILDREN`S HAPPY HUNTING GROUND, including identification of individuals in the film, one of whom was killed in the Glen Cinema Disaster Dec 1929

5/27/15-June 2000-MS notes supplied by Hinks` daughter on her father`s birth and death dates and brief synopsis of his career