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It certainly does appear that Hoyts Distribution only commenced trading as a fully fledged Australian film distributor in the very late 1970's, circa 1979 when they did become a major distributing force here. They operated as a film distributor over many decades between 1979 and 1994, then in other forms until 2001 when Hoyts being a sole distributor was revived, They then commenced trading as Hoyts Entertainment until 2012 when they were re-branded Studio Canal Australia, 

I will now cover the pre 1979 Hoyts Australian film distribution. I have established that Hoyts imported some product to fill in programming shortages for the bottom part of their major film distributors releases in their cinemas.  

Previously discussed here was the known thirty five PRC and  the five Monogram films that they imported into Australia in the 1940's. It certainly would appear that the aim was to screen them in their cinema chains, What then appeared to have happened is that they then had some or all of this product distributed by Hoyts to be available to non Hoyts cinemas around Australia to be handled physically through a small independent film distributor. The Man Who Walked Alone film which was originally released by Hoyts in 1946 in their cinemas was later shown in Townsville Queensland in 1950. The following newspaper advertisement which was placed for screening there has a credit for being released by National films of Australia. This is the only example of the forty PRC and Monogram films newspaper advertising that I have located that contains an Australian distributor's credit. Not a single daybill or any other size poster size has been found.


 




The 1950's decade of very limited  known Hoyts film distribution in Australia will follow shortly, but does contain three daybill images.