[5] He appeared at the Music Hall, Aberdeen on 2 October 1897 in aid of the Powis Clock Fund on a bill which included Scott Skinner.

[6] On 1 January 1900 Paterson was one of the organisers of New Year Festival celebrating the new century at the Music Hall, under the auspices of the Aberdeen Temperance Society, which included cinematograph work by Lizars.

The term elocutionist, in this context refers to one or more persons, with megaphones narrating or voicing characters as the film is played.

They studied the synopsis of the picture and ran it through in the forenoon; then both Dove and his wife stood behind the screen and told the story.

[10]On 14 October 1907 John Sinclair, and animal trainer opened the Winter Zoo in Guild Street, Aberdeen.

[11] Paterson wrote an article for the trade paper Kinematogaph and Lantern Weekly issue on 2 July 1908, "How I Handle Pictures".

I have been a life-long abstainer, and Lady Nicotine claims none of my affections, and it is simply by adherance [sic] to those (some would think minor) details that I have been able to handle the pictures so successfully, and retain the favour and confidence of the public so far."

[14] On 5 September 1908 Paterson opened Aberdeen's first permanent cinema, The Gaiety, in the former Saint Katherine's Hall on Shiprow, between Union Street and Provost Ross's House.

[14] In 1909 Paterson gave a "bioscope exhibition to prisoners in Craiginches Prison, Aberdeen"[15] In 1910 The Torry Skating Rink Syndicate opened its Sinclair Road premises as The Torry Picture Palace with films syndicated from Dove Paterson's Aberdeen Cinematic Bureau.

That same year, Paterson opened his how film theatre, the Beach Bijou, on the sea front, a little south of the Bathing Station.

[17] In late 1911 and 1912 the Music Hall was running Saturday Night Cinema Concerts with cinematographs by Dove Paterson.

[18] By September 1912 Paterson was running cinematograph concerts on Wednesday nights at the Music Hall with "smartly-dressed girls as chocolate sellers.

[20] In late 1913 a film had been made of The Turra Coo, a cow which had been seized for auction in lieu of unpaid National Insurance by a farmer in Turriff.

Paterson "took the film to Turriff for a special show in aid of the Parish Church renovation scheme, and to the Victoria Hall, Ellon, where great cheers and applause greeted the appearance on screen of several well-known farmers.

The following week's Bon Accord Magazine, in its Entertainment column, in an entry for The Gaiety states that "A military episode entitled 'Ransomed, Or A Prisoner of War' tops the Gaiety programme this week.... Mr and Mrs Dove Paterson, fresh from their London Trip, supply the necessary vocal accompaniments in characteristic style'.

His son Leo Paterson assisted him as a cinematograph operator before moving to Glasgow, and a married daughter emigrated to Canada.

[1] He had also raised fund for the Red Cross Society and other war organisations by giving entertainments in rural areas and donating the proceeds.

On Monday 26 June 1916 an Executry Notice appeared in the Aberdeen Press and Journal giving creditors 7 days to lodge claims with Joseph Johnston, Solicitor, 129 Union Street.

[44] The Colliseum, "a finely decorated hall, seated for 900" was offered to let along with the "plant, screen and other equipment, having been taken over by the proprietors" in the Kinematograph Weekly of 9 November 1916.

[45] On 2 February 1917 it was reported that Crighton Villa, the Patersons' home at 47 Powis Terrace had been sold for the upset price of £1000.

[47] An official advertisement by George Duncan, Advocate, Aberdeen who was Paterson's Judicial Factor, indicated that he was about to pay claims on the estate and distribute assets.

[48] In 1986 one of Dove Paterson's tents which he used for "Al Fresco Cinematograph Shows" turned up in an attic in Cruden Bay.