CinemaRecord, our quarterly magazine contains a good mix of articles, which includes cinema histories, industry personalities, technical items, as well as photographs of theatres of the past. Each edition has a Newsreel section, which contains information on the latest happenings in the industry.

Index of CinemaRecord articles - Issue 101 - Current.

ISSUES 101 - 110 are available to read here - click on the cover image.

ISSUE 101

• Greek Cinema in Victoria - a follow up
• It’s a Wonderful Life Part 2
• At the Pictures in Darwin
• From the Past
• Eddie Vormister - Centenarian Cinema Serviceman
• Capitol Theatre, Perth
• Theatres of Ulverston, Tas.
• The Roxy, Townsville
• Effects of the Spanish Flu Pandemic
• 70 Years at the Flickers
• Exhibition Theatre Geelong
• You’ll be Happier in your Hoyts Suburban Theatre
• Greek Films in New Zealand - 60 Years On …
• Palace of Dreams
• From Singles to Doubles

ISSUE102

• Watch it! You Never Know Who’s Looking
• Tearjerker End for Cinema Epic - The Mosman Kings
• The Prince George Theatre, Brighton Vic.
• It’s a Wonderful Life - Part 3
• Adelaide’s Pavilion / Rex
• A Visit to Our Regent
• The Maldon “Orient Express”
• The Screen News
• His Majesty’s Theatre, Hobart
• Pathécolor - The 100+ Year Old Colour Process
• Eddie Vormister Home Movies - WWII Style (part 2)
• The Silver Screen - the Reardon Theatre, Port Fairy
• Rupert Foyle and the Defoy Sound System
• Lyric Prahran: Melbourne’s First Suburban Theatre
• CATHS Activities - Vic and Qld
• Save the Roxy .

ISSUE 103

• Broken Hill’s Tivoli
• Olympia Theatre Riverstone
• The Capitol Te Puke
• When the Kellys Rode
• A Part Time Projectionist
• Brisbane Arts Theatre
• Shepparton’s Lyric and Capri Theatres
• Some Blasts From the Past
• Suncorp Theatre, Brisbane
• Vaudeville - You Lucky People
• State Theatre, Sydney
• Beaufort Theatre
• Promoting the Pictures
• Geelong’s Cinema by the Sea - The Joy Arc

ISSUE 104

• CATHS 30th Anniversary 1989 - 2019
• The Theatres of Glen Innes
• The Rialto, Kew
• Movies on Wheels
• A Giant in the Suburbs
• Mount Vic Flicks
• A Bundaberg Evolution
• David Wayside and the Mayfair Cinema
• The Travelling Picture Show Man at Yongala
• The Minerva Theatre, Kings Cross (Part 1)
• Theatres of Devonport
• Hoyts Albury - Another Look at an Old Favourite
• “P” is for Picture Bus
• CATHS visit to the Capitol Theatre

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ISSUE 105

• A Life in Projection
• Eclipse Theatre Deepwater and Carl Wilhelm Baer
• My Life in Cinema                        
• Back in the Day
• The Cairo: St Kilda’s Short-lived Show
• The GUO Film Exchange, Melbourne
• The Theatre Cowra
• The Minerva Theatre Kings Cross - Part 2
• The Theatres of Victoria Park
• The Theatre Royal, Geelong
• The Travelling Picture show
• Casterton Town Hall (Regal Theatre)
• Camden Theatre Hidden and in Plain Sight
• Moe’s first Cinema
• Altona Picture Theatre
• Projection Bloopers  

ISSUE 106

• So You Want to Build a Drive-in
• Pictures at the Port
• Townsville’s Olympia Open Air Theatre
• Home Talent: Australia’s Itinerant Filmmakers
• A Career in Cinema
• Prince Regent Theatre, Hamilton, Victoria
• The Plaza Theatre, Chelsea  
• Mudgee: The Theatre that Never Was
• Robert Alexander Hamilton
• South Street Society’s Coliseum Picture Palace
• Prince Regent Theatre, Sale, Victoria
• The Odeon Star Turns 100
• The Kings Cross Minerva (Part 3)
• The Fairsky Drive-in, Moe
• One Shilling Would Buy a Ticket

ISSUE 107

• Majestic Theatre, Melbourne (Part 1)
• The Spool Boy
• The Theatre Royal, Ballarat
• Chelsea Theatre, Marryatville
• My Love Affair with the Chelsea
• The Burwood Drive-in
• Frank Van Straten, My Fortunate Life (Part 1)
• The Coming of Sound
• The Cinema Church
• The Powers That Be
• Film Distribution in Australia
• Gem Pictures – Travelling Picture Show
• The Padua Theatre, Brunswick (display)

ISSUE 108

• Geelong West – A Cinema in a Park
• Theatre Royal, Castlemaine
• Majestic Theatre Melbourne - Part Two
• Frank Van Straten – My fortunate Life - Chapter 2
• 3D at the Movies
• Drive-in Theatres of Ballarat
• The Palace / Mayfair / Odeon - Palmerston North, NZ
• Ararat Drill Hall / Alexander Community Centre
• Grand Designers: Cowper, Murphy and Appleford
• Cinema Personalities: Arthur Kishere
• The Heart of the Movies
• New Screen News Magazine

ISSUE 109

• Pictures at St Peters
• Jack Scott the Giant Slayer
• The Menora Picture Gardens
• The Art of Art Deco
• Frank Van Straten My fortunate Life. Part 3
• The Stage Turns Under History’s Spotlight
• My Life in Cinema
• The Best by Test: Ramsgate - Sans Souci Theatre
• The Sun Theatre, Geelong
• The Mouse The Roared - The Orion Canley Heights
• The Theatres of Red Cliffs
• All Aboard The Moving Picture Train
• Hoyts Plaza Theatre, Ballarat
• Reimagined: 70 mm Cinema in Melbourne

ISSUE 110

• The Legacy of the Regent South Yarra
• The Watermans and the Ozone Theatre Story
• The Empire Theatre, Brunswick
• Pictures at Cobden, Vic
• Stolen: One Picture Theatre
• The Theatres of Morwell, Vic
• The World’s First Feature Length Film
• Interview: Bruce Corneil chats to Peter Smith OAM
• Those Great Old Tivoli Shows
• The Wendouree Centre For The Performing Arts
• Filmed in Technovision
• Armadale hall, WA
• Advertising From the Past - Drive-in Theatres

ISSUE 111

• Newsreel  
• Letters  
• The Beginnings of Cinema in Melbourme  
• Tweed Heads & Coolangatta  
• Melbourne Cinema Centre
• Regent Theatre, Albany WA  
• The Tivoli – Christchurch  
• Theatres of Numurkah, Vic  
• Celebrating 100 Years - Majestic Pomona, Qld
• Australian Drive-in Theatres  
• First Impressions in Terrazzo  
• CinemaScope Advertising

ISSUE 112

• The Beginnings of Cinema in Melbourne (part 2)
• The Theatres of Bathurst, NSW
• 25 Years before Cinerama  
• Pictures at Orbost, Vic
• New Theatre / Liberty, Rockhampton, Qld  
• Pictures at Greensborough, Vic
• Embassy / Metro Cinema Malvern, Vic
• A Remembrance of Theatres Past  
• Protests and Objections to Cinemas and Films
• Murwillumbah’s Early Cinemas (to 1945)

ISSUE 113

• By the Light of the Silvery Screen
• 283 Bourke Street, Melbourne
• Vale - Fred Page
• Best on the Block - The Empress Prahran
• A Magnificent Obsession - Vic Basham Cinema Pioneer
• The Astor Ararat - Cinema of Distinction
• The Palais Theatre - Sale, Victoria
• The Glover Family of Sale, Victoria
• Sculthorpe Pictures and the Guild Hall, Melbourne
• Projection Bloopers
• The Photoplayer Magazine
• Paddington: The Olympia, Pallas. Mandala, Academy
• Ghostly Events

ISSUE 114

• The Star - Dan Clifford
• 7 Keys and the Rivoli Theatre, Sydney
• Pictures in South Townsville
• The Paramount / Regent Theatre Mordialloc
• Behind the Screens
• The Cameo Cinema - Belgrave Vic.
• Sydney’s Randwick Ritz Celebrating 85 Years
• Theatres of Barcaldine Qld
• The Invincible Theatres of Cunnamulla Qld
• Wintergarden Theatre Rockhampton
• Ararat, Vic. Town Hall Pictures

ISSUE 115

• British Empire Films - A Long Way to the Top
• Before the Silver Screen
• The Paramount / Regent Theatre, Mordialloc, Vic.
• Tales from a Country Exhibitor
• Southport, Queensland
• Puttin’ up the Ritz (part 1)
• Tolofa Samoa! Good Morning Samoa
• Theatres and the Chief Secretary’s Department
• Early Ambush Marketing - The Redex Trial
• Star Newsreel Theatrette, Melbourne
• Theatres of Babinda, Queensland
• Murray Bridge Drive-in, South Australia

ISSUE 116

• The Film Venues of Donald
• The Paramount / Regent Mordialloc (part 3)
• The Pictures at Montmorency, Vic
• Diverse Expression: Integrated Edifice
• Puttin’ up the Ritz (part 2)
• Gone and Forgotten: The Seddon Theatre
• A War-Time Projectionist in New Guinea
• A Lady of Style and Elegance
• A Typical Working Day in the Life of a Projectionist
• Norwood SA: Star Theatre / Odeon Star Theatre
• Reflections - Electra Cinema, Boronia, Vic
• Rockhampton: Earl’s Court / City Centre / Southside
• From the Archive: The Early Days in the Bio Box

ISSUE 117

• The Theatres of Bowen, Qld (Part 1)
• Wellington’s Cinerama Theatre
• The Warragul Theatre, Warragul, Vic
• The Liberty Theatre, Leura, NSW
• Otto Camphin “Czar of the Blue Mountains”
• Puttin’ up the Ritz (part 3)
• The Journey of a Girl in the Cinema Industry
• The Casterton Theatre, Vic
• The Picture Man’s Kid
• The Plaza Theatre, Coonamble, NSW
• Victoria Hall, Colac, Vic
• Music and the Movies
• Opening of the Rivoli Theatre, Camberwell, Vic 1940

ISSUE 118

• Editorial - Writing for CinemaRecord
• The Waterman’s Theatres in Broken Hill
• The Squire of Robe
• Memories of Newport
• A Field Trip to Western Victoria and SA
• Bridgeway Theatre, Northcote, New Zealand
• The Cinemas of Nelson Bay
• Theatres of Bowen, QLD (Part 2)
• The Evolution of Cinema Air Conditioning
• The Technical Aspects of Film Presentation

ISSUE 119

• Benalla’s Intriguing Cinema History (Part 1)
• (Almost) a Drive-in for Dunolly
• A Cinema Pioneer Forgotten
• Films at the Melbourne Town Hall
• The Story of a Little Known Cinema Pioneer
• The National Theatre, St. Kilda, Revisited
• Come As You Are
• Victory Theatre - Kogarah NSW
• The Loco, North Melbourne
• A Room Called Rado
• The Palais Royal Geelong Revisited

ISSUE 120

• Around Ballina - Cinemas Past and Present
• Cinema of South Auckland
• Only One Austral - Collingwood’s Unique Cinema
• Princess Open Air and Pathe Frere Pictures
• Reel-Ism
• 70 Years of CinemaScope
• Theatres of Gordonvale, Queensland
• Rex Theatre - North Rockhampton
• Memories of Stage Lighting Operation
• Benalla’s Intriguing Cinema History (Part 2)
• Projection Room Bloopers
• Christmas Advertising

ISSUE 122

• Letters / Newsreel
• Magnificence Lost - Perth’s Capitol
• His Majesty’s Theatre Hobart
• Adelaide Hills Memories
• Saturday Night in the City
• CATHS Visits the new Penny Lane Complex
• Murray Bridge - the Lyric 100 Years Ago
• A Visit to Tom and Jerry at MGM
• Coffs Harbour Jetty Memorial Theatre
• One Hundred Years of 16mm
• Censored - Stories of Censorship in Australia ..…

ISSUE 121

• Letters / Newsreel
• Bendigo’s Lyceum Theatre
• Northcote and Preston’s High Street Cinemas
• The Ireland Family Theatres
• CinemaRecord - Celebrating 30 Years of Publication
• Winter Garden Theatre / Shirley Burke Theatre
• Film Distribution and Promotion in New Zealand
• Burleigh Heads Deluxe Theatre
• In The Mood: Incidental Music at the Movies
• More About Mood
• The First of the Blockbusters

ISSUE 123

• Letters / Newsreel
• Out of Step with the Times
• The Capitol Theatre, Warrnambool, Revisited
• Entertainment Venues of Hillgrove, NSW
• Follow the Fox
• Gary Gutschlag and Dunedin’s Cinemas
• Geelong’s GAMA Theatre
• Movies at the Mechanics
• Paradise on Glebe Point Road, Glebe NSW
• Picture Theatres and Showmen of the NSW Southern Highlands

ISSUE 124

• Letters and Newsreel
• Melbourne’s Capitol Theatre: A Centenary Tribute
• Hollywood by the Clarence
• 120+ Years of Music Halls, Theatre and Cinemas
• The Homebush Vogue Cinema
• Southern Cross Theatre, Narromine 2
• Ghostly Events
• The Changing Fortunes of Newsreel Theatres
• Theatres and Showmen of NSW Southern Highlands
• Hollywood on Wheels