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THEATRE HISTORIES

16. Ozone Mildura Fred Page

17. New Mentone Trevor Walters
18. Victory/National St. Kilda Peter Fogarty

19. Moonee Ponds Theatre Dr. S. Merrifield

20. Southern Cross Essendon Ron Lambert

21 . Union Hall/Paramount Ascot Vale Ted Smith

VICTORIAN NEWS by Bannister & Thomas Vitale

Croydon Extra two screens to open next month
Geelong Nine additional screens will be added to Village Twin Cinema
Geelong Drive-in closed and demolished
Hepburn Springs Palais Theatre restored & opened for dances, movies receptions & conferences
Lilydale Twin due to open
Malvern Seven screen complex at 1127-1143 High Street
Melbourne Dendy Collins Street closed
Morwell Six-plex bounded by Princes Drive. Hoyle, and James Streets
Mulgrave Waverley Gardens Twin to close after a Six-plex opens, on site of old Venture store
North Melbourne Imperial Theatre. 112 Errol Street, now 16 warehouse-style units
Ringwood Two planned, a 12-plex and an 8-plex. Village-Palace & Hoyts are the operators
South Yarra Jam Factory Village 1 0-Piex. Also a 3-plex for Palace at 299 Toorak Road.
Wangaratta Store on the corner of Reid & Ovens Streets to be converted into a Twin Cinema
Yarraville City of Footscray is rumoured to be restoring an old cinema - must be the "Sun"
Village-Palace Village has bought 50% of Palace

Hoyts Plans for 1 00 new movie screens in Au st. over the next 5 years. Currently Hoyts have
23% of the market, audience growth is 16% per year, film makers are turning out record
numbers of movies, film quality is improving, and advertising revenues are strong. Hoyts
will go to the sharemarket later this year and this will enable the extra 100 screens to be
built. Val Morgan executive , Mr. Paul Booth says that under 25's make up more than
50% of the "52. 7 million bums" that graced Australia's movie seats last year.(Age 3!7/94)

ARCHIVES by Gerry Kennedy

Copies of the following photos are needed for the archives. Anyone willing to lend photos for copying will
have them returned promptly. Full care and responsibility will be taken.

Maling Canterbury Capri/ Argosy/Rex Murrumbeena
Gardenvale/Mayfair Gardenvale Plaza Newport
Roxy Sandringham Eclipse Port Melbourne
Paramount Mordialloc Valhalla Richmond
Paramount Oakleigh Royal Windsor
Plaza Momington Anything Rare Anywhere

Also required for copying Copies of Opening Programs, especially those which give full descriptions
of the interior, the Builders and Architects names, and capacities, etc.

Any Spare Kino's If you have any spare copies of Kino that you could donate to the archives
they would be greatfully accepted.

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