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the Capitol Theatre, which will have information on new Category B: Amateur Movies made by other Producers as in
developments, heritage issues, and links to sites such as the definition (iii) below.
CATHS Website Capitol Feature. The RMIT Capitol Theatre
Definitions:
website will have its own domain name, www.capitol etc, and
(i) An Amateur Movie is one which is made exclusively for the
will be online in a few weeks. We'll have more info on this new
site, and Jinks to it, as soon as we know more details. pleasure and challenge. There must not be any profit motive
involved and it must not have been, or intended to be. sold,
By Martin Powell. offered for sale or hire.
(ii) An Amateur Movie Producer is one whose movie-making
Carlton: Nova-Village-Palace activities are purely a leisure-time hobby. Movie production
must not be and must not have been part of the Producer's
Venture work responsibilities.
(iii) Other Movie Producers are persons who derive any part of
The Village-Palace 6 screen multiplex proposed for Carlton has
their income from movie production as part of a production
been cancelled. Instead, Viliage and Palace have bought an
team or as a lone worker. This includes any persons who are
interest in the existing 5 screen Nova Cinema in Lygon Street,
studying any aspect of movie making or movie production
and in a joint development the three partners will operate a
cinema complex in Adelaide. Management of the Nova Cinema in and are intending to derive any part of their income from
Carlton still remains with the original owners, the respective such activity.
proprietors of the Longford cinema and the Valhalla Cinema. For further infonnation contact Harvey Hutchison, PO Box 43, St
Kilda 3182 Victoria Australia. Telephone: (61 3) 9531 4969 or
Dromana Drive-in Website email: hutchison.movie@hotmail.com
The owner Paul has been busy with his website for the Dromana The May Weekend Away
Twin Drive-in. There's a links page and an extensive collection of
photographs of Australian drive-ins - past and present (and a New Thanks to Brian Miller's oganisational skills, another enjoyable
Zealand one too!). Check out the site at: http://drivein.net.au weekend was conducted in the Geelong and Lome areas on 22nd
and 23nd of May. Some 32 members and friends participated.
Melbourne International Film &
The inspection program commenced on Saturday, in Geelong, at
Video Festival the Performing Arts Centre. This was followed by the magnificent
Koska Concert Hall (in the old Wool Stores). The tour then
The Oakleigh Movie Club Inc. is presenting The 32nd Melbourne proceded to Lome, on the coast, where the group were delighted
International Film & Video Festival. Public screenings of movies to see the well maintained, art deco Lome Cinema. From Lome
will be held on July Ist. and 2nd at the Victorian College of the the tour progressed to Torquay ro see the summer screen venue at
Arts, Cinema 2 and on July 8th at the Oakleigh Movie Club.
the Community Centre. Finally the days visitations finished ·at the
The closing date for entry forms and films is Monday 7th June Palais Royal in Geelong.
1999. The Festival is a Class lAJ Festival of the International
Association of Amateur Film & Video Festivals. The Festival is On Sunday the group visited the Geelong Village Multiplex (11
screens) which was housed in and around the former Village
open to all Amateur Movies (definition (i) below) which may be
Twin/Geelong Theatre. The former Pix Theatre (Geelong West)
entered in either of the following two categories:
was the final auditorium to be inspected.
Category A: Amateur Movies made entirely by Amateur The weekend ended with a group barbecue at Mike and Barb
Producers, Definition (ii) below.
Trickett's Geelong home.

And now some items from across the Tasman by New Zealand member

Allan Webb

Warning given to cinema Distributors Association, Timothy Ord, to warn that developers
may be getting carried away with their plans for dozens more
builders cinema complexes in the main centres.
A move towards multiplexes has seen the number of cinema
By KARYN SCHERER screens more than double in New Zealand since 1991, to more
than 300.
NZ herald 1511199
Mr Ord says New Zealand is now only second to the United
New Zealanders' love affai.r with the movies appears be waning. States in screens per head of population.
After nearly a decade of double-digit growth movie sales were up He says there are already enough cinemas "in all New Zealand
by only 2 per cent last year, thanks mostly to the success of cities and country towns of any importance".
Titanic The Cameron Diaz-Matt Dillon farce There's Something
Shopping-mall owner Westfield last year mooted the possibility
About Mary also provided a huge boost to sales, but without
of building more than 40 new screens at five of its shopping
Titanic admissions might have sunk for the first tin1e in at least
eight years. centres throughout the country over the next two years.
Its plans include a four-screen multiplex on the roof of North
The trend has prompted the president of the Motion Pictures
Shore's Shore City Galleria- a development that will pit it

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