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Managers of the Westgarth Theatre
Michael Yiannoudes, left, and Michael
Protopapa. Photo: Martin Powell.

Free Film Festival was posted on the
CATHS website. The CATHS website
address was also included in four of the
The invitation card
Westgarth’s display ads in The Age
for the official opening of the Westgarth
newspaper.
Theatre featured gold lettering on thick, gold-edged card.
• A slide — which opens the screen
presentation at each session:
“Congratulations to The Westgarth
Theatre On Your 80th Anniversary facilities; an ideal plant for
from the Cinema And Theatre film
Historical Society”. Another slide small operators.
promoting CATHS will screen from the fablesfact
beginning of 2002. Bert Watts of CINESOUND
Thanks to members: Cameron Hall, & fiction… MASTERTONE manufactured
Martin Powell, Kevin Adams, Brian an integrated system and later
Miller, Gerry Kennedy, Bernie Stories from
Halperin, Adrian Maiolla, David Australia’s film production went onto develop a sound-on-
Kilderry, John Brown and Paul and exhibition industry film recording system for use
Michelle (also of Northcote Historical Compiled by Peter Wolfenden in radio broadcast stations
and Conservation Society). Thanks also such as 2UE Sydney.
to the Westgarth Theatre’s management
and staff with whom we have worked
so cooperatively. ★ In the early days of motion In Melbourne the AUSTRAL
pictures, a number of game ARGO ENGINEERING
Australians attempted to break COMPANY manufactured
The
The
Westgarth Theatre into the market associated with replacement component parts
Westgarth Theatre
including sprockets, aperture
the supply of projection
equipment. In the early silent plates and rollers. They also
days people such as Stephen manufactured sound heads
Bond manufactured a small which could be retro-fitted to
1921~2001 when Talkies arrived, a further an integral unit fitted to a
number of machines, however, silent machines or supplied as

pedestal
stand
which
challenge appeared.
up spool box. This was
Many enlightened individuals incorporated a 2000 foot take-
contributed to the early sound advertised as costing 65
days in Australia, at times Pounds in 1935 — just the
much to the chagrin of system to convert your silent
80th Anniversary
80th Anniversary
Commemoration Magazine
Commemoration Magazine overseas multi-nationals! Ray cinema into a modern talkies
theatre!
Alsop of Sydney produced the
RACO-PHONE system as an
economical sound projector Radio Monthly, December 1933
The 32 page commemorative AUSTRAL ARGO brochure, September
magazine produced for the available with optional slide 1935.
Westgarth’s 80th Anniversary.
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