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In the Frame

Opposite: CATHS member Edwin Schefferle (Scheff)
celebrated his 80th birthday at the Erwin Rado Theatre,
where he was presented with the Society’s O.B.E
(Over Bloody Eighty) Award by Treasurer, Barrie Wraith
(left).
Scheff has spent a lifetime promoting the public use
of films, video and DVD’s. At the State Film Centre,
Victoria he built up Australia’s largest collection of 16mm
information films, was one of the foundation organisers of
the Melbourne Film Festival, and strongly supported the
Children’s Film Council and Film Society Movement.
Photo: Peter Benn.

Above: Ross King, Gerry Kennedy and Rod Cook
present Marta Fedyczyn, executive secretary of the
Ukrainian Club (the former Hoyts Plaza) with a framed
montage of Essendon theatres, in appreciation for the Club
hosting CATHS’ Essendon at the Pictures.

Above: Peter Wolfenden provided commentary and
projection at the Prahran Mechanics Institute’s Historic
Picture Show at the Swinburne University Prahran Campus.
Eighty people enjoyed a night of films of early Melbourne
and suburbs, Sorrento and Beechworth.
Photo: Christine Worthington.
Above: The annual Wide Screen Weekend at the
National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in
Bradford, England draws a world-wide audience. CATHS’
Eric White is seen here with Bill Lawrence (left) the
Museum’s Head of Film and Howard Rust, the UK’s
foremost promoter of Cinerama. Photo: Wayne Brown.

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