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Right: The Forum
projection room, early
1980s. Cinemeccanica
Victoria X (10) 70/35
projectors with a
Cinemeccanica slide
projector in the foreground.
The shorts are threaded up
ready to run and could just
as easily include an English
comedy or roller
skating thrills.

Right: Russell Cinemas,
designed by Ron
Monsborough and opened in
1978 displaced the
Forum/Rapallo as the GU
show-centre of Melbourne.
The building shows the 1981
updated corporate signage.

Right: Cinemeccanica
Victoria 8 70/35 dual
projectors serving the
Russell Cinema’s Auditorium
6. About 40 minutes of
shorts, ads and trailers are
threaded on the near
machine. These projectors
were trialled at the Chelsea
in Flinders Street with a
season of 2001: A Space
Odyssey before moving them
to Russell Street in 1978.

These images of Greater
Union theatres are from the
author’s collection.
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