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READING

CINEMAS

Waurn Ponds, Victoria

ocated on the southern edge of
L Victorian rural city of Geelong,
the area known as Waurn Ponds was
little more than a farming
community less that 25 years ago.
Today the area is a fast growing,
vibrant new suburb with the Geelong
Ring Road giving fast access to
other areas of Geelong and onto
Melbourne. As well as the usual
amenities, the suburb contains two
major shopping centres, one of
which is the location of the Reading
Cinemas 8-screen complex.
In keeping with the usual
Reading practice, the cinema
complex is adjacent to the shopping
centre with a separate entrance and
good parking. Cinema One, being the showcase At the conclusion of our visit,
Our meeting place for the start of auditorium offers maximum patron President Gerry Kennedy then
our February Geelong Day was the comfort. The stadium style seating thanked our host, Dick Twentyman
main entrance and foyer of the with good legroom and excellent site for organizing the visit and making
complex. Our group was warmly lines, blended with the high ceilings, himself available for the morning.
welcomed by CATHS Member and art deco themed lighting and maroon He also asked that our thanks be
Reading Projectionist, Dick and gold wall drapes make for a conveyed to manager, Dave Lovell.
Twentyman. very pleasant cinema-going Departing the complex, it was
experience. then off to the CinePix Home
After providing some
Members were then invited to Cinema of Mike and Barb Trickett in
background on the complex,
inspect the other cinemas one by one; Geelong West for a late morning tea,
members were led from the spacious
finally a specially prepared program followed by lunch. With plenty of
foyer, with its unusual curved walls
of 3D advertising and trailers was spare time before the film screening,
and high curved ceilings into the
presented for us to sample the digital members enjoyed the opportunity to
Reading showcase cinema, Cinema
projection facilities. socialize and relax. At the advertised
One. This is the largest of the
Reading auditoria in the complex; its Just as the paying patrons were time of 2.00pm, a musical feature
19-metre screen makes for a very starting to gather in the foyer, we was presented, on 35mm film of
impressive picture. In keeping with were ushered up to the projection course, in Mikes ‘digital free’
Reading practice, the screen is room for a look at the equipment. cinema.
largest when widescreen programs This is a very spacious T-shaped
are shown, the masking coming in area fitted with Kineton FP50D Report by Mike Trickett.
from the top and bottom for projectors and at present, a single Photographs by Jim Barrand.
screening CinemaScope material. digital 3D projector.

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