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MELBOURNE: Originally opened as
the Alexandra Theatre, and rebuilt in the
1930s after a disastrous fire, the historic
Her Majesty’s Theatre in Exhibition Street
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celebrated its 125 Birthday in October.
WONTHAGGI: Wonthaggi Cinema
converted to digital projection on December
15. The upgrade also included new Kris
speakers throughout.
QUEENSLAND: NEW ZEALAND:

MALENY: 35mm projection ceased in HORNBY: After 20 years in operation CATHS awarded Federal
October as the rejuvenation of the (1955) the Movieland Cinema closed on the
Community Centre continues. Removal 18 November. Demolition will allow for Community Heritage Grant
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of asbestos; recladding of the hall and expansion of the shopping centre.
backstage extensions have already been The Cinema & Theatre Historical Society
completed and further upgrading will CHRISTCHURCH: Closed since the (CATHS); the Mechanics’ Institutes of
involve hall ventilation, lighting and seating earthquake, the Reading 8 Cinemas at Victoria (MIV) and the Australian Railway
and rebuilding of the two-storey frontage the Palms Shopping Centre reopened on Historical Society (Vic.) have been awarded
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including entrance, projection-room and November 16 with the World Premiere of a total of $6957 of a federal Community
veranda. When a City Falls - an intimate documentary Heritage Grant to fund cataloguing of their
which follows the lives of Christchurch collections. The three groups all house their
LOGANHOLME: A giant “HyperMax” residents in the immediate aftermath of the collections in the Victorian History Library
megascreen has been installed at the February earthquake. at the Prahran Mechanics’ Institute.
Hyperplex 12 Cinemas and opened on
November 17 with the release of the film BOWICK: Bridgeway are expected to open their The grant was announced at the National
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Twilight: Breaking Dawn - Part One. new 5-screen complex in time for Christmas. Library of Australia in Canberra, on
November 8, 2011. This year, grants worth
HAWERA: The City Council says this $408,000 have been distributed to 82
venue will close if business does not pick up community groups and organisations from
over the Christmas period. around Australia to assist in the identification
and preservation of community owned but
PUKEKOHUE: A Fijian businessman nationally significant heritage collections.
with NZ interests will open a new 3-screen
complex in December that will be The grant money is used for significance
capable of handling both film and digital assessments, preservation needs assessments,
projection formats. conservation treatments, preservation
training, digitisation, and purchasing
WELLINGTON: The two (digital
BRISBANE: Tribal Cinemas management projection) 70-seat art-house cinemas in the quality storage materials or environmental
exited on November 25 at the end of the Embassy Theatre opened on December 8. monitoring equipment.
Brisbane Film Festival, however there has Situated in an Event Cinemas venue, they
been interest shown from new exhibitors to will be operated under the Rialto umbrella. CATHS President, Gerry Kennedy also
take over. attended a three-day intensive preservation
and collection management workshop
AHURIRI: A 39-seat DVD theatrette called
BRISBANE: The auditorium of the Regent the Globe has opened to good attendances held at the National Library, the National
Theatre has been progressively demolished in the Crown Hotel. Other hotels are now Archives of Australia, the National Museum
since July to enable the construction of a looking to follow suit. of Australia and the National Film and Sound
high-rise office tower that will utilise the Archive in Canberra.
heritage-listed theatre foyer - the only section WELLINGTON: Reading Cinemas are
of the 1929 building that will remain. installing the first Titan XC screen. It covers Mr Kennedy said the grant was important in
supporting the effort to preserve and provide
an area of almost 200-square metres and access to the unique collections of these
is three storeys high with a bigger, clearer three groups at the grassroots level. “While
picture and louder sound. the grant provides the funds, the workshop
offered the expertise to help us protect our
HAMILTON: The huge Event Cinemas collections and make them accessible in the
complex at Centre Place is to close due to future,” he said
disastrous trading since Hoyts opened their
6-screen complex The Base in August. Director-General of the National Library of
Australia, Ms Anne-Marie Schwirtlich, said
Newsreel Contibutors: David Lascelles, Ian the CHG program showed the commitment
Williams, Crosley Carpenter, Stephen Jones, by the National Library, along with its partner
Gordon Turnbull, Kevin Adams, Colin Flint,
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Photo by Steve Malone. R institutions and the Federal Government,
Roderick Smith, Gerry Kennedy, Steve Maggs,
R in encouraging communities to care for the
Robert Taylor, Steve Malone, Brian Pearson,
Pete Smith, David Kilderry, Kay Branton
NATIONAL: P nation’s heritage.
and many others…
20 Century Fox will cease distribution “It is all about working together to
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help spread the message that if we
of 35mm prints of their movies starting in Please send any news snippets to the don’t preserve our history now, it could
editor - your contribution will be most
2012 in Hong Kong and Macau. Digital only welcome and much appreciated. be lost forever.”
distribution is on its way! Email: cinemarecord@hotmail.com
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