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CINEMARECORD

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I suppose the most important thing to happen to C.A.T.H.S
Thanks to Roger Seccombe and his extensive article on the in the past few months is the offer of member Mike Smith,
lost Prince George Theatre at Middle Brighten. I knew the owner of the SUN Theatre Y arraville, to make it available to
theatre only slightly as it was well out of my reach in my us for our meetings.
younger days, living at box Hill, and pre my mobility And at the old time of 10:30AM SUNDAYS, it looks like this
vehicle wise! I would however, like to correct a few things is going to be a great year for us.
that Roger mentioned.
We now have a place to call home, one that has all the facilities
I was an assistant manager with Hoyts during that period needed, thanks Mike from us all.
when ZORBA (1964) and 2001 (1968) were released at the
Athenaeum and Plaza Theatres respectively. ZORBA was
not the failure that Roger states, and was certainly not taken On a more serious note.
off after THREE DAYS! From memory, it ran FOUR Some weeks ago someone made a visit to my home,
WEEKS, but ·not trusting memory after thirty five years, I both myself and Marg were out.
have checked newspaper files and the film actually ran Taking advantage of this, the person? had a look around under
THREE weeks. Of course, it took off: box office wise, after the car port, some silly bugger was to trusting,and had left a
the Dendy ran it and deservedly so. box of film out.(it had slipped my mind)
I now do not have this film, it was stolen.
The Athenaeum had dropped its exclusive British policy by The title is CLOCHEMERLE : A French film with English
the early sixties through lack of suitable product. This did sub titles, made in 1948, I can identify the film stock , the
not help a film like ZORBA find its 'right' audience at the police have been notified, I have some thoughts on who it is, a
'Ath'. neighbor remembers seeing a vehicle leave the driveway
around the time. and has given me the details.! would like this
2001! Similar story. Definitely not the flop that a two week film returned, it maybe returned by any means, I will pay
season would suggest. Would you believe THREE AND A postage or freight charges, or pick it up collect, preferably
HALF MONTHS? That would be about FOURTEEN from the EMERALD post office, post code 3782. should it be
WEEKS! Following the gjmmicky Cinerama movies, the returned no further action will be taken.
Plaza suffered a mish mash array of product, (having lost its
'womens weepie' reputation a lot earlier). We thought, Last of all
what's this - 2001, A SPACE ODYSSEY? Sounds more like Thank you for the feed back about the last CINEMA
a statement than a movie which has since achieved cult RECORD, both positive and negative reports are valued
status! True, it was a difficult movie to sell, but most films of it is the only way I can give you what you want.
great artistic quality usually are! I presume that Robert ED.
Ward gave Roger the (incorrect) information, probably to
make his success with these movies at the Dendy look even
better!
NEW SECTIONS!
As for seating capacity of 'city foreign language' movie
houses (Savoy, Curzon & Roma) being 'only one or two
hundred seats', the Savoy was 800, Curzon -previously the
Tatler newsreel- 278, and the Roma - a converted basement FOR SALE·
probably about 100+.

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