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Theatre Histories

85. O'Halloran Theatres/Frank O' Halloran- Country Movie Mogul by Gerry Kennedy

86. Gilgandra N.S.W- The Film Theatres of Gilgandra by Gerry Kennedy

87. Bijou Theatrette - Rebuilding by Roger Seccombe

Coming Events For 2000

NOTE: CATHS-V Meetings are now held on the last Sunday in the month.

March 25/26 Second Melbourne Film Buffs Weekend- Cinema tours, swapmeellauction, movies.
March 26 Special matinee and social gathering at the National Theatre. St Kilda -$2 fee.
April I & 2 Annual Weekend Tour to Kyneton. Daylesford. Castlemaine. Bendigo and Maldon.
April 13 Group booking to "The Sound Of Music". Reserved stalls $62- bookings now open.
April 30 CATHS-V Meeting 2 Sun Theatre YarraviUe at 10.00 am.
May27 Early matinee. social visit and film demonstration at the Astor Theatre. no tour. $2 fee.
June 25 CATHS-V Meeting 3 Sun Theatre Yarraville at 10.00 am
July 30 Annual Swapmeet Sun Theatre Yarraville at I 0.00 am
August 27 CATHS-V Meeting 4 Sun Theatre Yarraville at 10.00 am
October 29 CATHS-V Meeting 5 Sun Theatre Yarraville at 10.00 am
Note: Please contact Brian Miller on (03) 9557-7446- to register your interest and help advance planning.

Cumnock Movie Club - "Dress Circle" Magazine:

The title of thrs magazine, ··Dress Circle"'. is a reminder of the days long ago when most cinemas had Front and Back
Stalls downstairs and Dress Circle, Lounge and sometimes The Gods upstairs. This publication, through feature articles.
will relive the experience of those great and not-so-great old picture houses and the golden age of the cinema.

Featured in the first issue of the magazine (August 1999) are two ar1icles, the first about one of NSW's great country
movie houses- The Amusu Theatre at Manildra. and the second article about ScreenSound Australia (formerly known as
the National Film And Sound Archive).

CATHS has a magazine exchange with the Cumnock Movie Club and the editor of Dress Circle has kindly written in
issue 4 about CATHS-Vas follows

"Anyone interested in the history of cinema and theatre in Victoria would find membership of this organi
sation a must. Reading through various issues of CinemaRecord. with photos and text of cinemas in their
heyday. brings back memories of some of the grand old cinemas.

Ar1icles in the CATHS magazine are well documented. Tn the November 1999 issue on page LO was an
article 'The Recollections of a War-Time Lolly Boy' . Those were the days of chocolate and ice cream
displays in adjacent milk bar windows. The Mastercraft chocolates were dummies filled with corTugated
cardboru·d. and the Peters Ice Cream tubs were empty. With the crepe paper streamers and curtains, these
displays were a mouthwatering display to young kids with their thruppeoce to spend at interval.

So there is a wealth of information in CinemaRecord, and it is well worth the $30 membership lO join this
professional but friendly organisation··

There is also information on movie-related stationery, books about movie stars and films, private film collection sales,
and programs for the Cumnock Movie Club. 'Dress Circle' is produced by the Cumnock Tourist Information Centre, P.O.
Box 25, Cumnock NSW 2867. Yearly subscription is $8 for five issues. Contact Ross Adams, Tel: (02) 6367-7468

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