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The Gold Class Lounge is described SOUTH AUSTRALIA Metro Site Becomes Apartments
as ‘a melding of theatre, art and style,’ GU Hindley Street Closes UniLodge @Metro Adelaide, on the
a design never before seen in Australia. site of the former Metro Hindley Street
Greater Union City Cinemas
Readings Open At Dandenong Hindley Street showed its last films on will soon be home to 430 students. The
The former Village complex, which Saturday 16 September. The Edge new building will comprise 300 one
some predicted would stay shuttered, Church International held their first and two bedroom apartments. It is near
re-opened in August as a six-screen service in Cinema 5 on Sunday 7 two university campuses, an ideal
complex under the Readings banner. September. GU opened the five -screen location for ideally student
complex in 1991. accommodation.
Palace Moves To Digital 3-D
Palace Cinemas equipped one
cinema with Dolby 3-D digital
equipment at both Balwyn and Dendy
Brighton. Palace will charge a $2
premium for 3-D screenings.
Four Village cinemas (Jam
Factory, Southland, Sunshine and
Knox) and two Hoyts (Northland and
Chadstone) also have digital 3-D. All
charge a premium.
Shepparton Cinemas Upgrade
Village 4 at Shepparton has
installed newer projection equipment,
new carpets, and seating, and upgraded
to Dolby Digital sound.
Larger seats for Cinema 1 and
Cinema 2 reduced seating to 134 and
286 respectively.
Kinoton FP30 projectors ex former
Village Dandenong replaced Bauer
U3s. The projectors were also changed
in Cinemas 3 and 4 and digital sound
was installed in Cinemas 1, 3 and 4.
Mansfield Push For New Cinema
The former Mansfield Cinema is
gone, replaced by a Foodland
supermarket, but the idea of a
community cinema has taken hold.
Work to convert a disused squash court
is imminent.
Rex Cinema Joins In Railway
Celebrations
Wycheproof is a town where the
railway line runs up Broadway, the
main street. Steaming Up Broadway
was three days of celebrations 10-12
October, including a steam train
journey from Melbourne to mark the
125th anniversary of the railway.
The celebration was combined with
the 70th anniversary of the Rex at
Charlton, the next town south. The
cinema screened vintage films, hosted a
fancy dress ball and entertained with
‘Jazz at the Rex’.

Palace consolidation. With GU gone, Palace’s two-screen Nova
(top) is the only cinema on Rundle/Hindley Street.
Centre: Map opposite the Nova shows the new entrance (above)
to the enlarged Palace East End Cinemas.

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