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Video: Life On the Yarra
ScreenSound Australia has released CORRECTIONS Book Review:
CinemaRecord strives to be accurate Picture Palaces Of Melbourne
Main Stream Melbourne: The River
and will always correct mistakes (CR44, p 30):
Yarra on Film. Footage from more than
pointed out by readers. Availability: The book was
90 films and almost 200 photographs
depict early life on the river. Cinerama At the Plaza available at selected Dymocks outlets
In CinemaRecord 43, page 13 and and some other bookshops, but not
The video includes The Prize
CinemaRecord 44, page 32 the correct from Borders.
(1960), Tim Burstall’s award-winning
size of the Melbourne screen should be Regent: 1. Length of film seasons:
short feature, filmed at a number of
64 feet wide x 23 feet.
Yarra River locations. Best Years of Our Lives, at 11
In ‘Rewind on Cinerama at the weeks, was said to be the longest run
The video is available from
Plaza’ (CR 44, p.13) the George on merit.
ScreenSound Australia, 170 Clarendon
Griffiths of the article was credited as
Street, South Melbourne Vic. 3205 The film lists in the book show that
Hoyt’s Managing Director. The Editor
Phone 03 9685 5800 e-mail: Three Coins In The Fountain, Chitty,
confused father with son. George
Melbourne@screensound.gov.au Chitty, Bang, Bang (both 12 weeks) and
Griffith Jnr. was Hoyts Southern
It costs $29.95. Postage and Bonnie and Clyde (11 weeks), surpass
Division Supervisor, responsible for all
handling is $5.50. and equal Best Years for length of
theatres south of the Murray - Vic., season.
Reporting by: George Florence, Tas., S.A. and W.A. Also, Best Years… screened in
Cameron Hall, Brian Hunt, Ray Peck,
Mike Trickett, Ian Williams, and Croydon Ritz Cinemas 1948, not in 1949.
Eric White. The projectors are Kinoton, not Regent: 2. Split-week seasons.
Kinotron (CR 44 Newsreel p6) In the review, The King and I and
Postcards from Tasmania Carousel were said to be the only
example of a split-week (Thurs.-Sat.,
Reverse the order: the former
Mon.-Wed.) at the Regent. In fact there
National Launceston is now a printing
was a four-day revival of Moulin Rouge
works, the Majestic is the clothing
and a few other films finished on a
store. (CR44 p 28)
Wednesday.
Which Name First?
The My Fair Lady Theatre
became the Palladium. The editor got
it back the front.

‘Reg Jones’ aka Ron Lowe, with his wife Jan, ham it up outside their home cinema to publicise CATHS’ Old Time Matinee at the
Astor Theatre, St.Kilda on 9 October. This photo and an article, ran in the Port Phillip Leader and the Bayside Leader.

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