CAARP
Cinema and Audience Research Project

The Cobargo School of Arts Hall was used by travelling picture show companies for the exhibition of film from at least 1900 to 1965.

In 1926 the School of Arts Committee attempted to establish a permanent cinema for the benefit of residents however by June 1930 the venture was disbanded due to poor patronage (Bowles 2007; Coen 2006).

References:
Bowles Kate, 2007, '"All the evidence is Cobargo is slipping"': An Ecological Approach to rural cinema-going, Film Studies, Vol.10, pp87-96

Coen Veronica M. B 2006, Early Cinema at Quaama and Cobargo Schools of Arts: A
Preliminary Analysis of Film Selection, Distribution, Viewing Patterns and Community Cultural Themes, Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong.
http://www.uow.edu.au/content/groups/public/@web/@arts/documents/doc/uow019619.pdf

Hanson, S 2008, ‘“Electrical wonders of the present age”: cinema-going on the Far South Coast of NSW and rural discourses of modernity’, honours thesis, Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong.

Parkinson, R 2010, Picture Shows on the Far South Coast of New South Wales, Robert Parkinson, Sydney.