CAARP
Cinema and Audience Research Project

Travelling picture shows regularly exhibited film in the Eden School of Arts Hall from 1898 until 1926. In that year the hall committee leased the hall to a local consortium of businessmen for the operation of a permanent cinema, under the name of the Excelsior.

The Excelsior operated until 1965 a combination of events namely the deterioration of the building and the consequent need for costly repairs and competition from Eden Fisherman's Club which began to exhibit film on a regular basis.

References:
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.