CAARP
Cinema and Audience Research Project

Listed in the Herald as the Ascot until 1968 and in the Film Weekly motion picture directory until 1968/9. Listed in the 1970 and 71 Film Weekly directory as Cinema Colosseo.

Advertised in Il Globo on December 10, 1968, p. 16 - Opening for Cinema Colosseo also announced on December 20, 1968.

Film Weekly records the following changes in capacity:
1946/47-1957/58 = 1525
1958/59-1961/62 = 1425
1962/63-1966/67 = 1120
1967/68-1971 = 1392

References
Cinema & Theatre Historical Society 1997, Cinema index : Melbourne cinemas, suburban cinemas, Victorian drive-ins. CATHS, Victoria.

Film Weekly, Film Weekly: motion picture directory, Film Weekly, Sydney, 1946/7-1971
Aldous, 'The stop over that stayed- a history of Essendon', pp.87-89.

'New Ascot theatre', The Argus, 16 October 1924, p. 9.
- "The new Ascot Theatre, In Union road, Ascot Vale, was privately opened last night. It was built by Essendon Theatres Limited at a cost of £24.000"

201 Union Rd, Ascot Vale