CAARP
Cinema and Audience Research Project

According to Cunningham (Cunningham, p. 48) the Western first started showing talkies on 5 October 1929.

From 1961-9 the venue was used as a storehouse by the New England Loading Equipment Company.
In 1970, the then owner, Edith Moran, leased the theatre to Mr Alesio who restored it back to a cinema and screened Italian language films. (Cunningham, p. 51)

Film Weekly records the following changes in capacity:
1946/47-1948/49 = 1150
1949/50 - 1951/52 =1135
1953/54 - 1958/59 = 1137

References
Cunningham, L 1995, Frame by frame: a history of Brunswick's picture theatres, Brunswick Community History Group, Victoria.

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. 1946/7-1959/60, 1971.

Film screenings advertised in The Herald until Jan 1960