CAARP
Cinema and Audience Research Project

Film Weekly records the following changes in capacity:
1946/47-1948/49 = 1293
1949/50-1961/62 = 1343
1962/63-1966/67 = 1268
1968/69-1969/70 = 1126

Screenings listings for Hoyts Elsternwick in the Herald from 1965-1973.

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

The Argus 1924, "To-Day's Entertainments", 5 July 1924, p. 32
-refers to screening of Slippy Mc Gee at Elsternwick Renown Theatre. This suggests the Renown was operating as a picture theatre at an earlier date.