CAARP
Cinema and Audience Research Project

The Village theatre closed in 1958. In 1963 a fire destroyed the original buillding. The Trak cinema opened in 1969, incorporated into the basement of the new building. It became known as a arthouse cinema. Closed in 2001. Still used for the occasional screenings

"The Village became an early casualty of television in Melbourne and the phenomenon of the Drive In. It closed after screening the Bolshoi Ballet on 31 December 1958." (Kennedy, p. 20)

Venue: Screening Policy
Despite the name, it never had any connection to Village Theatres or Village/Warner.

References
Brown, D 1996, 'Viewing the big picture', Malvern Prahran Leader, 6 March.

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

Film Weekly (2 October 1969, p. 1.) announces gala opening

Film Weekly (9 October 1969, pp. 1., 7., 8.) reports on the opening of Trak.

Film Weekly, Film Weekly: motion picture directory, Film Weekly, Sydney. 1969/70-1971

Film screenings advertised in The Herald from 1969-81

Kennedy, G 2002 'Village Theatre Toorak' CinemaRecord Cinema and Theatre Historical Society. no. 39, pp.16-21

Tennison, P 1962, 'Her Dream... in Debris', The Sun, 19 April, p.15

The Sun 1961, 'National Theater buys a "home"', 3 February, p.3

The Sun 1962, 'New theater from ashes of old one', 17 December, p.13
-the building of the Australian National Memorial Theater on the site of the burnt-out Village Theater

Ziffer, D 2005, 'Nightclub to usher in new era at Trak', The Age, 30 September.

'Theatre gets new 'home, 1962(?)- Bertrand, I, Cinema file: Toorak'' (unpublished research.