ISS.50 - Edition 1 - 2006

4 Letters

5 Newsreel, Obituaries

6 CATHS VISITS NEW ZEALAND
Last November 23 CATHS members attended the NZ Film Buffs Bi-Annual Weekend in Christchurch, then continued on to explore South Island theatres. The Report includes an analysis of theatre styles through Australian eyes.

12 RANKING REGENTS
Authors Brian Pearson and John Thiele discuss the best and lesser features of each of the Hoyts-Williamson family of Regent Theatres in the capital cities of Australia. The article emphasises the merits of the Regent Adelaide.

20 THE REGENT GEELONG
Beating the opening of any Melbourne Regent by a few years, the Regent Geelong introduced the concept of linking superior design to the name Regent. Mike Trickett discusses the building and its history.

26 THE CLASSICAL LEGACY: THEATRE IN ANCIENT GREECE
Cameron hall explains the west's debt to ancient playrights and their architects.

32 THE MAN FROM PARAMOUNT
In 1948 Paramount International Theaters sent Clement Crystal to report on their Australian operations. His report to a Conference of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers is reprinted with some analysis of its content.

36 Colour Sense

ISS.51 - Edition 2 - 2006

Page 4 Letters, Newsreel
Main Item - CATHS Visits Village Twin Cinemas, Doncaster Shopping Town on Sunday 28 May 2006

Page 6 Selected Short Subjects
David Kilderry discusses the rise and fall of the supporting program as it played out in Melbourne's city cinemas.

Page 10 Memoirs of a Film Distributor
Peter Broome rose to the top at Twentieth Century Fox (Sydney).
'From Publicity to Film Booker' is the first installment of his life story.

Page 13 Movies On the Move
A railway carriage could be a useful cinema car for wayside stops, but did long distance expresses actually screen films in transit? This article answers the question.

Page 16 Theatre Rivals of Camberwell
Henry Holland opened the first picture theatre at the Camberwell Junction (Melbourne), but Robert McLeish, eclipsed those first efforts with the Rivoli theatres.

Page 22 Rivoli to Broadway.
Bernie Turner, who began as an assistant projectionist at the first Rivoli in 1923 tells of those early days.

Page 23 Book Review
J. P. McGowan, an Australian who led an adventurous life, went to Hollywood and became a pioneer director of action films.

Page 24 Reels Across The City
In Part One Brian Miller discusses the weekly release pattern in Hoyts Suburban Theatres in the 1950s.

Page 30 Hot Oil and Carbon Ash
Ross King identifies the projectors in the Regent Adelaide c. 1940, with some digressions along the way.

ISS.52 - Edition 3 - 2006

Page 4 Letters, Newsreel

Page 6 T. J.West: Australia's Biggest Film Exhibitor? - Peter Wolfenden
Showman T. J.West's decision to open the "world's biggest picture theatre" in Melbourne in 1909, reinforced the notion of the south side of Princes Bridge as an entertainment precinct.

Page 12 An Opening and a Closing
The refurbished Westgarth Triple is a Triumph; Doncaster Twin goes Dark

Page 13 The Cinema and theatre Association (UK) In Australia
The CTA report of their visit to Australia: Part One - Victoria

Page 21 Padua from the Inside - Brian Scott
Memories of a favourite theatre

Page 24 Memoirs of a Film Distributor - Peter Broome
Part Two: A Knight Of the Road. In which a young Peter Broome is given the back blocks of NSW as his sales territory

Page 30 Check That Tablecloth ? William Gray
One tablecloth design was almost obligatory in films of the 1930s and 1940s.

ISS.53 - Edition 4 - 2006

Page 4 Letters, Newsreel

Page 6 His Majesty's Christchurch - Tony Froude
Henry White's first theatre triumph

Page 9 Memoirs of a Film Distributor - Peter Broome
Part Three -From 16mm to junior executive

Page 12 A Year In Pictures - Members scrapbook

Page 13 Cinemas and Theatres of Oz
The Cinema and Theatre Association of the UK Visits Australia: Part Two: Sydney

Page 22 Reels Across The City - Brian Miller
Part Two: The Independent Theatres of Melbourne

Page 27 A Switch In Time - Roger Seccombe
Film Switching in Richmond

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