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Cinema : Cameo Cinemas Belgrave
| Cinema Name | Cameo Cinemas Belgrave |
| Date Started | 26-12-2003 |
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| Seats Count | 309 |
| Screens Count | 8 |
| Address | 1628 Burwood Hwy |
| Suburb | Belgrave |
| Postcode | 3160 |
| State | VIC |
| Country | Australia |
| Date Built | 22-11-1935 |
| Date Demolished | |
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References ( click to view )
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| web - Dromana's Drive-In tradition . 14-12-2011. p.1 |
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Sarah Hudspm
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| journal - Innovation in the Australian Film Industry . 02-06-2000. pp.pp.15-16 |
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Rod Bishop,
Dominic Case,
Stella Axarlis
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| web - Movies and shakers . 05-12-2011. p.1 |
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Nicole Haddow
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| Tamirâs take his third cinema project after opening the single-screen Classic in Elsternwick in 1997, followed by refurbishing the Cameo in Belgrave in 200...[full record]
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| chapter - Studies in Australasian Cinema : Cinema in a small state: distribution and exhibition in Adelaide at the coming of sound . 00-00-2007. pp.pp.299-313 |
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Mike Walsh
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| newspaper - The Australian Film Industry - The Next 50 Years . 00-12-2008. p.2 |
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Peter Krausz
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| History of Cameo |
The Cameo was built by Alex Jaensch, who came to the Hills with his family in the early 1920s.
The Cameo was originally opened on November 22, 1935.
From the time of its opening and through the 1940s and %u201850s, the Cameo remained a focus of social activity for both the local community and beyond.
n 1961 Jaensch retired after nearly 40 years in the cinema business, and the Cameo simply closed. It was resurrected in 1964 by Don and Elaine McWhirter.
When the McWhirter family moved to northern New South Wales in 1977, partners John McKenzie and Leong Lim took over the cinema and continued with upgrades, including a Dolby sound system, a curved brick fa?ade, and two new cinema auditoriums, finally completed in 1987.
Palace Cinemas took over the lease at the Cameo in 1991 and continued to screen movies at the site until mid 2003.
On September 1, the Cameo was purchased by Eddie Tamir,featuring five stylish cinemas and an outdoor cinema, re-open on December 26, 2003 with a mix of new arthouse films, quality blockbusters for adults and children, and world cinema classics.
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