Visions of archeologists in the future attempting the discover the
fate that befell a lost civilisation whilst unearthing multiple
McDonalds sites.
On 15 Jun 2010, at 13:00, Phil Edwards wrote:
It does. but as a couple of decades ago, the bulldozers went through
the Sydney Regent (where I trained as a projectionist at 15, my
first stint with Hoyts theatres) at the crack of dawn it proved that
Heritage Orders are not worth anything.
Across the road from the Sydney Regent, was the Plaza, the home of
Cinerama.
It's partially a MacDonald's now, and if you know where to look, you
can see the remnants of the Plaza's ceiling cornices.
While the Brisbane Regent was converted to 4 screens in the 70s, it
was done with some taste and style compared to the slice and dice of
other such conversions and the foyer retained the original style and
much of the original period fittings were retained.
Our local cinema was originally a single screen. Now it's a three-
plex with only one screen that hardly qualifies as a cinema.
I remember when the first West End multiplex opened in London....
was it the Classic down the Tottenham Court Road end of Oxford
Street...? Most memorably because it was a new cinema, they had to
have the house lights on 50% as per then council regs for the first
three months or some such nonsense. The upside was that they hadn't
figured out that people might just buy one tickete and go from
sesssion to session and see all the movies over a day and evening
for the price of one.
The same thing happened in Australia, when the NUT had to be brought
down and they did away with indivdual audiotoria ticket takers so
the wages bill could be reduced. You bought a ticket and were left
on your own.
Ah, show business. Endlessly fascinating.
Phil
----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Evans" <evan...@blueyonder.co.uk
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To: <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Historic Cinema closes down
Surprise to nobody that people would happily do this, which is why
there should be a line of defence.
Can't imagine the Heritage Commission's reason for not listing it,
does Australia have a surfeit of similarly impressive picture
palaces?
On 15 Jun 2010, at 04:43, JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia wrote:
Brisbane's historic Regent Cinema will be closing today for
redevelopment. Yet another of Australia's magnificent cinemas lost
forever. This is a real tragedy and another example of greed from
developers and stupidty of policticians.
Photos here ...
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/photogallery/queensland/last-days-of-the-regent/20100607-xoq2.html?selectedImage=0
Full story here ....
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/entertainment/curtain-set-to-close-on-regent-theatre-20100607-xnvt.html
Website: www.moviemem.com
JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIA
PO Box 92
Palm Beach
Qld 4221
Australia
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