Amusu Theatre, Heritage movie theater in Manildra, Australia

The Amusu Theatre is a movie theater in Manildra with an art deco facade and corrugated iron construction, accommodating roughly 300 patrons. Inside are the original carbon arc projectors and seating from the 1930s.

Allan Tom built the theatre in 1936 after closing his mobile cinema operation that had served remote communities across western New South Wales. This shift from traveling screenings to a permanent venue marked a turning point for the operator and the region.

The name "Amusu" came from contact with an equipment supplier in the early 1930s. Allan Tom, whose middle name was Australia, ran the cinema until his death in 1995 at 93; the Tom family kept operating it afterwards. The adjacent Tom's Garage now holds a movie poster museum with 30,000 posters, funded by a $50,000 state government grant.

New-release screenings run on the third Saturday night of each month, with special screenings arranged on request. The cinema is at 17 Derowie Street, and the neighbouring Tom's Garage, now a movie poster museum, can be visited alongside it. The building is owned by Cabonne Council and run by a committee.

The poster collection is not in the theatre itself: it fills Tom's Garage next door, converted into a movie poster museum with a $50,000 state government grant. The garage began as the Tom family's carrier and car-hire business in 1914, when an underage Allan Tom used a horse and cart.