Star Theatre, Art Deco movie theater in Invermay, Australia
The Star Theatre is a movie theater in Invermay featuring geometric patterns and vertical lines from the 1930s located on Invermay Road. The facade displays typical Art Deco features that are immediately noticeable.
The building was designed by architect Guy Crick from the firm Crick & Furse and opened its doors in the 1930s. It became an important new venue for cinema and entertainment in the area.
The cinema was bought in 1971 by the St. Vincent de Paul Society and used as a charity store until 2015, when Andrew Quaile, Ben Davis and Paul Lee-Archer bought the building and returned it to film use. It reopened as an independent cinema, café and bar on 6 April 2018.
The cinema sits in Invermay, an inner suburb on the opposite bank of the Tamar from central Launceston, and is reached by crossing the river from the city side. It reopened on 6 April 2018 as an independent cinema with a café and bar, so visitors can arrive before a screening and stay afterwards. The 1937 auditorium originally held 852 seats.
The building opened in 1937 with seating for 852 people. It closed as a cinema in 1969 and was bought in 1971 by the St. Vincent de Paul Society, which ran it as a charity store. Three buyers, Andrew Quaile, Ben Davis and Paul Lee-Archer, purchased it in 2015 and reopened it as a cinema on 6 April 2018.
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