CAARP
Cinema and Audience Research Project

The town hall theatre, built in 1899 and was soon equiped with a bio box and the necessary equipment for movie screening. (Adams). Both the Paramount and Town Hall theatres combined management and worked together until 1938. In 1954, Mr J Anderson formed partnership with R Kirby and took on the lease of the Town Hall Theatre, which operated in competition with the Midland. The Ararat Town Hall was eventually (1974) turned into a multi-purpose venue with very little of the original facade or interior remaining.

References
2001, 'Film venues of the Wimmera' Cinema Record, Iss. 33, Winter, pp.8-9.
Film Weekly, Film Weekly: motion picture directory, Film Weekly, Sydney. 1946/7-1971
Adams, K 'The history of the theatres of Ararat' Kino, p. 4