The Majestic Theatre was a cinema that opened on Flinders Street, Melbourne on 31 August 1912.

History

The cinema was built for Amalgamated Pictures Ltd, whose directors included J. H. Tait and W. Gibson. Its architects were Klingender and Alsop, with assistance from Nahum Barnett. It was built in the style of a live theatre, with boxes near the

proscenium A proscenium ( grc-gre, προσκήνιον, ) is the metaphorical vertical plane of space in a theatre, usually surrounded on the top and sides by a physical proscenium arch (whether or not truly "arched") and on the bottom by the stage floor ...

, but with a slightly sloping ceiling, for improved acoustics, as well as a raked floor. It was located in the four-storey Majestic Buildings, 178 Flinders Street, opposite the eastern end of the

Flinders Street railway station Flinders Street railway station is a train station located on the corner of Flinders Street, Melbourne, Flinders and Swanston Street, Swanston streets in the Melbourne city centre, central business district (CBD) of Melbourne, Victoria (Austral ...

. It became the Chelsea Theatre in 1960, became vacant in 1979, was demolished in 1986, and is now a car park.

References

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