Universal House, 572 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Butler, Graeme1985
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Universal House, 572 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
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1985
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BIF-CITY 105721
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Series: Central City (BIF-CITY)
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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2022:__________________________________________________Period: Inter-WarDATE: 1929-1930;ASSOCIATIONS: Universal Film Manufacturing Co. (A'sia) Ltd.;.GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBuilding Identification Form.CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATION Indexhttps://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/60672/images/44777_349575-007611929 Dec 9 12047 £4250 erection of building1970s-1980s sundry works..NEWSPAPERS (TROVE)The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954)Wednesday 11 December 1929 - Page 17https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/244574354Modern Film Exchange : To be Built in Lonsdale Street...... are now erecting special film exchange buildings In Australia, similar to those recently built by this company throughout America. The company's architect. Mr Eric C. Beedham, who hasspecialised In the design of film exchanges and their equipment, has prepared designs of the building which is to be erected in Lonsdale Street...The building which has two floors, is constructed with brick walls and concrete floors and the street elevation, a perspective of which la shown, Is faced, with faience ware with artificial stone dressings...The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)Thursday 3 May 1934 - Page 11S:https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10933131CONSTABLE FIRES THREE SHOTSChase in the CityDuring an exciting chase through lanes between Lonsdale and Little Collins streets last night a constable fired three shots over the head of a youth who was suspected of having broken into the premises of the Universal Film Manufacturing Co. (A'sia) Ltd. in Universal House, Lonsdale street. The youth escaped in dark lanes near Little Collins street. Two youths who were working at the rear of the premises of Leggatt's, manufacturers of woollen goods, which adjoins Universal House, saw a rope hanging from a window at the rear of the first floor of Universal House about 10 p.m. in the lane at the back of the two buildings were a youth aged about 18 years and a boy aged about 12 years. Picking up heavy billets of wood, the two factory operatives went up to the youth and the boy, who engaged them quietly in conversation. One of the strangers said that they had been looking for pigeons on the roof of Universal House. While his companion held the youth and the boy in conversation one of the factory hands obtained his bicycle from the factory and rode to the Bourke street west police station. A number of police in uniform and plain-clothes police surrounded the build but by that time the strangers had gone. A constable saw one of them at the corner of Lonsdale street and Crombie lane, and he chased him. When the youth disregarded his commands to stop he fired ; three shots over his head, but the youth only ran faster. Across Little Bourke street and along a lane into Bourke street they ran and then the fugitive dashed across Little Collins street into a dark lane, which led into a number of other lanes. The constable searched the lanes without success. The other boy escaped also. It was found that the intruders had entered Universal House through a window. The premises contained films worth many thousand pounds, but nothing had been stolen. It is thought that they intended to force open the office safe with the iron bar found near the window.The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)Wednesday 29 May 1946 - Page 13THEY WERE EXPENDABLE, at the St James, story of the part played by the US PT boats in General Mac Arthur's evacuation from Manila, is one of the best war films to come out of the recent war. Universal's Melbourne branch is toying with the idea of reviving the best film of the 1914-18 war, All Quiet On The Western Front. When the executive saw a rescreening of the picture in its theatrette last week, it got just as big a kick out of it as it did when the film was first released. "It's still the best war film ever done," said Tom Cadwallader, Victorian manager. Only the fear that the film may be too harrowing for parents and relatives of men who suffered and died is prevent- ing Universal from reissuing the picture. It would like to get public reaction to the idea. Anyone with ideas on the subject should write to the exchange at 572 Lonsdale st with suggestions.DESIGNER: Beedham, Eric C.
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