Site of Cinesound Productions-historic movie studio location (Sydney) | place with historical importance, film/video production studio/facility

 place with historical importance, film/video production studio/facility, historical layer / disappeared object

In 1925 Australasian Films/Union Theatres bought the Centennial Roller Skating Rink site at 65 Ebley Street, Bondi Junction, converted it into a film studio and began making silent films. As they still needed the rent from the skating rink to subsidise their filmmaking business, the studio used the site during the day and the skaters used it at night.

All over the film world the 1930s was the era of the studio, and this was reflected locally in Waverley. By 1931 the film studio had become Cinesound Productions, which went on to become a pioneer Australian film company.

In 1934 the studio employed 144 people permanently and 450 casuals and now operated three film studios – Bondi Junction, Rushcutters Bay and St. Kilda. The Bondi Junction site was known as Studio no. 1.

Cinesound Productions made feature films until the early 1940s, after which the fortunes of Cinesound started to decline. The company then concentrated on its newsreels, which had been originally created to exhibit alongside their feature films.

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