Chauvel Cinema
249 Oxford Street,
Sydney,
NSW
2021
249 Oxford Street,
Sydney,
NSW
2021
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Located in the trendy Sydney inner city district of Paddington at the corner of Oatley Road and Oxford Street. The Chauvel Cinema was located in the historic Paddington Town Hall building, which was built in 1891.
The Chauvel Cinema opened in 1977 with one screen and operates from the former ballroom of the building. A second screen was added in 1995. This was an art house cinema screening classic and cinematheque type programs in addition to film festivals. It was closed on January 27, 2026.
The entire Town Hall complex is due to undergo a renovation.
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exterior dec 2008
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3199515109/
Was it named after director Charles Chauvel?
The snack bar of this cinema was seen in the Australian tv series “Checkout”(series 1, episode 7),(segment - if cinemas were gyms).
Named for Australian cinema pioneer Charles Chauvel when it was the Australian Film Institute’s Sydney cinema. (In Melbourne they had the Longford, named for Raymond Longford.)