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Geraldine Cinema (South Canterbury)

Address: 78 Talbot Street, Geraldine

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Contact Person: Patrick Walsh
Phone:​ 03 693 8118
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Website:www.geraldinecinema.co.nz
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GeraldineCinema/

Details
Capacity:  300
Screen:     single
Sound:      Western Electric Voice of the Cinema
Seating:    older style + comfortable sofas
Snackbar:  cinema snacks
Accessibility:  wheelchair access ramp

​Geoff's Review
According to cinema owner and long-time film buff Patrick Walsh, this historic  cinema (est. 1924) has  'become  more of a tourist attraction than a fully-thriving, community-oriented cinema'. Possibly one reason for this is that Geraldine itself has changed, with an influx of new residents from Christchurch and  expatriates from other places,  Perhaps the community needs to treasure it rather more: when we visited in December 2019,  Patrick was bewailing the fact that a school party had wilfully damaged the screen the day before.] But the Geraldine Cinema will persist; the building is council-owned and is due for earthquake-strengthening.  The cinema provides a good mix of recent mainstream and art house films.
You can access a detail history of the cinema and its former role as the Geraldine Town Hall  http://www.rootsweb.ancestrt.com/-nzlscant/town_hall.htm ​
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