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Cameo Cinema

Location 1628 Burwood Highway (Main Street), Belgrave VIC 3160 - Property No 57198, 83743 File Number 108 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Cameo Cinema at 1628 Burwood Highway, Belgrave.

How is it significant?
The Cameo is local historic and aesthetic significance.

Why is it significant?
The Cameo cinema is of high local significance as the only Interwar cinema still operational in the city and with a generally intact interior. It illustrates the increasing popularity of cinema during the Interwar period and has been an important focus of community activity.
RNE Criterion A.4

The Cameo Cinema is also of aesthetic significance, primarily embodied in the extant Art Deco features of the original 1935 cinema auditorium. RNE Criterion E.1