Pam’s earliest movie memory was when, at age five, her mother took her to the matinee screening at the Majestic Cinema in Kalgoolie to see “Blackboard Jungle”, starring Glenn Ford, who was one of her favourite actors. This was the start of her interest in movies and all they represented. Pam’s working life in the…
Roger and Denice Harrison are Queensland’s first Joint Cinema Pioneers of the year. In the Picture Show business Roger is a pretty rare breed – he has a history of three generations in the Industry. Not many people can claim that sort of pedigree. Denice, a Cinema Pioneer in her own right, also has a…
The retirement of Fred from Launceston’s Village Cinema 4 in 2014 brought to a close over 60 years of involvement with picture theatres in Victoria and Tasmania. His life in cinemas began in the late-1940s and early-1950s when his mother worked as a cleaner at Hoyts Southern Theatre at Hampton in Victoria. He had the…
In the mid 1950’s and from a very young age, John spent a great deal of time helping in the bio-box of the Empire Cinema in Cessnock, where his Uncle was Area Manager for Greater Union Cinemas. Ironically, due to the many coalfeld strikes, crews from Cinesound and Movietone News were often in the area.…
Peter Fenton began his film career as a sound mixer with Merv Murphy’s Paddington production company Supreme Sound in 1958. The complex (which included a laboratory), specialised in cinema and television commercials, as well as documentaries and the occasional television pilot. Peter had worked with radio 2UE as an on-air panel operator, and later as a Production Operator recording commercials, jingles and serials. After a brief stint at Natec…
Temporarily tempted out of retirement earlier this year to run 70mm screenings of “The Hateful Eight”, Dick’s long cinema career first began back in March 1958 when he trained as an Assistant Projectionist at the Plaza Theatre in suburban Northcote under Jim Mitchell and Peter Pennell. He soon heard of a vacancy at the Austral…