Author Archive for: ‘Dylan Walker’
The Only Fun We Have Once in Three Weeks: Rural Exhibition on the Eyre Peninsula in the 1930s
One significant aspect of the work currently being done on the history of film exhibition and audiences in the United States stresses the importance of rural cinemas and itinerant showmen (Fuller Seeley, 2008). It is perhaps a commonplace of Australian film history that rural exhibition venues outnumbered urban ones, and that travelling picture show men played a vital role in …
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