BEN ANDERSON – 2026 TASMANIAN CINEMA PIONEER OF THE YEAR Ben writes about his Cinema career… My first memories of the cinema industry are of a young boy around the age of eight, riding my BMX bike over the ramps at the East Devonport Starlite Drive-in. Parked beside the projection room in the front seat…
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CAROL DIPROSE – 2024 TASMANIAN CINEMA PIONEERS OF THE YEAR Carol began her involvement with the cinema industry in 1980 employed at the West End Twin Cinemas in Hobart. Initially her role was working 3 to 4 shifts per week doing 3 hour split shifts in the candy bar area, in the days when it…
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TIM KINGSTON – 2022 TASMANIAN CINEMA PIONEER OF THE YEAR Tim Kingston reminisces about highlights of his life in the industry… “As a youngster, I usually went to the Tatler Cinema in Hobart on Saturday afternoons. Always curious, I found my way into the projection room and it wasn’t long before the projectionist, Max Wallace,…
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My love affair with the Cinema industry started with a visit to the Village Moorabbin Drive In, in September 1967. After completing my 2 years National Service, I went to the Drive In with my girlfriend at the time. My uncle was a carhop and he served me, I asked how did he get a…
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In 1978 I began my employment with “Tasmanian Drive-In Theatre Holdings” later to become “Village Cinemas”. At the time the Hobart Cinema Complex consisted of only 2 cinemas. I started as an Usherette, working split shifts doing 4 hours in the day, having a break then coming back for 4 hours of an evening. I…
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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…
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