Hi Donald:

I've been involved in film societies in Australia since 1959 and may be able to provide some assistance.

Perhaps you could PM me.

Cheers
paulb

Thanks, Brooksie, for alerting us about Epic on Youtube. Hobart Film Society screened the reconstructed Term at the Hobart International Film Festival in September 1981 where it was introduced by Ray Edmondson who appears briefly in Epic. We also screened Epic in another session, but I thought it wa...

Hi Donald: You could also try your local Theatre Organ Society. Only last week in Hobart we had a concert by visiting US organist Jerry Nagano which featured a screening of Buster Keaton's "One week" accompanied by our wonderful Wurlitzer. And late last year another visiting US organist Donna Parker...

Sorry, drednm, I don't have Blow your own trumpet or Soapbox Derby. Most of my prints are later titles from the mid-1960s onward. They were owned by the Tasmanian Council for Children's Films & Television when my wife and I were both involved in organising screenings. Those were the days! Cheers Paul

I'm presently working my way through a recent donation of 20 or so Children's Film Foundation films on 16mm which will double my holdings of these titles. (In my retirement I've become a sort of orphanage director for unwanted 16mm prints -- I now have over 2000 short films filling up my house!). Th...

Donald: I was at one of Carl Davis's live performances of The crowd some years ago in Melbourne -- a terrific evening but a disappointingly small audience. And that Phantom performance (which I also attended) was at a Melbourne Film Festival screening in the beautifully restored Regent Theatre (wher...

And I've heard a local theatre organist use a snippet of Climb every mountain during Harold's climb in Safety last.

Cheers
Paul

I, too, have many fond memories of The Astor. I've attended many 70mm screenings -- Lawrence of Arabia, Branagh's Hamlet, Playtime, 2001: a space odyssey,Baraka -- and even been invited to the projection box with one of my sons. Although I now don't get to Melbourne as often as I'd like, my visits u...

Just home (after midnight!) from my film society's screening of Lawrence of Arabia looking and sounding superb from Bluray on our big screen and speakers. We last screened it in our 1996 Festival of Great Films from a well-used 35mm print with a damaged soundtrack, so it was good to exorcise that ex...

The latest silent movie I've seen was E A Dupont's Piccadilly, newly-restored by the British Film Institute. A fascinating picture of London in 1929 with Anna May Wong. This print has a jazz-inspired score by prolific film accompanist Neil Brand; there's a short extra where he discusses the film and...

I've been involved in film societies since I was a teenager (and I'll be 75 in a fortnight!). Are any other members actively involved in a film society and interested in sharing experiences? The Hobart Film Society started in 1946 (I joined when I went to Tasmania in 1967) and is still screening reg...

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