At the Movies: The history of the Star Theatres of Tasmania by Jenny Overton | HB Maritime locked in an increasingly bloody

locked in an increasingly bloody fight for survival

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nearly 250 women were transported from Ireland to Van Diemen’s Land for committing arson

It’s a story of life in the 1950s and ’60s

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At the Movies: The history of the Star Theatres of Tasmania by Jenny Overton | HB Maritime locked in an increasingly bloodyFor anyone who can remember going to the movies as a kid in the north and west of Tasmania, it would have been at a Star Theatre. What began in the local town hall as travelling entertainment in the early 1900s, grew to a sophisticated and glamorous enterprise, thanks to the vision of Bob Hamilton. For almost 40 years, Star burned arc lamps and projected the films and film stars we grew to love onto the big screen. At the Movies: History of the Star