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policies of the major companies when notables associated with cinema
they were running country cinemas in during its 26 year history. Trailers of
the decades prior to television. various films which were highlights of
However, unlike other single the cinema’s history flashed across the
screen cinemas like the Trak and the screen in the background. A CATHS-
historical Carlton Moviehouse – V Certificate acknowledging Natalie
which closed up without any special Miller’s role in fostering the
acknowledgement, The Longford went Australian film industry was presented
out in style. It presented the ‘One Last on the night.
Time Festival” from July 5 to 21 – And you can be sure that Natalie’s
screening a selection of the films it was not the only moist eye in the
premiered and promoted on to fame, theatre as another era in Melbourne’s
and on the remaining evenings to July rich cinema history drew to a close. ★
25 it re-screened the Festival’s
Acknowledgements:
favourites.
INTERVIEWED BY BRIAN MIER:
The Longford finally closed with a
Terry Brown, Manager – Longford Cinema
public screening of ‘Cinema Paradiso’
AND: Natalie Miller, Co-Founder and
on 25 July 2001 to an almost capacity
Proprietor, Longford Cinema
audience. It took half an hour to empty
PHOTOGRAPHS BY: Kevin Adams.
the theatre afterwards, many patrons
Melbourne “Age” ads and clippings Above: Lining the Bio-Box stairs, dozens
feeling deeply, the passing of another
courtesy of Martin Powell. of film trunks await their turn as part of
single screen cinema in Melbourne. the “One Last Time Festival”.

Newspaper and clippings courtesy of Martin Powell.

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