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was born in Adelaide (South Australia) in November 1929 and went to various schools there during the depression.
I My brother came along 4 years later. During the war years the government thought that the Japanese may come
around the coast and attack Adelaide.
Families were advised to send their children to the farming areas. I had an uncle at Milang (on Lake Alexandrina)
and went to stay with him, which I hated. I had to walk to school, some 2 miles. I eventually moved back to school in
Adelaide. We lived in Walkerville in the north-east of the city.

I became interested in the movies at the When I was older I used to go on my own
Walkerville Institute Hall.
Walkerville Institute, operated by a local into the City where I went to the Regent,
independent exhibitor. The staff used to place Metro, Wests, York, and Civic theatres.
posters on the billboards on the North East
Road and sometimes they would give me I used to love going to the movies on my own
some of the posters. That is how I became on Saturday afternoons. I would see first-
interested in films. release movies in the city and then go to the
Walkerville Institute to see them a second
As my father was not interested in films, time weeks later.
my mother used to take me to the Institute.
She used to sit upstairs with her friends and In 1947, when I was 18, I started work in the
Adelaide York. I would sit downstairs in the front stalls with menswear department at the big city Myers
th
the kids. I used to see a lot of 20 Century Store in Rundle Street and also got work in a
Fox and other distributor’s films there. local grocer in Walkerville.

Adelaide York.

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