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Cinemas Quiz
1. Where were moving pictures screened for the first time in Fremantle?
2. What hall, which opened in 1867, was the venue for a season of Harper's Biograph Vaudeville Company films in 1897, one of the earliest screenings in Fremantle? (Clue: it was in William Street.)
3. What cinema was demolished in 2014, supposedly so that a Hilton hotel could be built on the site? In 2020, it's a carpark.
4. What cinema, demolished in 1972, was renamed after a P&O liner when the ship arrived here on its maiden visit in 1961? (It's original name was Hoyts.)
5. The largest and one of the three most prestigious cinemas in Fremantle is still standing (tho more or less empty) and even still has its sign over its marquee in front of Kakulas Sister (thanks to Michael Finn), tho it hasn't been used as a cinema since 1969. What is it?
6. Perhaps even more prestigious, because of its centrality, but somewhat smaller, what cinema's initials can still be seen on balconies at the front of the building in the middle of the High Street Mall, despite it's not having been used as a cinema since 1938?
7. What theatre in South Terrace was used for the projection of films as part of vaudeville programs? The building has had many names and been used for many purposes, including panel-beating! It is currently a nightclub.
8. The 1854 Boys School in Adelaide Street was for a time used not only as a cinema but also a production office for the making of films. What was one of either of its two names during that time?
9. What cinema was almost in Beaconsfield - just over the road from the Beaconsfield Hotel (now with a silly name) and was among other things a supermarket after it was closed as a cinema in the late 1960s?
10. And, for East Fremantle residents, what is the name of one of the cinemas that used to be there? (I think there might as many possible answers as four, tho one is the obvious one. Extra kudos if you get the one near the corner of Petra Street.)
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