John Robert (Jack) Anderson (1924–1993) was a film distributor, cinema owner and photographer as well as an enthusiastic filmmaker in and around Ballarat in Victoria. Jack developed an interest in film very early at cinema shows and gained his first film experience while serving in WWII, photographing wartime conditions and aircraft involved in the defence of Australia’s north, including the aftermath of the Darwin bombing raid.
It was whilst working in photographic studios that Jack met his future wife, business partner and fellow film enthusiast Marie Bourke. Starting out by hiring films and showing them around regional Victoria, Jack and Marie established cinemas such as the Astor Cinema in Ararat, Bell Post Hill Drive-In in Geelong and the Southern and Northern Drive-Ins and Vegas 70 Cinema in Ballarat. In the 1970s, the Anderson family acquired and restored the Regent Theatre in Ballarat which would then become the first multiplex in regional Victoria.
Along the way, Jack filmed his family and friends activities and outings, horse racing, Ballarat street scenes, motorcycle scrambling and travel scenes on the road – an unusual and wonderful look at life in regional Victoria during the 1940s to the 1960s.
This film was originally made using 16mm film.
This film shows the wedding of John and Marie’s daughter Sharon to Graeme on 15 January 1977, featuring some great 70s fashion.
Selected highlights list:
00:00:03:00 title card ‘Graeme & Sharon, St Patrick’s Cathedral, 15-1-77’
00:00:18:00 Marie walking out of the house in a floor-length dress
00:00:49:00 Sharon in her wedding dress leaving the house and getting into the red car
00:02:32:00 some great 70s fashion amongst the guests
00:03:18:00 the married couple being pelted with confetti by her siblings and friends at the church gate
00:04:10:00 Sharon being carried across the lawn
00:04:35:00 on a river cruise to the reception
00:05:35:00 the married couple cutting the cake
00:06:00:00 Sharon and her brothers on the dance floor
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B2004252
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Silent
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Colour
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16mm film; Master
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - presentation
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