A gun-toting buffalo shooter , his hat over the end of his rifle, was present when the first talkie was screened in The Star Theatre , Darwin , captioned 24/5/1933,the film strangely penned : As The Clouds Roll By ,which seems wrong . Some members of the audience covered their faces, fearful of losing part of their being when photographed. It is believed the audience included a party from the Aboriginal Kahlin Compound where author Xavier Herbert and partner Sadie spent time . During one night at the Don Pictures ,about 1924, an angry man whipped out a Colt Peacemaker and fired a shot at a theatregoer, missed , killed a Chinaman . Author Glenville Pike , in his early book Frontier Territory , wrote the jury returned a verdict of accidental death .Pike also mentioned an episode in which a police officer fired a revolver shot into the Administrator's flagpole for a bet .
Hollywood Duck Shooter Hits Darwin
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Jory poster with duck hunting party .
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Another major screening in Darwin in which the theatre took on an Oriental look.
