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Interview with George Tarr
Date: 03 Nov 1964
From: National Film Library. Oral history recordings
By: Tarr, George Herrmann, 1881-1968
Reference: OHInt-0091-03
Description: George Tarr describes his first interest in film in Australia in 1893, work as a projectionist in Australia, the Lumiere Machine, other projection machines, anecdote about the first picture show in Broken Hill Australia, his birth and early life as a vaudeville artist, anecdote about early slide shows in Australia, the film 'Just as the sun went down' with Frank Davenport, the original film about Hinemoa, 'The Trawling Industry and Charlie Newham, the idea for Hinemoa, the finance, making the film, the costs, the results, Sarah Tawhai, Barry Martell and 'Kid from Timaru', 'Ten Thousand miles to cannibal land', the making of the film, the advertising, release, running a show with P R Dicks in 1904, making money from the early films. Recalls Henry Hayward, problems with sound, RCA, De Forrest sound. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Ray Hayes Interviewer(s) - Rudall Hayward Venue - At George Tarr's home at Prospect Terrace, Milford, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005321 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB 1004. Search dates: 1881 - 1964