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Fairymount Flicks explores the beginnings of Cinema. Sit back and relax in air conditioned comfort and take a fascinating journey through time and experience the beginnings of Cinema with your host Mr. Stuart Everrett. Using early examples of projectors, films, slides and equipment from his extensive collection, Stuart presents a 90 minute live show, explaining the history from Pre Cinema progressing through to the Birth of the Motion Picture Industry with demonstrations of the equipment used in those periods.

Pre Cinema: Stuart explains about live plays and the advent of the Fantascope, Zeotrope and Stereoscope. The development of lens amnd suitable light sources Lime Light, Gas and Arc Light.

Magic Lantern Era 1874 - 1912: This fascinating Pre Movie Era is talked about with with full demonstrations of Lanterns of the era featuring slides from the Boar War, SlipSlides, Mechanical Slides, Amusement Slides and Educational Slides.

The Birth of World Cinema: Stuart discusses Edison, The Lumiere Bros and Laurie Dickson with demonstrations of early Edison Film Clips. The “Birth of Australian Cinema” was in the 1800’s with the first showing of a commercial movie clip in Australia by Magician Carl Hertz using a Theatrograph at the Tivoli in Bourke Street, Melbourne on the 22nd August 1896.

About Stuart:
Stuart Everett was born in Kyogle in 1937 and began his love affair with the cinema at the age of 12, when he started work for Mr. T.J. Dorgan who owned the Kyogle Roxy Theatre at the time. By the age of 15 Stuart was running the movies every Saturday at Gatton Agricultural College using the Kalee 7 projectors and Magnacoustain Sound Heads and Arc lights. For several years Stuart worked as a travelling showman presenting 16mm movies at Kyogle, Casino and Evans Head and has worked as a projectionist in various cinemas.

With the establishment of Kyogle Cinema (later renamed Richmond Valley Cinema) and incorporating “Fairymount Flicks Cinema Museum” Stuart has been able to fullfill his dreams and has set up one of the most extensive displays of working vintage cinema equipment in Australia.
Stuart was awarded the Churchill Fellowship for the Year 2000 for his work in, “Recapturing the Techniques Used in Early Cinema Presentations”.

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