'Noboby else would have any idea that you are there in the morning at 10 o'clock to watch a movie.' 'A lot of people don't want to have a footprint on their computer or on their phone for that type of cinema, so that's where our model is attractive,' she said. Ms Mellon-Robertson credited live entertainment as the main reason the cinema continued so long but said it had other merits. In 2018 a man was jailed for subjecting a woman to what a judge called a 'violent, general beating' after he paid for a private erotic dance at the venue. In 1986, the Prostitution Control Board alleged a female performer at the Crazy Horse was showing 'all her pink bits' but a subsequent court case determined it was pink tape strapping.įire damage in 2008 forced the venue to close for repairs. While this proved a boon creating 'lines stretching around the corner' the venue faced some controversy and challenges. Its seating was reduced to accommodate a stage with poles for live performances and peep show booths were also added along with private internet viewing.
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In 1985 the cinema was bought by Mr Hill and rebranded as Crazy Horse. The advent of VCRs, allowing home viewing of pornography, posed another challenge to the cinema's viability. When Australia allowed R-rated films to be screened, Star Theatrette was one of the first to jump on the bandwagon and by 1974 it had been renamed Star Adult Theatre and was doing a good trade. In the mid-1980s the cinema was given its current Crazy Horse branding after it was taken over by sex shop tycoon Kenneth Hill who added a store and live performances to the venue These films would often feature topless females but only if they 'natives' from a non Anglo-Saxon country. The advent of television led to a downturn in business leading the venue to rebrand in 1963 as the Star Theatrette, when it began showing exploitation and sexploitation films, which tiptoed around the strict laws on showing nudity at the time. 'The Star will always have a special place in the hearts of many people,' he said. In calling for the venue to be heritage listed, Mr Kilderry said its closure would be 'great tragedy'. Some of that footage has been preserved by the National Film and Sound Archive. 'They would go out, shoot some some footage on 16-millimetre film, add some rough titles and commentary, and have it on screen during the week after the games were played,' he said. 'We thought maybe we might do little morning tea boxes with sandwiches or cakes' Ms Mellon-Robertson said.įilm historian David Kilderry told the ABC that along with it staple program of newsreels, shorts and cartoons, the cinema was a pioneer in replaying Aussie Rules matches from the then-VFL competition. It's not clear if the venue will go out with a bang, so to speak, as plans are still made to see it out of commission. The venue, originally called the Star Theatre, is near Flinders Street Station on Elizabeth Street and could easily be walked past except for the garish neon signage including a provocatively exposed woman and flashing invites to 'come on down'. 'They can come and do their thing in the monring, whatever it is they do and then they can do go and maybe do shopping for the wife or maybe have lunch and then come back if they like,' she said. Ms Mellon-Robertson said a big lure was the $10 pensioner all-day ticket. 'If one of them doesn't come or they are not there they get very concerned about their welfare, whether they are OK. 'Some of our people who come in the morning have been coming for over 20 years and are in their 90s now so they are probably not going to go online I wouldn't think. 'There's not really anywhere else in the city for them to go to get that.' 'For them it is a real meeting place, it is a community hub that without that they might not have, so we are concerned about that,' she said. Perhaps the hardest hit are a group of male pensioners who attend film showings three times a week when the cinema opens at 10am. 'We've already had many, many calls today by a lot of our long-supporting patrons particularly those who come during business hours.
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'We have many, many different groups that support the venue,' she said. Melbourne's oldest adult cinema, located in the city centre on Elizabeth St, is set to close in late June which will disappoint some regular pensioner patrons as well as film history buffsĬlub X spokesperson Jill Mellon-Robertson told Daily Mail Australia the news of the cinema's closure was met with much sadness.