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Speaker 1: the number we are about to starch Adelaide remembers when

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Speaker 1: Bob Burn today talking old Western movies, back in the day,

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Speaker 1: old Western movies and the cinemas they used to be in.

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Speaker 1: In fact, let's give it a bit of a rev

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Speaker 1: with maybe a bit of a theme for a movie

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Speaker 1: that was big in that space. Might have been more

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Speaker 1: of a TV show, but a movie did come out

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Speaker 1: with Johnny Depp and a few other people in it. Nevertheless,

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Speaker 1: Bob Burn Adelaide remember when, and Bob, good morning. What

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Speaker 1: a great topic.

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Speaker 2: Yes, well, actually it was all broad about Matthew, because

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Speaker 2: I don't mean to just give a free plug here.

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Speaker 2: But on Sunday at the Caprice Cinema they're showing a

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Speaker 2: cup of Western movies. They're bringing back Western Rio Bravo

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Speaker 2: and Blazing Saddles and two very very different films, of course,

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Speaker 2: but you know one the one the classic Western and

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Speaker 2: of course one of the very very funny movie that

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Speaker 2: we all remember. And it seemed like a good opportunity

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Speaker 2: to write in the paper last Monday about the good

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Speaker 2: old days of cowboys and Indians. You know, like every

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Speaker 2: weekend right around Australia, not only here in Adelaide, but

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Speaker 2: around neighborhoods everywhere. There'd be the sound of cat guns

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Speaker 2: and whooping and hollering of boys dressed as hop Aline

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Speaker 2: Cassidy and girls dressed as Annie Oakley, and they'd be Indians,

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Speaker 2: and they'd be all sorts of fun. And I'm sure

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Speaker 2: you can remember the days, did now? Did you Cowboys

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Speaker 2: and Indians? Or were you a little bit older?

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Speaker 1: No, I had a younger I had a Cowboys suit

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Speaker 1: when I was young, when I was about seven, I

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Speaker 1: suppose six or seven, and I got a photo of

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Speaker 1: me in it, which will never see the light of

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Speaker 1: day beyond the walls of our house.

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Speaker 2: Damn. I wish i'd known that. I would have put

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Speaker 2: that in a paper on Monday.

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Speaker 1: But so, yeah, we played it as kids, Cowboys and Indians.

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Speaker 1: It was still a thing. I don't think it is now.

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Speaker 1: If I said to my kids my boys about did

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Speaker 1: you you never played Cowboys and Indians? They'd look at

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Speaker 1: me as if I was nuts. What do you mean?

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Speaker 2: Well, well, I don't think you know. Especially the Indian

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Speaker 2: side of it is really seen these days, is very

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Speaker 2: politically correct, but never the left back and back in

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Speaker 2: the back in the day, you know, we go when

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Speaker 2: John Wayne was on the on the screen, you know,

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Speaker 2: with his Marshall's badge and his twin Colt forty five.

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Speaker 2: You know, things were all okay because John Wayne, john

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Speaker 2: Wayne was there. He was protecting us all from the baddies.

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Speaker 2: And I'm wondering how many of your listeners and I

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Speaker 2: wonder how many we would have there who went along

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Speaker 2: to see William Boyd pop along Cassidy when he visited

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Speaker 2: the Adelaide Oval back in nineteen nineteen sixty four. Goodness,

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Speaker 2: I think he came or was it nineteen fifty four? Sorry,

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Speaker 2: nineteen fifty four, So you know, I'm going back a

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Speaker 2: long time here. But there might be other people who

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Speaker 2: will remember things like Davy Crockett Kingdom of the Wild Frontier.

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Speaker 2: Do you know the song?

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Speaker 1: I know the song and it was still on TV

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Speaker 1: as a series when I was little, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And I rememberd had you could become a member of

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Speaker 2: the Davy Crockett Club and be a Davy Crocketeer and

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Speaker 2: you've got a you sent in and you've got a

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Speaker 2: special certificate and badge, and I think I think there

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Speaker 2: was a minimal charge made for that and that money

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Speaker 2: then went to charity. But you know, so radio, there

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Speaker 2: were radio cereals, We had radio cereals. Of course, Australia

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Speaker 2: had its very own cowboy, Smoky Dawson, who remembers listening

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Speaker 2: to Smokey Dawson on the wireless. Now I'm I'm I'm

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Speaker 2: getting very old.

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Speaker 1: Well you called it a wireless Well, well, of.

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Speaker 2: Course I realized I realized how old I'm getting when

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm starting to talk about Smoky Dawson and his

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Speaker 2: ranch Jinder Warrabelle, how about that? And and he's now

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Speaker 2: he had a faithful sidekick who was called Jingles, and

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Speaker 2: who was the evil outlaw. There's anybody else in the world.

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Speaker 2: I still remember Smoky Dowson, Please ring and tell me that.

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Speaker 1: I'm not that old, Okay, all right now? He would

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Speaker 1: have made numerous trips around the country and certainly to Adelaide.

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Speaker 2: I thought, oh absolutely. And he was hugely popular later

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Speaker 2: old age. I think he only died. I think he

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Speaker 2: died back in about two thousand and Yeah, there it is.

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Speaker 2: He died in two thousand and eight at the age

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Speaker 2: of ninety four. So he lived along and very fruitful luck.

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Speaker 2: But you know, I mean he was a singer and

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Speaker 2: an entertainer, but he was also a radio star in

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Speaker 2: a cowboy. I don't know that we ever had cowboys

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Speaker 2: in Australia as such. I mean we had drovers and.

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Speaker 1: You know, the we didn't have ranches either, did we.

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Speaker 1: We had stations.

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Speaker 2: Stations, Yeah, a smoke he had a ranch, of course.

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Speaker 2: Well once again he was pinching something from America. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: look westerns. How many how many people remember going to

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Speaker 2: the Saturday afternoon Matinez. Now that's where we mostly saw

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Speaker 2: the Westerns. You know, you'd see people like hop Along Cassidy.

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Speaker 2: Gene Autry was always one of my favorites. He was

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Speaker 2: he was always the very quiet gunfighter who had reformed.

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Speaker 2: He was actually a super fast on the gun, but

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Speaker 2: wear a gun anymore. Of course, until the baddies came

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Speaker 2: and then dramatic music. Geene or Tree would strap on

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Speaker 2: are in for a really bad time. We had Roy Rodgers.

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Speaker 2: How many people remember Gary Cooper Alan bladd as Shane.

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Speaker 2: How many people remember that Shane movie? That was just

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Speaker 2: it was one of the great classic westerns. We had

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Speaker 2: the girls too. Yeah, no, go on, I was going

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Speaker 2: to say we had the girls too. We had we

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Speaker 2: had Annie Oakley. I think it was Betty Hutton who

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Speaker 2: played Annie Oakley. And there was Dale Evans. She used

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Speaker 2: to ride alongside Roy Rogers, Doris Day. She was Calamity.

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Speaker 2: Jane Barbara Stanwick was often the She was often in

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Speaker 2: the cowboy movies or cowgirl move She was usually a

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Speaker 2: the townfolk from carrying on their normal daily This Joan Crawford.

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Speaker 2: She was always a baddie. Well, she was also a badi.

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Speaker 2: I think she occasionally played a goodie. But who remembers

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Speaker 2: Lee Marvin and people like Jack Palance. And there was

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Speaker 2: another very nasty baddie too. What was his name? Jack

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Speaker 2: E Lamb. He was always a really bad baddie had one.

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Speaker 2: He had one. He had bulging eyes and one of

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Speaker 2: really threatening. You know. Randolph Scott was one of the

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Speaker 2: and they were quite often because we had cereals at

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Speaker 2: the Madnees and they'd go from week to week. And

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Speaker 2: so you know, the baddie had the baddie had taken

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Speaker 2: the heroine and strapped her to the railroad line and

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Speaker 2: hop along. Cassidy was still a long way off in

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Speaker 2: the distance and the train was coming and the train

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Speaker 2: was heading towards her at one hundred mile an hour

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Speaker 2: and she was and she was tied to the railway line.

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Speaker 2: How on earth could she get out? Yeah? I know,

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Speaker 2: but she always did. The always arrived in time.

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Speaker 1: I remember the heroine has always been Penelope pit Stop,

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Speaker 1: but that might have been the wacky Races.

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Speaker 2: Bosibly. I don't remember Penelope pit Stop. But yes, there

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Speaker 2: was a wonderful era. I mean totally innocent of course,

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Speaker 2: because it was only later, you know, with movies like

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Speaker 2: Dancers with Wolves with Kevin Costner, which was you know,

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Speaker 2: I think came out in the eighties that we all

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Speaker 2: started to appreciate that the Indians weren't really all that bad.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they were just trying to protect their land goodness.

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Speaker 2: But you know, of course they were always painted as

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Speaker 2: the whooping hollering with their bows and arrows, and they

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Speaker 2: were always trying to kill the goodies and then they'd

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Speaker 2: send in the cavalry and so it would go. So

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Speaker 2: it was a wonderful era, and I just wonder how

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Speaker 2: many people identify with that era now, remember that era?

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Speaker 2: Remember going to the movies on Saturday afternoon and seeing

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Speaker 2: hop Along Cassidy. Whether anybody saw hop Along when he

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Speaker 2: actually came to Adelaide back in nineteen fifty four at

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Speaker 2: the Norwood Oval, norwill and yeah, Norwood Oval, And not

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Speaker 2: only that, but I think he was in town as well,

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Speaker 2: like he visited I think he visited the Children's hospital

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Speaker 2: at the time, and he was a huge star. And

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Speaker 2: so these are the people that we'd love to hear

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Speaker 2: about it. Absolutely if they're still.

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Speaker 1: With well, I reckon you've done a good job selling it,

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Speaker 1: because the board is three quarters full. But there's still

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Speaker 1: a bit of room. You can join people that are there,

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Speaker 1: including Madeline, Trevor, Neville Allen, and others. Eight double two

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Speaker 1: three double O double oh. We will take a quick break, Bob,

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Speaker 1: and come back with people's memories of the glorious days

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Speaker 1: of Western's on at the big screen. The silver screen

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Speaker 1: in Adelaide will be back after these works