Photo - Capitol Open Air Theatre, Alice Springs - Courtesy "The Northern Territory Library"

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PHOTO - Capitol Open Air Theatre, Alice Springs - Courtesy “The Northern Territory Library”…Greg Lynch says - The Underdown family began building “The Capitol Open Air Theatre” on a block of land opposite the already established Alice Springs Hotel, cnr of Hartley St and Gregory Tce, and then looked around for an experienced operator. Snow Kenna took up the challenge, and the lease, and then moved his projection equipment into “The Capitol”, while Bill Burton was to ultimately move on to Tennant Creek with the idea of opening a show there. Neither of them could have been aware of the contribution they were to make over the ensuing decades as they pioneered cinema in Alice Springs & Tennant