Sun Pictures

The world's oldest operating outdoor cinema, opened on 9 December 1916 by master pearler Ted Hunter in a Carnarvon Street tin building that had previously housed the Yamasaki family's general store and a Noh theatre. Open-air seating still under the Broome night sky from October to April, with planes from the airport overhead. Guinness Book listed since 2004; National Estate since 1989; State Heritage since 1995. Marisa Ferraz and Ross de Wit have run it since 1997. The first film was a 1913 silent racing drama, Kissing Cup.