[2] The stage was on wheels to be moved for boxing matches[3] and the floor was concrete in anticipation of future roller-skating events and social dances.
The film was shown "without the slightest hitch except that Mr Allwright while attending to the engine got his hand caught in a rapidly moving belt and badly lacerated several fingers".
[10][11] Harris arranged for a member of the Warhiti tribe "to sing songs and burn sticks to prevent any unwanted rainfalls during the screening.
Large crowds gathered along Smith Street to catch a glimpse of the film's stars Ngarla Kunoth and Robert Tudawali, better known as Bob Wilson, who were permitted to sit in the balcony with the Northern Territory Administrator Frank Wise and his wife.
His son, Tom Harris Junior, renovated the theatre, turning the projector room into a flat where he and his wife would live for a number of years.