Impact
John Cain, a former Victorian Premier, interviewed Kirby for his book on Australian entertainment pioneers, On with the Show. Kirby is credited in the book for being "one of the few people to judge correctly that TV would not kill cinema, 'and refused to scuttle out of it when his contemporaries were deserting it in droves'". He has also been described as "probably Australia's most visionary cinema or entertainment company entrepreneur".
Kirby also supported the local film industry and was a partner of Tim Burstall in Hexagon Productions, which made some of the early films of the Australian film renaissance such as Alvin Purple and Petersen.
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