Charles Picken - My Cinema LifeCHAPTER ONE - MY FORMATIVE YEARSFrom my earliest childhood the magic of the Cinema had been firmly entrenched in my life. In those days television had not yet begun its inexorable march into the living rooms of the nation and the weekly visit, or in my fort[…]
[…]bsp; And as my first question I want to ask you if, since your earliest days, since your school days, do you think it was always your aim to get into cinema? Why would it be?00:01:21 JIM WHITTELL: No question, I am third generation cinema operato[…]
[…]sion like the Grand National, the Cup Final and things, longer than the days before television, they did special editions, rushed the prints into the cinemas, and you worked through the night, it was quite fun that that. Quite fun. But it clearly wasn’t to be my long term future. A[…]
[…]interviewer is Mike dick, on cameras, John Luton. The interview number is eight to nine. The date is the 24th of April 2023. And we're filming at the cinema Museum in Kensington, London, which houses the most remarkable collection of cinema memorabilia collected over the last 70 years by the man sit[…]
[…] a trade association that represented movie theatres). The CEA urged cinema managers to train and employ women projectionists, although reports stressed […]
[…]den@btinternet.com.Alan Lawson 0:03 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU to history project.Robert Newman, known as Ted cinema projectionist for the Odeon and rank circuit cinemas, in the Birmingham area. Interviewer Alan Lawson, recorded on the 17th of November 1993. s[…]
[…]s such, because I would have said to know what the world was called projectionist in those days, but I want to be a chap that showed the films in the cinema. So when I was in front of this board to select a job and talking to set the other I didn't know anything about it, or more or less to them, it[…]
[…] all the shot down aircraft. I would head off on my bicycle via the police to to where there'd been incidents in the night. And I did all cinema criticism only only really, not based on looking at the film, just based on the handouts. But I would write skeptical bits about whether the ha[…]
[…]he age of approximately five years old. That film was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.SPEAKER: F1It attracted me even at that age the intimacy of the cinema. The magic of the beam of light coming out you couldn't see where it came from but I knew that when I after seeing a few films I turned my head[…]
