[…]hese papers if you let me have a few cigarettes”, which they did. And one of my best customers was a girl on the front office of the Leicester Square cinema. Couldn’t get her Players fags [slang: cigarettes] or Ardath or whatever it was So, she’d give me tickets to there. “Are you going to Leicester[…]
[…]olourful, and that interested me in films. In Ideal films I was office boy to start with and graduated up a bit to farm out posters and stills to run cinemas and that sort of thing. Made lots of mistakes, obviously, sent the wrong posters and things like that, but anyway. There I was for quite a lon[…]
[…]was okay, but it was again a learning curve. Anyway, I then came back to London.SF: How old are you now, roughly?Twenty-two, twenty-three.SF: Had the cinema, the industry – not the industry – but films, impinged a great deal on you?No. I mean films had, one of my first film memor[…]
[…]ers of the local Ross Operatic and Dramatic Society, and I can remember them putting on The Desert Song and all those things, and the local cinema became a theatre for the occasion. And so that was really the only sort of background of, you know, entertainment I had.I'm sorry, what, what w[…]
[…] And I seem to think what I saw it at the London Polytechnic or something I was taken by someone.Interviewer 10:19 That's the Polytechnic cinema that in upper Regent Street. what and where you generally interested in, in cinema, particularly,Geoff Labram 10:28 as the years we[…]
[…] obituaries of people who were connected with the theatre and cinema. Would I be interested in doing the obituary of […]
[…] The Desert Song and all those things, and the local cinema became a theatre for the occasion. And so that […]
[…] I was about four or five, I was given the little magic lantern, which had little Disney lantern slides and so on, my brother was given the hand turn cinematograph, my brother is five years older now. And it performed the Cinematic Arts who bought a toy shop and the film that to use the bits of 35 m[…]
