[…]Hollycroft Avenue in Hampstead in 1926, February 16. And I was so long in arriving that my father went off, I think it was my father, went off to the cinema thinking I wasn't going to arrive that night, and I crept in I think. I was born just beforemidnight on February 16th And we, my father was apa[…]
[…] the headmaster thought I would be better in a trade than in clerical work. So I think was a toss up whether I became apprentice to cabinet making or cinematograph engineering. You know, so. But anyway, it was cinematograph engineering.Roy Fowler 4:17 How many openings bill were there in[…]
[…]the British Film Institute later was in in the corner of great Russell Street. And I think this site was sold way back in the 20s. The Dominion Cinema, for instance, and the Horseshoe pub, are all built on that site where the brewery used to be when I first remember it.Stephen Peet 3:48 […]
[…]laxation? Going to the pictures?Reg Sutton: Well it was really like anybody else entertainment, from a youngster when we use to pay four pence at the cinema in Acton and climb back under the seats to the sixpennies to get a better seat when nobody was looking in the days of Hoot Gibson and Tom Mix a[…]
[…] youngster when we use to pay four pence at the cinema in Acton and climb back under the seats to […]
[…]radio while they used to find you a job in those days, and I got a job in a radio shop in Weybridge. But I wasn't too happy there. And I got into the cinema by going to I love cinema in those days. And we used to go on Wednesday afternoon when the when the shop was closed. We closed on Wednesdays. A[…]
[…]cluding some thrillers how they ever got on there. I don't know but it made a tremendous tremendous is one of the only things I can remember from the cinema is there's a there was a villain, a real villain a murderer, and he was hiding in someone's room. And he was about to come out and attack them.[…]
[…]hich I think one of them ended up in the Roundhouse whether it still is there. I don't know what happened. But he used to go around photographing old cinemas and his what happened to his archives as presume he joined some organisation that it was almost he was a sad individual and he just felt that […]
[…]ose days was listening to jazz in the London clubs ‘cause I was a great jazz enthusiast. INTERVIEWER: And when was your first contact with cinematography and 3-D? How did you sort of drift into that side of it? CHARLES SMITH: Well, that didn't happen till the end of the War. During t[…]
[…]ng that sort of thing, it was getting too costly to send a crew out simply to do one match for one, for a one-off show.Roy Fowler: You mean only that cinema would play that particular story? Just in that reel or would it go into all the reels?Norman Fisher: Yes. It was a flyer in a single copy. Anyw[…]
