Jack Rockett

[…] publicity and ‘showmanship’ and the crucial relationships between the local cinema manager, the press, the local community and the local authorities […]

Lindsay Anderson

[…]resting combination of being quite modest and arrogant. We did put on the back of Sequence contributions are welcome from any source on any aspect of cinema which was absolutely untrue. We didn't really receive contributions anyway but we weren't really interested in any points of view except our ow[…]

Jack Rockett

[…]88, ACTT History Project. The interview is with Jack Rockett at Glebelands on 22 August 1988, with Sid Cole.Sidney Cole: Jack, you spent your life in cinema distribution - how did you get into that originally?Jack Rockett: I saw an advert in the Daily Telegraph for office boy wanted.Sidney Cole: How[…]

Sydney Samuelson

[…]ning who were taking out the sweet wrappers and things and all they had to do was to prove that they had shown that film, that British film, in their cinema.And um, er he certainly must have got back in by writing, producing, directing and editing some Quota Quickies and in fact the photograph on my[…]

Charles Cooper

[…] films, initially in conjunction with George Hoellering at the Academy Cinema. In the 1960s he opened the Paris Pullman in […]

Charles Cooper

[…]taries you know, showing what was happening. It was completely opposite and different to the sort of newsreels, as you know that you would see in the cinema, the Pathe newsreels. And they really dealt with life and conditions. I remember for example going out, we were always filming the hunger march[…]

HP0103 Roy Ward Baker-Transcript

[…] Goldwyn ÔÇö Mayer and was meant to be their flagship cinema in London, possibly in Europe. It was very, very […]

Clyde Jeavons

[…]y been in love with film for a long time before that, but that’s when I developed my interest at another level, and discovered what we might call art cinema, where there was popular cinema. Before that I had done some journalistic training on a financial paper. God knows what I did there, because I […]

Rebecca O'Brien

[…]just, I. I didn't think about it. I just watched it, and I watched and the other thing, I mean, every few months, we might go to see a musical in the cinema or something. We'd go to the annually, we'd go to the theater at the king's theater, as you would know. But the thing I loved most was going to[…]
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