[…]wever, by this time they were fully fledged professional musicians, I used to go along, and of course my father was the musical director of the Angel Cinema, Islington, and the pianist used to strum a nice waltz or something, irrespective of what was going up on the screen, and my Father wouldn’t ac[…]
[…]o disgusted by the general low standard of Infantryequipment and Infantry training and we also collected films, we got some German films from theArmy cinematograph Corps the AKC, we got some Russian films.Taylor/Peet: What kind of films?Denis Forman: The German films were like things like Victory in[…]
[…] had agreed with the Government they would show so every cinema had to show it. It was twenty minutes to […]
[…] I was shown around on my induction tour. I suppose you'd call it one of the buildings that was pointed out to me, was there it is. That's the oldest cinema in the world, to which I replied, Why is it falling down then? Because it was in a terrible state. It really looked dilapidated. And that was t[…]
[…] Indeed, yes. though. He moved into recording programmes where I was at the time, we were together at 200 Oxford Street, later he moved into the cinema industry. John Ammonds 15:37 Whatever. I then, they asked me if I'd like to go down to Bristol where variety departm[…]
[…]and I think I was nine, nine years old, by which time we were living, we'd moved from Bella Ricky, we moved to Lyon See, in Essex, I was taken to the cinema for the first time, and I look forward to this with enormous anticipation. It was a great excitement in my life, I was at least going to see pi[…]
[…]ly have interested me more because way back in, as a child there was an uncle who as it were conditioned my very, very early childish interest in the cinema. He used to take me to the old Royalty Cinema in Kensington High Street, which was the first cinema ever in the Royal Borough, and in fact the […]
[…] - my Uncle, my Mother's Uncle worked in the Palace Cinema. So he would come along often for a piece […]
[…]l, BECTU grammar school, yes, whereRoy Fowler 3:33 was barters, the grammar school.Unknown Speaker 3:36 It is now the Granada cinema of grammarRoy Fowler 3:42 school. Right. It's no longer the longer the Granada cinema is the Granada bingoSpeaker 1 3:47 &nbs[…]
[…]s, they used to have stone battles, between the two schools you see...Rodney Giesler: In the streets?Larry Allen: In the street. So I opened up three cinemas there you know, as a boy. Like, one after the other, 'till I got this big shed.Rodney Giesler: How do you mean, you opened up?Larry Allen: Wel[…]