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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] I applied for a job that started in an old cinema The Ritz hereford the old cinema and was successful […]
[…]as old enough to leave school and had to find a place of work. Influenced by my stepfather to some extent. I applied for a job that started in an old cinema The Ritz hereford the old cinema and was successful in getting a position as a trainee. projectionist And in those days of course the trainee p[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] vested in the BECTU History Project. David Robson, one time cinema projectionist, television telecine operator, recording engineer, one of the […]
[…]r: Alan LawsonInterviewee: David Robson[Tape 1, Side 1]The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. David Robson, one time cinema projectionist, television telecine operator, recording engineer, one of the pioneers of the BECTU History Project. Interviewer Alan Lawson. Rec[…]
[…] PM BIOGRAPHY: Ella Mallet was employed at the New Gallery Cinema, Regent Street as part of the orchestra from May […]
[…] in.Roy Fowler : Yes.Ella Mallett : And when sound came in, well I really didn't know what to think. Life had ended! So I put an advertisement in The Cinema, the weekly magazine. And I had an answer from Chancery Lane Ballroom [Bowmans/Beaumans?] Theatres. I bet you know [May Line???], don't you - t[…]
