[…] Goldwyn ÔÇö Mayer and was meant to be their flagship cinema in London, possibly in Europe. It was very, very […]
[…]rst: His sons have asked me the same question.Roy Fowler: What might be interesting are your memories of a film show at that time, what happened in a cinema.Eddie Dryhurst: Oh well I can tell you that because I used to practically haunt them! They used to have continuous performances from about five[…]
[…] as a projection box boy at the Prince of Wales Cinema (ABC), Harrow Road when he was fourteen. He went […]
[…]ry, what this 100 men undergo? Did you have a sort of film society that we were running in?Michael Clarke 8:34 West? No, what a wonderful cinema, which inside has an amazing tickle, like ruin, ruin with some everything except the bats flying about three stars to perceive the Raptors, one[…]
[…]ut 11 that I really became hooked and didn't really want to do anything else to earn a living.Unknown Speaker 5:43 Were you interested in cinema at the time as well?Speaker 2 5:46 Well, I was. I mean, insofar as everybody was or appeared to be in those days. I mean, we used t[…]
[…] all of these films, but most of them had through the Ministry of Information, I don't know how that worked, but most of them had released in general cinemas. Perhaps you know more about it, how Concanen Productions got into general release, but they did, they didMH: The MOI would have seen to it th[…]
[…]urteen and a half I suppose - no - yeah, fourteen and a half, I got a job at the ABC, 'Prince of Wales', Harrow Road. Basically I wanted to be in the cinema because we've all had toy projectors haven't we? [Laughs]Jim Shields: Yes! [Laughs]Peter Stroud: And the buggers bit, as you might say. The cin[…]