Edward Aneurin Williams

[…]g that I think had quite profound effect on me was that my mother used often, or seems to me often in the holidays, take me to the Regent Street poly cinema, where I remember seeing the flat he films, you know, I remember seeing a film called caribou about and the Polynesian Island film of that name[…]

Yvonne Littlewood

[…]ers of the local Ross Operatic and Dramatic Society, and I can remember them putting on The Desert Song and all those things, and the local cinema became a theatre for the occasion. And so that was really the only sort of background of, you know, entertainment I had.I'm sorry, what, what w[…]

Dennis Main Wilson

[…]DMW: Yes, indeed.  In Berlin - the Berlin dialect is hilarious it- it's funnier than cockney, all the hard consonants go soft like I went to the cinema “Ich bin ins kino gegangen” in Deutsch in Berlin even it's … “Is bin in kino yeyanyen”  and it's all very soft. We had this old cow, Frau […]

Harry Miller

[…]invented this machine for cobwebs, on a drill with rubber solution.  Now we went out to do this film and the girl who played the lead, she was a cinema usherette that Harry Lachman had found and was going to make her a star.   I think she got £7 a week, plus hair-dos and dresses and things[…]

Peter Tanner

[…]he said Stratford, I thought he meant Stratford on Avon, I said Oh yes Stratford on Avon, he said no Stratford le Bow in the East End. He said it's a cinema. At 11 o'clock the audience will be out and we're going to record the organ in the cinema. You be there. So I said fine. He said I'll pay you £[…]

Tilly Day

[…]es every time then. It was one of them.Sidney Cole: Yes. Did you go - apart from going to premiers of pictures you'd worked on, didyou go to the cinema much yourself?Tilly Day: Yes, when I had the time.Sidney Cole: Yes, sure. Well it could be very difficult, because we often worked ve[…]
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