[…]r a rise. I think I was getting 15 shillings a week then what as the projections as third and asked for rise and it wasn't forthcoming. So I wrote to Odeons I wrote to Granada's Odeon has offered me a job as third at the Odeon Southall it was only half a crown a week but pride and all that I took it[…]
[…]es. We sold both to the independents and the circuits but we had a special circuits department who dealt with them but even at that stage you had the Odeon circuit, you had the Gaumont circuit, both of which were owned by the Rank Organisation, and of course the ABC circuit. So those were your main […]
[…] the best cinema in London, umm, 9, 9 screens. The Odeon Leicester Square went up about thirty seven I think, […]
[…]...there was The Warner, which was built mid thirties, and recently rebuilt. Umm...technically it’s the best cinema in London, umm, 9, 9 screens. The Odeon Leicester Square went up about thirty seven I think, didn’t it?CB: Oh, on the other side?I: On the side, yesCB: And...oh the other side of the s[…]
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You know, and the monopoly. I remember all the monopoly stuff, because he was trying to exhibit his own films, and, you know, he bought Odeon and all that kind of thing. I remember a lot of that going on. But... I don’t... I mean, there were... They seemed to be mixing the old and the […]
[…]e. And I think Frank may have been making his religious films, but he couldn't. He could sell his religious films and that's why he eventually bought Odeon and Gaumont because that was the only way he could get his religious films shown. But rank wasn't on the scene not in not as early as it's not i[…]
