[…]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[…]
[…] crew. It was an OB crew, you see, who really only shot sports actually. And they couldn’t handle the sound system so in the end we went to the Odeon. I think we did it in the Odeon. That was right wasn’t it I think?DARROL BLAKE: The Odeon or ABC. It was a cinema anyway[…]
[…]cal Indie cinema saying be a cinema manager missing recruiting. So I thought I'd have a go at it day. I ended up in a junior assistant manager at the Odeon cinema in Bristol and saw the sound of music for two tears nonstop. But so that's how I got into that pictures that way.BG What did you have to […]
[…]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 […]
[…]e open by then, three-quarters were owned by individuals.Rodney Giesler : As many as that?John Hogarth : Oh yes, amazing, people nowadays thinking of Odeon and MGM and National Amusements and so on - chains of cinemas. The independent is very much the rarity. But in those days the majority of cinema[…]
[…]orld transport. We've got those four films that's right in 1950 I've got the program decided that these got to be shown in a big worry. So we are the Odeon Leicester Square. I think everybody but the Queen was invited full full house with refreshments, everything else. And they went over lush progra[…]
