Ella Mallet

[…]h yes. Yes indeed, a famous name. Yes, I beg your pardon.Ella Mallett : She came in one morning with a playbill of the old Alhambra, which now is the Odeon, Leicester Square. I didn't know anything about that. Nothing... And she brought this in and was all the thing, and then at the bottom, about a […]

Ernest Marsh

[…]eover in a public show? Well, Ernest Marsh  11:29  the abbey gate was a small a small cinema. Put it this way, it wasn't the Odeon. The Odeon had a much bigger crew, and someone suggested, would I like to do it? And I don't remember the film now, but I remember doing it. Tha[…]

Jonathan Balcon

[…]to David because whilst we were down in Mevagissey and St Austell "The Way Ahead" came, came out and Mick sent for a copy and we all trooped into the Odeon in St Austell, after it had closed at 10.15 one evening, and watched "The Way Ahead". Which again as a film impressed me enormously and Mick mus[…]

Bob Narduzzo

[…] he used to play 9.5mm films borrowed from a local film library; his interest started when he was twelve; the local cinemas were the ABC, Gaumont and Odeon and BN would see every programme each week; he recalls seeing Metropolis on 9.5mm from the library at Burnt Oak (three 100ft reels of silent 9.5[…]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]ably figured that he could do some sort of deal with the Americans whereby ABC, which I think was the largest circuit then, slightly more houses than Odeon, he could perhaps do something with the Americans. But I don't think they were really interested with the product they had. However, while on th[…]
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