[…] – 11 were built by Technicolor; story about LW Oliver.00:22:55 – 00:42:00 L W Oliver took BP to a screening of the first Eastmancolor tripack at the Odeon London; it was thought that the process wouldn’t take off; BP talks about setting up the plant in China; WB mentions the trouble they had mainta[…]
[…]ny of these middle-sized cities that were very good theatre dates lost the theatre and those theatres didn’t come back until they’d built these great Odeon’s and palaces. Then that theatre generally became a Rep theatre. Margaret Thomson: Ah, I see, so that’s the process.Jean Anderson: So that […]
[…]d on top of the old Alhambra Theatre in Leicester Square. He had a super palatial luxury penthouse overlooking Leicester Square. Before it became the Odeon Leicester Square. That was the old Alhambra. So that was that. And he watched the show, from the back of the stalls, took us up for drinks and m[…]
[…] why we liked this film so much. I very well remember in Leicester Square, it was the week that My Darling Clementine was shown, it was billed on the Odeon, Leicester Square, and at the same time Great Expectations, I think, was showing at the Gaumont and Powell and Pressburger, A Matter Of Life And[…]
[…]ah. Which, in fact, my parents thought was a marvellous idea. And my starting in the film industry was going to be the assistant manager of the Kerr? Odeon, which wasn't exactly the career movie. So doubtless, I would have been a very rich and successful gentleman have I taken this job up. But in fa[…]
[…] the top. Going back to Tommy Morgan he was living in Kelvin Court which was regarded as terribly posh in Glasgow, because it was like 1930s art deco Odeon type flats and he'd got two of them one on top of the other. And when I told him I got this flat in Claremont Terrace, he wanted to know what th[…]
[…] of radio. I was in schools, talks at BBC, went to Oxford Circus and Bush House which were the overseas stations, and then ended up in variety in the Odeon Hall which was terrific, I mean it was quite unlike anything else I’d ever been in or worked in, and I was enjoying it, I had, I was having a gr[…]
[…]at all!John Legard: No it's a totally different experience.Hugh Stewart: And contact with an audience I miss terribly. Going and seeing, going to the Odeon, Harrow, on a Saturday afternoon, packed full of mums and dads and kids, that's all gone.Alan Lawson: Yes, yes.Hugh Stewart: And I do miss that […]
[…]s country,Sid Cole  35:23  and you see people queuing, whichSpeaker 2  35:28  in this area. So cannon have got a four clicks, and Odeon had five. They just win the last month, added a new one, made it six. So they must be doing well. We have one art house, so called the Duke of Y[…]
[…]er one roof,Keith Ewart  37:34  probably train set again, wasn't it not like the armored cars? You know, I wanted a train set. I wanted the Odeon woman when I was a boy. They've drawn it down now. I like the colored lights on the curtains.Roy Fowler  37:48  Well, it's awesome. Wo[…]
