[…]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[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ingsingle, I mean if I had a family I mean I would say to anyone, go to Newcastle and you’ll have a lovely life, because there’s the Tyneside and the Odeon, so you’ve got plenty of cinema, there’s the Theatre Royal and the Gulbenkian, plenty of theatre.SF: You’re halfway to Edinburgh.You’re halfway […]
[…]s non-commercial and no good. And the way he could insist on Del being no good was that, in those days, the Rank Organisation owned two circuits, the Odeon and Gaumont. And if Del made a film, John Davis would put it in the worst cinema at the worst time of the year to do it down. He would put it in[…]
[…]t a U certificate film with a nice difficult film which meant that you had to go in with accompanied by an adult. And we used to queue up outside the Odeon interactive and we'd be about seven eight nine ten of us and we're used to accost adults who are going in and ask them if they take us in or tak[…]
