[…] preview here we had a very bad preview here which is interesting. The very first public screening of The Killing Fields was held at Wimbledon at the Odeon which is one of the few theaters then that was equipped with a double head system. We lost a lot of the audience many many many people walked pa[…]
[…] this man, he gave him some money to make this movie. He gave... I knew Oscar Deutsch because Stanley Bates, who's wife put up the original money for Odeon, he was at Marlborough with me, and I had a very good looking wife, and we used to go to openings of Oscar Deutsch's theatres and stand on the s[…]
[…]f photography at Blackpool; SS was posted to Leeming.00:10:00 – 00:10:50 SS was to photograph the RAF in colour with Oscar Deutsch (then chief of the Odeon circuit) and cameras were sent from Technicolor using the Technicolor monopack (the forerunner to Eastmancolor) which could only be processed at[…]
[…]remember most of the programme. At the same time I know I also went with Miss Potts to another theatre which does not exist anymore. It was where the Odeon is now.NS: Alhambra, Leicester Square?MD: That’s right-at the Alhambra. In the early thirties I saw Rene Blum’s Ballet Russes, but I[…]
[…]. One or two highlights. I did a command performance once, requested from Pinewood and I was selected to do the design. It was stage show held at The Odeon at Marble Arch and produced by Jack Hulbert and Herbert Wilcox. I designed the stage setting which consisted of a fantastic fairyland staircase,[…]
[…] – 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[…]
[…]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[…]
