LongfordLad
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Fri 18th Jul 2014 5:57pm
Shame! And what would they propose to do with the land? Oh, no - it's obvious - build a cinema. |
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LongfordLad
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Fri 18th Jul 2014 6:52pm
On 16th Jul 2014 8:27pm, dutchman said:
Whatever the Coventry Evening Telegraph reported about CinemaScope (as opposed to its contemporaneous cinema listings) in its news columns - one article claiming (retrospectively, I would assume) that the Standard was the first CinemaScope screen in the city seems folly. Shouldn't we take into account the history of the film industry, an industry now having a century under its belt? Why would a local cinema (a second-run cinema) install such a startlingly new system if there were no CinemaScope first-run exhibitors in the city centre?
Maybe I quibble!
On 16th Jul 2014 6:23pm, LongfordLad said:
Consequently, so far as I can imagine, a view of the movies playing in Coventry, and at what cinemas, might - through the CET archives - reveal all. Is anyone up for such a task?
Coventry Telegraph articles on the subject are contradictory, one says the Standard was the first to have CinemaScope and another says the Gaumont was. (Read enough articles and every cinema in Coventry is claimed to have had it first!)
Rank's own archives record the Coventry Gaumont as having CinemaScope lenses and Gaumont-Kalee stereo sound added to its GK21 projectors between January and May 1954. Various sources suggest the first CinemaScope film shown at the Gaumont was "How to Marry a Millionaire".
Several sources give 1955 as the date when the Alexandra installed a CinemaScope screen and stereo sound.
There probably is no definitive answer.
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LongfordLad
Toronto |
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Thu 24th Jul 2014 6:17pm
Given the silence, I imagine that there is a consensus that I quibble. |
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David H
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Sat 26th Jul 2014 2:27pm
I personally didn't know or care what aspect ratio films were when I went to the pictures in Coventry as a lad, although I must admit to a small frisson of excitement when the screen curtains opened a bit more upon the start of the main feature, heralding a wide-screen film. Shame about the Ritz. I remember well going there regularly in the sixties to watch the latest lurid Hammer Horror film and to this day when one appears on the television, it takes me back to those happy days. |
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Dreamtime |
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ianknight
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Tue 5th Aug 2014 11:43am
The Standard cinema's 'claim to fame' was surely it's 70mm projection equipment and curved screen. The auditorium layout was such that the ends of the screen were within the start of your peripheral vision so giving a 'wraparound' effect.
I remember seeing 2001 A Space Odyssey there in 70mm and it was impressive - my folks also saw South Pacific there in 70mm and can remember Dad recounting how planes flew across the screen and their sound followed them. What eventually did for The Standard (I think) was the lack of 70mm source material - many studio's wouldn't pay for it but preferred Panavision and the auditorium was so large to accommodate the screen - it couldn't be broken down to multi screen easily whilst retaining the ability to show 70mm. I think the Cannon in Hertford Street eventually could show 70mm too but by then the format was dying. |
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Janey
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Thu 14th Aug 2014 2:42pm
Several years ago I was trying to identify old cinemas in Coventry and asked if anyone knew the name of one in the Foleshill Road. My question was published by the Coventry Evening Telegraph and I received a telephone call from a gentleman named Gil Robottom who told me he was researching the old cinemas in Coventry and was gathering information to make into a book. However, he said he could not find a sponsor to aid with the publishing costs. A few years ago I recall reading that Mr Robottom had sadly passed away and I believe his wife intended to carry on his work and publish a book. Does anyone know if this ever happened? I don't recall ever seeing such a book in the local history section of our bookshops. Question |
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pixrobin
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Thu 14th Aug 2014 2:58pm
Coventry Picture Palaces by Gil Robottom, Mercia Cinema Society, 2009, 280pp, £14.95 post free from Mercia Sales, 29 Blackbrook Court, Durham Road, Loughborough, Leics LE11 5UA
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Midland Red
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Thu 21st Aug 2014 1:25pm
Posted on another thread, an article about The Banba Club, at the former Redesdale Cinema
On 30th Jul 2014 10:29am, morgana posted:
Banba Club
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