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Vol 54 No 2 ISSN 1479-0882 March / April 2020 Vol 54 No 2 ISSN 1479-0882 March / April 2020 The Grade II listed in Leeds, which closes in March for a year’s refurbishment; photo taken June 2005 – see Newsreel p18 The fourteen-screen in Manchester’s Belle Vue, which may be demolished; photo taken August 2005 – see Newsreel p20 In the Miscellany on p18 of the last Bulletin, I featured a 50p coin Company limited by guarantee. Reg. No. 04428776. produced by the Royal Mint to commemorate 30 years of Wallace and Registered address: 59 Harrowdene Gardens, Teddington, TW11 0DJ. Gromit. The heading for this item was Caeseus Praestans, which is Registered Charity No. 1100702. Directors are marked in list below. the inscription on the coin. However, I forgot to say what it meant. Apparently it is Latin for ‘Cracking Cheese’! I had an email from a member who thought we had given out his Full Membership (UK)..................................................................................£31 address. The CTA will never reveal a member’s personal details – to Full Membership (UK under 25s)...............................................................£16 do so would be in breach of the Data Protection Act. If you wish to Overseas (Europe Standard AirMail & World Economy)............................£40 contact another member, write your letter and put it in a sealed and Overseas (World Standard AirMail)............................................................£52 Associate Membership (UK & Worldwide).................................................£10 stamped envelope. Send this in another envelope to the membership Life Membership (UK only).................................£480; aged 65 & over £380 secretary (address opposite) with a covering letter stating the name Life Membership (Overseas)............................AirMail £750; Economy £600 of the member you wish it forwarded to. Don’t forget to include your own name and address if you expect a reply. All membership and subscription enquiries should be sent to On the subject of emails, I keep getting emails purporting to have come from John Benzing. Many members will recall that John sadly Items for possible inclusion in the Bulletin should be sent to passed away a few years ago. I’m sure I don’t need to remind you that such emails are spam and should be deleted without opening any attachment or clicking on any link contained therein. I’m sorry to report I am still being sent photos that are of far too low a resolution to print in the Bulletin. In one case (it was a scan of a [[email protected]] 47 The Street, Old Basing, Basingstoke, RG24 7BX newspaper page) the image was so bad it was unreadable. Please send me the highest resolution you have available – I can scale it down if 11 Tarrant Avenue, Witney, OX28 1EE necessary but I cannot go the other way. Also, if photographing indoors [[email protected]] or in poor light, please try to steady your camera or use a tripod. If there 59 Harrowdene Gardens, Teddington, TW11 0DJ is significant camera shake, the picture is unusable. Remember – what [[email protected]] looks OK on the small screen of a mobile phone may not be suitable for Flat One, 128 Gloucester Terrace, London, W2 6HP Chairman: publication in the Bulletin. 45 Arnold Road, Bow, London, E3 4NU [[email protected]] Back in December we went to the cinema in Barnsley to see Members: as main committee plus Rob Chesterfield, Tim Hatcher, The Aeronauts in 70mm. As usual, operator Rob Younger put on an Jane Jephcote, Mark Price, Vicky Simon & Peter Wylde excellent presentation. It was a rare sight to see two 70mm prints on [[email protected]] the platter in the projection room, as they were also showing Joker in 14 Ivychurch Gardens, Cliftonville, Margate, CT9 3YG 70mm. It was an afternoon matinée performance and the system 73 Cressy House, Hannibal Road, London, E1 3JF issued allocated seats. There were probably fewer than 30 people in [[email protected]] the audience (in an auditorium with over 600 seats) but when we got 228 Malpas Road, Brockley, London, SE4 1DH to our reserved seats, we found someone else sitting in them! We simply sat elsewhere. Google StreetView has been inside the 34 Pelham Road, London, N22 6LN [[email protected]] – and several other cinemas too – so you can appreciate the interiors. See also Cinema Business p23. 69A Mill Street, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 2EE [[email protected]] [[email protected]] About 35 miles south of Barnsley 66 Woodside Road, High Wycombe, HP13 7JB is the National Trust property [[email protected]] Hardwick Hall (more glass than 13 Tennyson Court, Paddockhall Road, Haywards Heath, RH16 1EZ wall) in North Derbyshire. It was [[email protected]] 11 Merker Terrace, Linlithgow, EH49 6DD built in the 1590s [I know it’s not / [[email protected]] a cinema] by the formidable Bess 3 Swan Lane, Ystalyfera, Swansea, SA9 2JB of Hardwick, the richest woman in [[email protected]] England after Queen Elizabeth I. 4 Oxford Way, Stockport, SK4 1JR We visited there a few years ago [[email protected]] and met a costumed actress, Far Ends, 28 Courtenay Road, Lower Parkstone, Poole, BH14 0HD dressed up as Bess [R]. She had Emma Beeston, Kevin Gooding, Lynda Hillman, Tim McCullen, Ken Roe, David Simpson been invited there for an interview Please use [ ] if uncertain to whom to address an e-mail but when she arrived, she found it enquiry; this address will be monitored and e-mails redirected if necessary. was an interview for local radio. Harry Rigby, CTA Bulletin Editor Members are invited to submit items for possible publication to the Bulletin Editor. However, it is stressed that the publication of an item does not necessarily imply that it reflects the views of the Cinema Theatre Association, its Committee or its Bulletin Editor. It is assumed that submissions are for publication, unless stated otherwise; items may be shortened or edited at the discretion of the Editor. Please state if you require items to be returned and enclose SAE, otherwise everything will be passed on to the CTA Archive. Members and non-members are reminded that they attend visits The 2019 edition of Picture House was dispatched to members by entirely at their own risk and no responsibility can be accepted by the second-class post from the printer on Friday 21 February. Anyone Cinema Theatre Association or the owners of the buildings for any accidents or injury sustained during the course of any visit. wishing to propose an article or feature for the 2020 edition should : The Cinema Theatre Association does not necessarily contact the editor as soon as possible at the address listed at right. recommend or endorse any products or services advertised in the Allen Eyles Bulletin or in any flyer or document included in any mailings to members. 2 Nominations for committee members are invited and should be sent to the Secretary, Adam Unger (address on p2) to arrive seven days before the meeting. As well as being distributed on the day, the minutes of last year’s meeting will be available in the members’ area of the CTA website from 13 April. A hard-copy can also be obtained from this date, by sending an SAE (C5 size) to the Secretary. There is no charge for attending just the AGM. Members Only! Loew's Gates Theatre, Bushwick, Brooklyn 1921 - 1977. Architect Thomas White Lamb, 2,925 seats. Now a church. £10 on the door. Guests welcome (includes wine and light refreshments). In the second event of this short series of presentations featuring international guest speakers, the CTA welcomes former cinema man- ager, distinguished theatre historian, author and tour guide Cezar Del Valle from Brooklyn, New York City. Fellow CTA member Cezar will be well-known to other members who attended the two successful visits In the third event of this short series of presentations featuring interna- to New York organised by Ken Roe and assisted by Cezar in November tional guest speakers, the CTA welcomes well-travelled cinema photog- 2000 ‘Big Theatres in the Big Apple’ and in October 2007 ‘Another rapher Simon Edelstein from Geneva, Bite of the Big Apple’. Many visitors to New York go to Manhattan and Switzerland, who will be assisted by Elisabeth miss out on some of the real treats to be found in the other Boroughs; Christeler. Both are long-standing members of Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten Island. the CTA. Simon has a knack of photographing In this presentation Cezar will take us on a tour around the less- cinemas that are interesting because they are beaten tracks of Brooklyn, which in 1941 had 233 cinemas operating, down on their luck or their luck has run out the most in any of the five Boroughs. Brooklyn had large movie and they have become abandoned. Simon has palaces in its Downtown; (3,618 seats, architect spent the past twelve years travelling with Thomas Lamb – 1918) now restored as home to the Brooklyn Taber- Elisabeth to countries around the world such nacle Choir; the (4,124 seats. architects Rapp & as USA, France, Italy, India, Morocco and Cu- Rapp – 1928) currently being restored as a concert venue; the ba, visiting far flung cities in over 30 countries, (3,246 seats, architect Thomas Lamb – 1925) searching out abandoned cinemas, which he has brought back to life demolished in 1978; the (4,088 seats, architect through his camera lens. He will be sharing with us his adventures to C Howard Crane – 1928) demolished in 1971. All these and more places most of us will probably never have the opportunity to visit. In were within a few minutes’ walk of each other! 2011 Simon published his 270-page photograph book Lux, Rex & There were also many splendid cinemas in other districts, such as Corso featuring the cinemas of Switzerland.
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