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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2016 19:00:41 GMT
Everything from Kia Ora adverts to memorable moments in films.
When I saw The Towering Inferno things were just getting exciting, something was collapsing I think, and suddenly the INTERMISSION came up.
The whole cinema groaned!
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Post by sqwerty on Jul 15, 2016 19:11:29 GMT
I thought you maybe meant, the actual cinemas! - with ashtrays behind each seat, usherettes with torches to guide you to your seat*, the interval where you could go and buy a little tub of ice cream (and cigarettes!) from a lady with an illuminated tray down the front, and Pearl and Dean advertising. Our local Odeon originally had one large screen with balcony seats and stalls. People would get sweets and stuff chucked down on them, unfortunately. I saw Saturday Night Fever there, my first X-rated film, as it was then.
* wish they'd bring them back, our Vue cinema is extremely dark, even before the film starts.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2016 19:16:34 GMT
Was Saturday Night Fever an X? I'd forgotten that.
I think I saw that 3 weeks running (there wasn't anything else to do in my town).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2016 19:17:29 GMT
LOVED the little tubs of ice cream with the wooden 'spoon'.
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Post by sqwerty on Jul 15, 2016 19:20:57 GMT
Was Saturday Night Fever an X? I'd forgotten that. I think I saw that 3 weeks running (there wasn't anything else to do in my town). Yes, it was - and I wasn't actually even 18! Think I got away with it  By today's standards, it was pretty tame, but the X-rating did make it feel like an illicit thrill. |
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Post by Netz on Jul 15, 2016 20:46:04 GMT
I remember taking two under-ten girls to see Disney's Beauty and the Beast at the cinema. The youngest one thought someone had brought a dog into the screening and kept looking around for it when the wolves appeared on screen. Surround sound was too realistic for her, bless!  |
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Post by carrie on Jul 15, 2016 21:01:34 GMT
I remember going to see The Aristocats with my parents and sister but the queue was around the corner, so we walked down the road to another cinema and saw Star Trek The Motion Picture. Strange that has stayed in my memory.
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Post by Netz on Jul 15, 2016 21:18:14 GMT
That's reminded me of another thing, lol.
When Jurassic Park came out I queued up outside the cinema along with half of the population (it seemed!) at the time. Whilst waiting, I got out a book to read (can't remember if it was the JP book or not). After a while (& the queue still hadn't been let in), the person behind me commented to her friend that I'd probably finish the book before we all got in to see the film. |
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Post by sqwerty on Jul 15, 2016 21:39:37 GMT
That's reminded me of another thing, lol.
When Jurassic Park came out I queued up outside the cinema along with half of the population (it seemed!) at the time. Whilst waiting, I got out a book to read (can't remember if it was the JP book or not). After a while (& the queue still hadn't been let in), the person behind me commented to her friend that I'd probably finish the book before we all got in to see the film. Ha ha! Queues round the block, to see a new film. I can't remember an actual film, but it was a big event! |
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Post by Miranda on Jul 15, 2016 22:22:54 GMT
I will never forget going to see Star Wars in 1977. I was twelve years old and it was at the Gaumont and I went with my best friend. First time either of us had been allowed to go without grown-ups. And it was mind-blowing. That bit where the Millenium Falcon turned up to rescue Luke and when the Death Star blew up.... amazing on the big screen. The look of it and the sound and the costumes and the flying transport and the cantina, it just looked like nothing else before seen.
Never forget that.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2016 23:13:56 GMT
Westerns were all the thing when I was a kid.My first film was River of No Return.I was young enough not to realise, until years later, that Marilyn Monroe was in it.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2016 23:17:49 GMT
The last time I went to the cinema was in July 1988 in Leicester Square. I can't for the life of me remember what it was that I watched; I had been dragged along by a friend from Hull, not unwillingly, but not enthusiastically. From what I remember, it only confirmed that I didn't really like cinemas any more. It seemed that the magic had gone out of them, for me. Now, I tend to wait for DVD releases, or Amazon Prime.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2016 6:55:12 GMT
My stand out film was Jaws. We were in Brighton and saw it at a cinema with an extra wide screen, and we were quite near the front. We (the future and still current Mr F) jumped out of our skins several times and I was almost stunned, on the trip home on the bus, at how incredible it had been.
I still think Jaws is fab.
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Post by thecleaner on Jul 16, 2016 7:41:01 GMT
Going to the pictures on a Saturday morning, early 70's ....cost a shilling....5p.  |
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Post by sqwerty on Jul 16, 2016 8:02:01 GMT
I will never forget going to see Star Wars in 1977. I was twelve years old and it was at the Gaumont and I went with my best friend. First time either of us had been allowed to go without grown-ups. And it was mind-blowing. That bit where the Millenium Falcon turned up to rescue Luke and when the Death Star blew up.... amazing on the big screen. The look of it and the sound and the costumes and the flying transport and the cantina, it just looked like nothing else before seen. Never forget that. Ah yes, the Gaumont - Birmingham centre, sadly long gone now. The main Odeon on New Street became a concert venue, but there was a little Odeon on Smallbrook Queensway. Also the ABC Bristol Road, where I saw Top Gun. |
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