bhowells

Yes you are correct, the travelogue was inluded as a short when Brian did the rounds originally. Do you also remember a short animated film being on the bill as well. This was a film by Terry Gilliam called,"The Christmas Card."

I have a feeling that this might have been a film Gilliam did pre Python if not certainly a remake of something he had done previously.

Automotivehistorian

The last one that I remember was THE LAST DETAIL and EASY RIDER as a billed Nicholson offering at the late, lamented Hounslow West Odeon.

winsfordtown

Mentions of 'Life of Brian' reminds me of the last double bill I saw when it was paired 'Airplane' in 1982. A very loose connection to say the least

hitchawk

How about this for a double release, "Grindhouse-Planet.Terror", including a (much more interesting-looking title) "Machette"
Oops, sorry just realised that this is way off topic,way off site indeed.my apologies.
(please don't hang me, it's my first day!)

avalard

We held our Hammer Horror double-bill last night, and I think the whole thing went off fairly well.

We used the private "Excelsior" cinema which is near where I live in County Down. A great little cinema complete with period fittings. We had displays of posters and lobby cards (well resized reproductions owing to limited space) in the foyer and then the screening itself included a bunch of trailers, a 1959 newsreel I'd found about monkeys in space, the short Hammer film, O'Hara's Holiday, then the two features - The Mummy and The Man Who Could Cheat Death.

A long programme but everyone seemed to get into the spirit of it. Refreshments were served in the form of ice lollies and tip tops to guzzle on.

And everyone got a couple of little things to take home - in this case a sheet of Mummy lobby cards - with each of the cards stamp sized. I also got my class members a presentation pack of the new Hammer/Carry On Stamps as well.

My girlfriend did say that she thought it was a rather long evening and we should only have had the one feature, or dropped the short but as I said to her, she rather missed the point. And everyone had been well-briefed as to the duration and nature of the night.

http://www.unofficialhammerfilms.com
The UNofficial Hammer Films Site

Bunnyboy

I remember seeing Gregory's Girl and Chariots of Fire on together one afternoon. Must of been around 1981/82.

I also remember seeing Superman in 1978 and it had an interval in the middle for ice-cream!!

lupinpooter

The Riverside Studios in Hammersmith show lots of double features

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Modular

If I remember correctly, the old Ealing Odeon (in Northfields Avenue) used to show double bills of previously released films in the latter half of the Seventies when I was a kid during the school holidays.

Among others I recall were Live and Let Die / Man with the Golden Gun, and at least one pair of Pink Panther films.

I think the last double bill I went to (1984-ish) was a pair of the Emmanuelle films (at the Ealing ABC)... but we won't go into that!

batman

The last double bill I went to featured two Paul Naschy werewolf films at the ABC in Norwich. That cinema later became a Cannon and is now a nightclub.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

George Bailey

Besides a short like Incident At Owl Creek. There used to be advert type shorts. A regular one was Meet Jeanne Heal. This was beside the Pearl and Dean type of ads. Jeanne would sit at a table perhaps talking about various products with someone. They must have lasted about 10 minutes.

I only go to the cinema for a special film nowadays. The last one was Casino Royale. But I do love watching films on the big screen. There is no better way to watch a film. The main problem is modern films often stretch credibility as the storyline often just seems to make it up rather than have a natural progression. The best example I can think of is in Indy and the Lost Ark. At one stage he is chasing the Germans and climbs on a horse to chase them in the desert someone asks him what he is doing and he says something like I don't know I am making it up. That is the way I feel about many movies today.

essaljay

In my younger days I would go to the pictures with my dad, We'd never check the times of the films but just walk in and sit down. We would see the end of the film at the time, the whole of the other film and then see the first one again unless dad said "right, this is where we came in" and we'd leave.
Does anyone else remember the "All-nighters"? Seven films back to back until the following morning. They usually followed a theme such as "Horror" or "James Bond" and the ice-cream woman would come round with sandwiches and coffee on her tray. I used to see these at the Rex cinema in Islington later renamed The screen-on-the-Green.

mrs_emma_peel

Two very imaginative cinema double bills I remember seeing were:

Support Your Local Sheriff and Goldfinger
Monte Carlo or Bust and The Italian Job

And two classic Bond double bills of:
Dr No and From Russia With Love
Thunderball and You Only Live Twice

Mrs Emma Peel

Chris B

Exactly, and don't forget the volume at which the sound is played at, enough to blow you out of your seat, all of this is why I built my own miniature cinema in the garden with 12 genuine cinema seats, and elctric curtains coloured lights etc, originally it was just for immediate friends and family, but as interest increased I have been screening films twice a month for 8 months of the year (Autumn thro Spring) started with 16mm film and went over to dvd and have never looked back. They do say that the cinema release is just an advert for the forthcoming dvd release and that the dvd is where they make the money.

essaljay

Is that legal? or do you pay a licence fee?

picture show

Hi,Avalard,
I can go back to the 1940's,the height of the 2 movie system + extra's.(remembering the Ads for the local shops,usually hand painted)..

Above all..the SMOKE filled auditorium,& overflowing ashtrays.

It wasn't a cinema unless you had a haze-the best place to see this was the light from the projector-looking back,Im surprised the picture ever reached the screen through the fog.

And the board for "Seats in all parts" or Q this side...plus inside the foyer,film stills from next weeks coming features.Plus posters,Ah!those posters,not like todays,on gloss paper,these were on porous paper they felt like sandpaper and had a distinctive smell about them.

Collectors items today.

We shall never see the likes of a 'real' cinema ever again-it was a night out,even if we were heading for lung cancer while sitting in our seats.

I good cough in those days all added to the experience.

A few seats left in the 1/9p.'s.