"Cinemas of North Tyneside" by Frank Manders

[Maurice]

reviewed by Ray Marshall in Saturday's Evening Chronicle:



Frank Manders provides "a big insight into why cinema grew with such speed to dominate entertainment in the early 20th Century."



The cinema brought audiences "marvels they had never seen before...... The cinemas themselves were much more comfortable and warmer than most homes in the hard economic times."



link - http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north...2703-24068670/

[davidb]

across the road from the odeon in newcastle , up a narrow street was a small cinema ,tiny little entrance to it .

in the era i remember it they were probably playing " adventures of a door to door cucumber salesman " or something like that , what was the name of that place and is it still there ?

[asiamiles]

name='davidb']across the road from the odeon in newcastle , up a narrow street was a small cinema ,tiny little entrance to it .

in the era i remember it they were probably playing " adventures of a door to door cucumber salesman " or something like that , what was the name of that place and is it still there ?

It's more than 20 years ago that I lived in Newcastle (while studying at the Poly). I seem to recall the Tyneside being just opposite the Odeon, right?

[Maurice]

name='asiamiles']It's more than 20 years ago that I lived in Newcastle (while studying at the Poly). I seem to recall the Tyneside being just opposite the Odeon, right?

Yes. Following extensive, sympathetic refurbishment, the Tyneside Film Theatre reopened as the Tyneside Cinema.

[asiamiles]

The manager of the Tyneside at the time was one of my lecturers at Newcastle Poly - where I was studying film - and I worked there breifly during one of the holidays and even programmed a film season. It was/is a very nice cinema, though the progamming for the most part was stereotypical arthouse/student fare with the likes of BETTY BLUE (which I hated) playing much of the time.