Films in Big School
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More recently, films were usually brought in by pupils etc and watched in the various dayrooms (VHS, DVD's, etc). There were also occasional school film nights organised in the theatre (usually on the rather large projector screen, with either the now very old theatre projector or one borrowed from, say, the science department), but those were quite rare. When we did do them we tried to get them to work in surround sound - it worked, it was just that the rear speakers were rather crap
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I think I saw a film called Genevive - but it was definately nothing to do with a car. I thought it was about a couple of lesbians and a bloke playing the piano (complicated plot). RR mentioned Emmanuelle - I presume you are referring to the Dominion at Tottenham Court Road?? And wasnt it on before that???
Also - back in the old days the cinema in Horsham had a useful side door entrance where for some reason we were never asked to pay for a ticket. Very obliging they were. That's where I saw my first 18 rated film - The Wild Bunch - I think that today it wouldn't even rate a PG!!
Also - back in the old days the cinema in Horsham had a useful side door entrance where for some reason we were never asked to pay for a ticket. Very obliging they were. That's where I saw my first 18 rated film - The Wild Bunch - I think that today it wouldn't even rate a PG!!
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Your memory for detail is better than mine!Rory wrote:I think I saw a film called Genevive - but it was definately nothing to do with a car. I thought it was about a couple of lesbians and a bloke playing the piano (complicated plot). RR mentioned Emmanuelle - I presume you are referring to the Dominion at Tottenham Court Road?? And wasnt it on before that???
Also - back in the old days the cinema in Horsham had a useful side door entrance where for some reason we were never asked to pay for a ticket. Very obliging they were. That's where I saw my first 18 rated film - The Wild Bunch - I think that today it wouldn't even rate a PG!!
The Dominion sounds likely, although I don't recall the 'short' before Emanuelle. I'm sure it wasn't an instructional film about the windmills of East Anglia, though........
I think, unfortunately, that this is the 'Genevieve' in question -
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These days they're relatively common. IIRC, TSG and her group of Saturday Night People organise them, with the projection and sound done by techies - an easy job for them! Quality's quite good, and the film selection is done by a vote through houses. Having been a techie for a while (i.e. from October 2005-GCSE time roughly speaking) - though nobody taught me much! - I know that the techies, once the film is running nicely, go and watch the film from behind the screen!
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We had films in the theatre. Sunday nights and an excuse to get out of house and prep. Brilliant. The one I remember most vividly was Top Gun, and this would have been when I was young enough to think that Tom Cruise was attractive. Add Val Kilmer and Kelly McGillis, the place must have been throbbing with hormones.
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We had occasional films in the School Hall on Saturday afternoons. The only one I remember is "Whistle Down The Wind" with Hayley Mills. The were chosen by the senior girls from a catalogue.
We were also allowed to go to the nearby cinema sometimes. We saw one of the St. Trinians films there.
We were also allowed to go to the nearby cinema sometimes. We saw one of the St. Trinians films there.
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A classic British film.
The first one I ever saw was "A tale of Two Cities" with Dirk Bogarde, black and white and scratchy but when he was executed the whole school burst into tears.
I remember "whistle down the Wind ", I think that too produced a lot of adolescent sobbing.
A classic British film.
The first one I ever saw was "A tale of Two Cities" with Dirk Bogarde, black and white and scratchy but when he was executed the whole school burst into tears.
I remember "whistle down the Wind ", I think that too produced a lot of adolescent sobbing.
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SENIOR GIRLSbeing allowed to choose the films! Whatever next!MKM wrote:We had occasional films in the School Hall on Saturday afternoons. The only one I remember is "Whistle Down The Wind" with Hayley Mills. The were chosen by the senior girls from a catalogue.
We were also allowed to go to the nearby cinema sometimes. We saw one of the St. Trinians films there.
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viewtopic.php?t=975&start=0Mid A 15 wrote:Am I being thickAngela Woodford wrote:I'm so pleased that, thanks to Spoony, I've had my date of death predicted!Mid A 15 wrote:Another thread I've resurrected because Spoonbill evokes the atmosphere brilliantly!
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Before I die, and i do seem to have a while according to that website, I'll bring this thread back to films....
Sobbing helplessly over Tale of Two cities and Whistle Down the Wind in the hall are very clear memories.
We went "out" to see The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery, Khartoum (more sobbing) and, inexplicably, Lindsay Anderson's "If". I'm absolutely sure that none of the staff had a clue what that last one was going to be about! It was followed by some dark muttering in 5s about a school revolution, which, sadly, came to nought.
Sobbing helplessly over Tale of Two cities and Whistle Down the Wind in the hall are very clear memories.
We went "out" to see The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery, Khartoum (more sobbing) and, inexplicably, Lindsay Anderson's "If". I'm absolutely sure that none of the staff had a clue what that last one was going to be about! It was followed by some dark muttering in 5s about a school revolution, which, sadly, came to nought.