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News theatres opened at a time when no one had even a black
and white television and mobile phones were unheard of! So they were really popular, especially with the
screening of special events, like the Coronation in 1953.
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Interview
This oral history interview for
The Birmingham Museums Trust by Felicity McWilliams, Curator of Science and Industry, was recorded with
John Neville Cohen for the Wonderland Project, all about his experiences with Jacey Cinemas. There is a PDF document that can be downloaded of
The Transcript.pdf |
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Yoko Ono - An Extraordinary Protest Film |
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We showed a film by Yoko Ono that consisted
of 365 nude bottoms! Titled 'Film No. 4' consisting of 365 bare
bottoms, the owner's that commented whilst being filmed were recorded,
as were those that refused. These commentaries were then
re-edited, so that there could be no identification between the image
and the voice. Yoko explained that "these bottoms belong to
people who represent the London scene today. It's a kind of
protest signed by buttocks."
A revue of 'The Naked Hours' at The Jacey, Marble
Arch, London that also refers to the quality film policy at this cinema
before it later became the Jacey Galleries.
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Missing From Our Scrapbook |
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| Hungarian film star Eva Bartok visited the Cinephone Theatre in Oxford Street while promoting her movie "Her Crime Was Love" 10th January 1958. Just found and added this picture: -  Gino Cervi, veteran of sixty Italian films and Italy's most famous screen actor, in London, at the Savoy Hotel, for the premiere of his latest film Maddalena at the Cinephone in Oxford Street. He starred as the Communist mayor in the Don Camillo films. See this link: Gino Cervi Marlene Dietrich came to a film premiere at the Cinephone Oxford Street. Aisha, as Miss Jacey, was to present her with a bouquet of flowers when she arrived. But she remembers that Marlene told her to take them back and to present them to her when she was on stage, which Aisha did. No press cuttings, or photos have been found! One of Ken Rive's best films (that he produced) included Aisha and our cinema in Picadilly, for more information have a look at the following link: - The Boys (1962, Sidney J. Furie, UK: Galaworldfilm Productions) By Adrian Smith |
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Apart from Kenneth Rive's Gala Films that together with my father George pioneered the continental cinemas in the UK. We also later booked continental films with the following distributors: - Antony Balch. We agreed for Antony to run our Piccadilly and Baker Street cinemas. He was both fascinating and amusing, keen to experiment, he succeeded in distributing cheap foreign films, without any stars, that were made popular by his clever titles and catch lines. Antony Balch Phil Kutner. He created and owned Miracle Films that distributed the film that made Brigitte Bardot the ultimate sex symbol 'And God Created Woman' (directed by Roger Vadim 1956). E. J. Fancey. A colourful character who handled a huge amount of films and owned several distribution companies apart from New Realm. He was a keen betting man and owned race horses. E. J. Fancey Adrienne Fancey - She became the UK's first woman managing director of her own film distribution company (daughter of E. J. Fancey) and she had a huge success with the film 'Emmanuelle' in our cinemas, which broke all the distribution records in the UK at that time! Adrienne Fancey Michael Chivers. Connoisseur Films & Amanda Films Tony Tenser. Very good at marketing and publicity stunts, he claimed the credit for naming Brigitte Bardot "the sex kitten", whilst head of publicity for Miracle Films. He later got together with Michael Klinger. Tony Tenser Michael Klinger. Owned several London strip clubs, but later he together with Tony Tenser, created Compton Cameo Film Distributors and Cinecenta. Michael Klinger |
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THE
HISTORY OF JACEY CINEMAS LTD 1950 PATHE NEWS VIDEOS |
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