those involved in the entertainment world), we had some incredibly special evenings there after our film premieres. Thinking back, I met quite a number of celebrities and interesting people, we entertained some of the UK male pop stars; Adam Faith, Jess Conrad, Craig Douglas, when we opened the 'Jacey in the Strand' and several French female film starlets that included Catherine Deneuve (before she became so famous).

Aisha 'Miss Jacey' with Craig Douglas and Adam Faith
 

Martine Carole came to the opening of our 'Cinephone' Birmingham and Robert Mitchum attended the film premiere of 'Yellow Teddybears' also at 'Cinephone' Birmingham.

I met Yoko Ono in London (we had shown her film 'Film No 4' about lots of bottoms) and later I was invited to one of her London exhibitions that was really extraordinary. I should mention that Aisha Ahmed 'Miss Jacey' represented us at all these events, she had a nice personality, and she was just as attractive as any of the celebs!

The Film distributors we knew well were also very strong personalities, there was Kenneth Rive, Anthony Balch, Phil Kutner, Tony Tenser and Adrienne Fancey. Ken Rive had worked for British intelligence before film distribution and Phil Kutner had made Brigit Bardot famous by distributing her film 'And God Created Woman' directed by Roger Vadim. Tony Tenser promoted Brigitte Bardot and invented the catch phrase 'The Sex Kitten'.


Social Life

Now that I had normal office hours, I had more free time to concentrate on photography, this soon became my main hobby. I think it was partly due to working as a projectionist that I got the idea to consider the possibilities of photographing projected images. More about my photography later.

Also, at this time my social life improved dramatically. One of the advantages, having started with the continental cinemas and because we had five in the West End of London and all the main distributors were based there, the company decided to rent a London flat in Park Street, Mayfair a particularly good location for any of the directors to use.

So, I was able to arrange to do my work in London on Fridays and then have the benefit of staying there for the weekend, where I had got to know quite a large circle of friends. My sex life was great, but is best kept private, I will simply add that I only ever had one lover at a time, I was very choosy but fortunate too, as I was only ever with the most beautiful girls.