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Cinema
Extracts from an audio-interview with a cinema projectionist working in Leicester from 1920s until the 1950s. In this largely unedited recording he recalls his experiences as a projectionist and remembers Leicester’s early cinemas and the arrival of talking pictures. Arch Warren started work at the Floral Hall in Belgrave Gate in 1928, at that time showing only silent films with the help of a cinema pianist. He recalls that electric motors had only just been introduced on the projectors and when they broke down he had to turn the handle manually to keep the film moving. The cinemas would try to run at least three full shows every day and he would start work at ten in the morning and work until 11 at night, six days a week. He joined the Air Force during the Second World War and vowed not to return to the cinema because of the hours. However he was tempted back, firstly as a part-time projectionist at the Olympia cinema and later back at the Leicester Palace, where they had replaced films with live variety shows during the war. The original recording is held by the East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA ref. 382, LO/002/C2), more information can be found at http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/. This audio recording lasts 21 minutes and 48 seconds.
 
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Creators: Interviewee - Warren, Arch
Subject: Information & Media, Labour/Work
 Oral History
 History
Contributors: East Midlands Oral History Archive - Correspondent
Date created: 01 / 01 / 1989
Language: English
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City: 		United Kingdom
Leicestershire
Leicester
Rights: Community Media Association has non exclusive rights for the use of the work in The Showcase, but the overall copyright rests with East Midlands Oral History Archive. Copyright East Midlands Oral History Archive.
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