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9th April
We had a bit of a varied selection of films for this evening, beginning with a clip from Tvs Bargain Hunt which featured a man who had built a £70,000 brick replica of an ABCcinema in his back garden. His cinema was furnished with fittings and equipment from former ABC cinemas that had long since closed and which he had collected over the succeeding years.
His cinema was hugely impressive and was a remarkably faithful recreation, in miniature, of the familiar ABC cinemas that were once to be found in many towns throughout the country, as you can see from the picture on the right.
A tremendous effort and clearly a labour of love for this fan of the classic single-screen cinemas of the past.
We then had another chance to look at Phil’s own personal archive as he gave us a glimpse of some of the places he had visited in the UK over the years., which featured some great scenery in Scotland - as in this image on the left from the line to Fort William - and some excellent railway footage from several heritage lines.
In the 1990s, Barry and his wife, Isobel, had visited South Africa which he had recorded on 8mm film.
Over the succeeding years, he has been digitizing much of his film collection and he gave us a chance to see this record of that holiday, including a f a s c i n a t i n g camera safari, similar to the one shown here at right, followed by a spectacular, n i g h t - t i m e entertainment provided by n a t i v e performers.
