Two new cinemas for Brighton and Hove

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Back on!
Really enjoying the photographs. I first lived in Brighton as a student studying at Brighton Polytechnic. The first film I saw at the Cannon East Street was Videodrome and the first at The Duke Of Yorks was a double bill of True Stories ( a Talking Heads film) and Pretty In Pink.

 

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Then there was The Embassy along Western Road, where The Jam played on 15th. April, '77

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Also there was one in north street as well where burger king is now. The cinema bit "at the back" is a homage to it...

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Also there was one in north street as well where burger king is now. The cinema bit "at the back" is a homage to it...

I always wondered why Burger King had that - obviously I'm too young to know !

 

[u'vebeenamexed]

Anyone remember the name of the small cinema that was at the top of North Street above a pizza restaurant. Roughly opposite where the large Boots is now ? Only went there once to see The Clash movie - and what about the sleazy one in Suddeley Place near the hospital ?

 

[u'vebeenamexed]

Also there was one in north street as well where burger king is now. The cinema bit "at the back" is a homage to it...

Too busy posting to look - sorry Tony - but what was it called ?

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

My step-mum was the assistant manageress at The Savoy in East Street in the 1980's

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Too busy posting to look - sorry Tony - but what was it called ?

Brighton Film Theatre ?

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Too busy posting to look - sorry Tony - but what was it called ?

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[Lord Bracknell]

For the nostalgia buffs ...

Brighton cinema directory

Directory of cinemas in Brighton & Hove

These are all the cinemas (and their name changes) that have ever operated in Brighton and Hove, Southwick and Shoreham. Details are given under the earliest name of the theatre at each site, with cross-references from subsequent names. Most cinema sites have their own pages; click on the picture or name to open in its own window.

An artist's impression of the Gaiety at the time of its opening in 1937

1937 Gaiety Cinema
1965 Ace Cinema
1971 Vogue Cinema
1979 Classic Cinema
1980 Closed

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Too busy posting to look - sorry Tony - but what was it called ?

Cinescene

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Cinescene

1913 Bijou Select Palace
1915 Prince's Electric Theatre
1919 Prince's Cinema
1947 Prince's News Theatre
1967 Jacey Cinema
1969 Brighton Film Theatre
1978 Closed
1979 Cinescene
1983 Closed

 

[skipper734]

My step-mum was the assistant manageress at The Savoy in East Street in the 1980's

Ooo! The Manager was in my class at the Knoll. He may have gone to the Marina by the time your step mum was there. Graham Scatterdy, if memory serves.

 

[skipper734]

Cinescene

You can guess a person's age by what they know it as. Prince's News Theater.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

You can guess a person's age by what they know it as. Prince's News Theater.

And this place can give a clue to someone's age and character ...

What do YOU remember seeing at the Continentale?

1920 Opened as the King's Cliff Cinema (also known as the Sudeley Place Picture House) in a converted Congregational chapel, 370 seats, converted by local architects Denman & Matthew (Brighton).
1930 Owned by a Mrs Fellows (see also Tivoli, Western Road Hove). GB-Kalee sound system installed
1939 September 2 Re-opened after refurbishment. It closed the next day under the wartime restrictions on cinema opening.
1943 May Re-opened after temporary closure since 1941.
1947 October 31 Changed from cinema use to become Playhouse Repertory Theatre
1948 Apparently run as the Metro Cinema by Jack Leslie & Co. Although listed in the Kinematograph Yearbook for 1948—prices 10d-1s6d, continuous from 3.15pm, booked at hall; proscenium 14ft, British Acoustic Films (BAF) sound system—it is not mentioned by that name in any local sources consulted so far. The last repertory theatre performance was on 26 March 1949.
1949 March 28 Re-opens as The Picture Playhouse cinema. Shortly after (?) acquired by Miles Byrne and leased to George Fernie. [Some sources say it was owned by Fernie.] Renamed Playhouse Cinema. At that time Miles Byrne was entering the cinema business in Hereford, which became his main base.
1950 December Closes.
1951 April 30 Renamed Continentale Cinema and showing European films.
1953 January Infra-red heating system installed. Listed in the current Kinematograph Yearbook as run by Fernie & Sydenham, still booked at the hall. Prices 1s 6d-3s 1d.
1957 Listed as run by G H Fernie. Prices 1d 6d-3s 2d. 300 seats
1961 Converted for Cinemascope. Prices 1s 6d-3s
1965 Owned and managed by Miles Byrne Organisation (2 St John's Road, Burgess Hill). Complete refurbishment at a cost of £5,000. Programming changes to art-house films in the evenings, pornographic films in the afternoons. [The art-house films are later dropped in favour of an all-sex régime.]
1967 Brighton Council refuses to accept the BBFC certificate (X, subsequently reduced to 15) for Joseph Strick's film of James Joyce's Ulysses and briefly bans the film. [Byrne's Orion Cinema in Burgess Hill is meanwhile allowed to show the film.]
1968 Brighton Council briefly refuses to accept the BBFC certificate for the Swedish film I, A Woman.
1968 Booked at hall; 267 seats. Prices 4s, 5s. Screen 20ft x 9ft, Cinemascope
1970 Three shows daily, one change weekly; 250 seats
1986 December Closed, following the death of Miles Byrne. Last film double bill: Off Duty Pleasures and Sexy Couriers.
Converted into four dwelling units in the late 1980s within the shell of the building.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Do all threads end at the Smutiest level....

 

[skipper734]

The one Brighton & Hove Cinema I have spent no time in. I believe The Continental gave rise to the expression, fleapit.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

That must be the one i think near the site of the sainsburys in lewes road.

 

[skipper734]

That must be the one i think near the site of the sainsburys in lewes road.

What....... The Gaiety.

 

[u'vebeenamexed]

And this place can give a clue to someone's age and character ...



What do YOU remember seeing at the Continentale?

Rosie Dixon Night Nurse (late seventies)