An incomplete history of the ODEON Clerk Street, Edinburgh: Longest running film in the Odeon

Thursday, 5 February 2009

Longest running film in the Odeon

The Sound of Music.

Length of time in the ODEON 85 weeks.

(Beaten in Edinburgh by Gregory's Girl which ran in the Dominion cinema for 106 weeks.)

South Pacific had been the longest running film in Edinburgh up until "The Sound of Music" was screened. It was also the film that started taking advance bookings, due to the numbers queing to get in every day.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Growing Up with Cinema in my Blood

My childhood was spent watching films on the big screen. Being dyslexic I spent a year or so of my life behind others in school; until luckily one of my teachers spotted the symptoms.
Then I read everything I could get my hands on. One particular magazine always stood out in my childhood years that of National Geographic. Inspired by the articles and photographs there in it was still photography that would eventually become my passion. From a childhood of watching films I was inspired more to capture the world in still form than as moving pictures. Although watching films has "inspired me to "break the rules" and experiment with how images are shot and composed.

Just the other day I watched a "The Secret of My Sucess." And the scene where Helen Slater is drinking from the water fountain, my first thoughts were, "that's my type of image." Tight cropped, let the viewer imagine the whole picture.