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A taste of 1930s cinema-going, with Odeon and Electric footage and special guest Juliet Gardiner.

Featuring: Juliet Gardiner, Odeon Cavalcade and archive Electric footage

Total running time: 100 minutes approx.

Wrapping up Flatpack’s thirties strand, special guest Juliet Gardiner will be talking about the social significance of the cinema during this time and sharing some of the celluloid nuggets discovered while researching her ambitious and engaging new book The Thirties: An Intimate History. We’ll also look at two very different film-going experiences: the suburban super-cinema, in 1973 documentary Odeon Cavalcade; and the newsreel theatre, a place to kill time when waiting for a train. While preparing a film about the Electric’s history, the current owners have uncovered a wealth of material from the cinema’s newsreel days including footage of the building unseen since it was first filmed.