I was manager operator here circa 1958/59
Projectors were Westar ( Century) and sound was Westrex. I helped install cinemascope here which opened Doris Day in “Love Me or Leave Me.”
Hi Carnegie, a very apt nickname …lol. I’m sorry I live in Australia, have done for 48 years now and most photos I did have have long since been lost or destroyed. I do have one taken on the steps of the Hippodrome, it’s a photo of a young lady the ticket seller at that time circa 1954.
I was a projectionist at the “Queens” in the early 1950’s. The projectors were Kalee 21 with Kalee lamphouses and Westrex sound heads. To enter the projection room we had to climb a steel ladder on the balcony foyer and open a trap door. It was quite difficult to get the film transit cases up into the projection room as they were heavy.
The Hippodrome was a beautiful cinema, the foyer was especially grand. I was Projectionist there for quite a few years in the 1950’s. The projection room was equipped with Kalee 12 projectors and Western Electric mirrophonic sound heads and Peerless magnarc lamp houses. We installed Cinemascope in about 1956 opening with “Lucky Me” a Doris Day musical.
I was manager operator here circa 1958/59 Projectors were Westar ( Century) and sound was Westrex. I helped install cinemascope here which opened Doris Day in “Love Me or Leave Me.”
Hi Matt, I will email it to you, it’s not a good one of the Hippodrome, it was really only taken for the photo of the lass. Cheers.. Bill.
Hi Carnegie, a very apt nickname …lol. I’m sorry I live in Australia, have done for 48 years now and most photos I did have have long since been lost or destroyed. I do have one taken on the steps of the Hippodrome, it’s a photo of a young lady the ticket seller at that time circa 1954.
The Hippodrome was owned and operated by B & S Cinemas
(Bates & Speakman.
I was a projectionist at the “Queens” in the early 1950’s. The projectors were Kalee 21 with Kalee lamphouses and Westrex sound heads. To enter the projection room we had to climb a steel ladder on the balcony foyer and open a trap door. It was quite difficult to get the film transit cases up into the projection room as they were heavy.
The Hippodrome was a beautiful cinema, the foyer was especially grand. I was Projectionist there for quite a few years in the 1950’s. The projection room was equipped with Kalee 12 projectors and Western Electric mirrophonic sound heads and Peerless magnarc lamp houses. We installed Cinemascope in about 1956 opening with “Lucky Me” a Doris Day musical.
Ah! those were the days.