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iankingdon1980 commented about Ace Theater on Nov 28, 2024 at 11:24 pm

My dear friend John who owns this cinema / theatre passed away recently, I’m from the UK and he was a good friend and he was the best in the business he helped me restore my simplex machines , truly missed

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iankingdon1980 commented about Showcase Cinemas Birmingham on Dec 9, 2017 at 5:53 am

I worked for showcase cinemas as chief projectionist up until 2 years ago when digital ruined our careers they closed that cinema as jaguar made them a offer they could not refuse

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iankingdon1980 commented about Empire Cinemas on Nov 17, 2017 at 3:49 am

I was a senior projectionist there in 1999-2002 when it was UGC with Ian Bolton and ron shepard who where original from the abc central in reading .screen 4 still has the changing rooms for the theatre under the stage also the projector could be seen through the glass fronted projection room

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iankingdon1980 commented about Victoria Station Cartoon Cinema on Feb 7, 2017 at 6:59 pm

Lunaluna please get in contact .. I’m Jim carters nephew and I knew David odd very well .. he was a great guy and a brilliant projectionist he got me into working at riverside studios Hammersmith years ago .. he lived near Oxford with a little model railway around his tree outside ..I’ve been wondering what happened to David and I knew he came from Putney as his mum lived there .. thanks

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iankingdon1980 commented about Prince Charles Cinema on Jan 5, 2013 at 9:25 pm

I was the senior projectionist in 2000-2002 and amanda ireland was the chief projections and we where running phillips dp-75 with 70mm add ons.good times