Hi NThomson, sorry don’t know your first name, thanks for getting in touch. Yes Derek was a great guy, he loved his photography. I remember he had a dark room in his office on the right as you entered the projection room. I am Amazed we both worked with the same people. When I started working at the Queens I had just missed the three projector system. Wow 55 years ago. Do you remember the live showing of the boxing matches in The Odeon, and the special projector that was used. I think it was called Eidathor. It was hired in and was hauled all the way up into the projection room. Unfortunately I don’t have any photos of my time at The Queens. The only thing I have is my evidence of my attending The Rank training academy in London and the short sample of one third Cinerama footage of How The West Was Won.
During my time at The Queens I used to do relief work at the Odeon and I was always amazed by the mercury vapour rectifiers. Also at The Odeon we used to have live shows and I used to operate one of the Follow Spot Lights. The Odeon also occasionally had live showing of boxing matches and I remember the special projector that was installed especially for those days. I think the name of it was Idethor, maybe some one could comment on that.
Looking at the arc lamp it reminds me of one of my jobs as a junior and that was to strip the copper sheathing from the carbon rods and then at Christmas time I would take the peelings down to the scrap yard on City Road. We all had a share in the proceeds.
I agree, I have threaded many films through those very projectors using the big Cinerama lens. How we lifted those loaded 70mm reels into the top spool box I don’t know !
I worked at The Queens Cinerama as a projectionist using the DP 70 projectors. I showed The Sound of music twice a day for two years. Con Dougherty was the manager, Derek was the chief also worked with Brian, Cecil and John. Im pleased to see Mr BTH has the DP 70s. I still have a small roll of 35mm which is one third of How The West was Won.
Hi NThomson, sorry don’t know your first name, thanks for getting in touch. Yes Derek was a great guy, he loved his photography. I remember he had a dark room in his office on the right as you entered the projection room. I am Amazed we both worked with the same people. When I started working at the Queens I had just missed the three projector system. Wow 55 years ago. Do you remember the live showing of the boxing matches in The Odeon, and the special projector that was used. I think it was called Eidathor. It was hired in and was hauled all the way up into the projection room. Unfortunately I don’t have any photos of my time at The Queens. The only thing I have is my evidence of my attending The Rank training academy in London and the short sample of one third Cinerama footage of How The West Was Won.
During my time at The Queens I used to do relief work at the Odeon and I was always amazed by the mercury vapour rectifiers. Also at The Odeon we used to have live shows and I used to operate one of the Follow Spot Lights. The Odeon also occasionally had live showing of boxing matches and I remember the special projector that was installed especially for those days. I think the name of it was Idethor, maybe some one could comment on that.
Looking at the arc lamp it reminds me of one of my jobs as a junior and that was to strip the copper sheathing from the carbon rods and then at Christmas time I would take the peelings down to the scrap yard on City Road. We all had a share in the proceeds.
I agree, I have threaded many films through those very projectors using the big Cinerama lens. How we lifted those loaded 70mm reels into the top spool box I don’t know !
I worked at The Queens Cinerama as a projectionist using the DP 70 projectors. I showed The Sound of music twice a day for two years. Con Dougherty was the manager, Derek was the chief also worked with Brian, Cecil and John. Im pleased to see Mr BTH has the DP 70s. I still have a small roll of 35mm which is one third of How The West was Won.