Camelot Cinema
The Crescent,
Newquay,
TR7 1DS
The Crescent,
Newquay,
TR7 1DS
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Despite the date in the camera data, my photograph was taken in July 2013.
I worked at the Camelot for the summer season when Mr Norman Whale operated the cinema, along with the Plaza in Truro. Jurassic Park came out as the blockbuster film, and it was very very very busy every day all summer. Still seated a little over 700 patrons then. Yhe only part of the original Pavilion, was the basement and the two towers either side of the main entrance.
The decor was orange and brown, very 1970s! That said, it was a great cinema, capable of showing 70mm prints, with the screen size to match! Just a real shame that WTW Cornish Cinemas didn’t come in time to save this cinema as well as the Plaza Truro.
It was certainly an unusual looking place as a cinema. Has it retained its exterior appearance?
Saw ‘The Professionals’ here in the summer of 1967 when the Cinema was still called the Pavilion.
Photo from 1977 here:–
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