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talking pictures Saturday morning matinees

Posted by Brian on February 12, 2021, 19:55:41

Don't forget tomorrow from 9.00am. Cartoons, serials including Zorro, Lone Rangers and Flash Gordon and a film too. Get you bag of sweets or popcorn ready and settle down on the sofa and spend a little time watching the stuff we saw at the pictures every Saturday.

Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees

Posted by rusty alan on February 12, 2021, 20:00:23, in reply to "talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

thank,s brian, cannot wait to see MING again.

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Posted by Carol in hampshire on February 12, 2021, 20:04:20, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

You two must have very understanding wives
Carol

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Posted by David Henley on February 12, 2021, 20:14:47, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

Where gig at .

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Posted by rusty alan on February 12, 2021, 20:17:11, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

wor lass and i have"give and take carol" she gives me the money to gan into the fish shop then takes the fish and chips off me before i get into the truck, i might surprise her tomorrow as its nearly valentine,s day,i might pay, must be doing something right,57 years wed this year.

Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees

Posted by alan la ruste on February 12, 2021, 21:35:56, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

FANCY GANNIN TO THE GRAND TOMORROW WOR CAROL?ALAN..

Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees

Posted by Carol in hampshire on February 12, 2021, 22:09:21, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

I would love to Alan, upstairs or down.

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Posted by rusty alan on February 12, 2021, 22:28:23, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

upstairs at the back carol,then up to lumsdens for fish and chips, eh,

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Posted by Brian on February 12, 2021, 22:19:15, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

I usually wake her with a cuppa every morning always have done. Will take on up on a break.

Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees

Posted by Mac Cummings on February 12, 2021, 20:25:52, in reply to "talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

Which channel Brian?

Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees

Posted by George on February 12, 2021, 20:49:33, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

Pea shooter at the ready Brian. Just wait until that organist appears from under the stage for the starter sing song. Hope he's got his ARP hat on. Yippee for Saturday and Brian's Big Bad Club. it feels just like 1947 again with all the snow to help create the occasion.

Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees

Posted by Eddy Nesbitt. on February 12, 2021, 21:00:43, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

Talking Pictures Mac.

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Posted by Sheila on February 12, 2021, 21:05:41, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

Free view 81, Freesat 306, Sky 328, Virgin 445

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Posted by Mac Cummings on February 12, 2021, 21:14:16, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

Thanks Sheila. My SKY Q is all set to record and may well over-heat.
In my head I will be in "The Picture House"......!

Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees

Posted by Brian on February 12, 2021, 22:16:35, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

talking pictures tv,Mac

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Posted by Brian on February 12, 2021, 22:17:50, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

I might even draw the curtains to make it feel more cinema like

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Posted by Carol in hampshire on February 12, 2021, 22:23:18, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

Brian the neighbours will think someone has died if the curtains are closed

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Posted by Brian on February 13, 2021, 11:46:33, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

Carol, we can boo and cheer and the neighbours will wonder what's going on.

Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees

Posted by Billy D on February 13, 2021, 1:02:04, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

I have an app on my Amazon Prime stick and I can get all these old films and TV series on, loads of old westerns, Davy Crockett, bonanza etc

Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees

Posted by Brian on February 13, 2021, 10:43:06, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

Yes there's loads out there if you know where to look Billy, but Talking Pictures have put the whole lot together as a morning matinee every Saturday morning we are all having a nostalgia trip back to the pictures of our childhood.

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Posted by rusty alan on February 13, 2021, 13:32:17, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

yes/ and ming has just announced he is offering 100.000, mingo,s for the capture of flash gordon, he,s got nee chance.

Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees

Posted by Brian on February 13, 2021, 14:40:48, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

How many mingos to the pound Alan?

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Posted by rusty alan on February 13, 2021, 16:46:10, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

i think 5.000 to the pound brian,so twenty poond reward.he is not worth capturing.

Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees

Posted by Brian on February 13, 2021, 17:27:53, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

Aye Alan and he's not going to come quietly is he?

Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees

Posted by George on February 14, 2021, 0:45:26, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

Brian, the sight of the electronic organ making its way to the surface of the stage brought back memories of the pea-shooter brigade. The organist at Gateshead Odeon wore a tin hat issued to Air Raid Precaution personnel but he found it safer to duck down below again as quickly as possible. He was the great Con Docherty. Roll on next week. Dorothy thinks we are all nuts.

Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees

Posted by rusty on February 14, 2021, 8:56:11, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

certainly not dorothy, its just, memories, and everyone has them.

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Posted by George on February 14, 2021, 10:38:02, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

Dorothy says she was a goody, goody and didn't have a pea-shooter.
Rusty, whilst the Gateshead Odeon was good, the Old blacks (Palace) was better for us kids as the management offered absolutely no control at all. We would all sit astride the bench seating and howk along the passageways as if we were riding our horses during the serial of Devil's Horse. Meeting an oncoming bench caused wonderful mayhem. Then after the show, we kids smacked our behinds all the way home.

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Posted by Brian on February 14, 2021, 11:51:24, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

I am quite happy to be nuts, it great escapism in a time of stress such as this,After the Lone Ranger I am going to be smacking my backside all the way to the kitchen to make a cuppa. I also like the requests posted up by the management,see you all there next Saturday morning.

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Posted by George on February 14, 2021, 13:22:43, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

Did you see the notice offering free entrance on your birthday? I remember that was also the case at the Odeon but not at The Old Black's. Brian can you show a snip of the Devil Horse serial - complete with music. I did have it some time ago but can't find it now.

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Posted by Brian on February 14, 2021, 13:40:19, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

George if I can find it I will show it. A lot of the local small chains were very ad hoc,but some got their act together and did membership cards and everything. Can you remember Brooke Bonds tea doing shows at the local cinemas for the kids.

Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees

Posted by rusty on February 14, 2021, 16:37:12, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

i remember seeing deadwood dick, and the skull at the grand pelaw, i think i was twelve.

Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees

Posted by George on February 14, 2021, 17:47:54, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

Hey Rusty, those two lived next door to me when I lived in Duke Street. I bet you know who I mean.

Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees

Posted by rusty on February 14, 2021, 18:25:23, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

yes george, billy, raymond, alan, and two younger lads twins,remember lumsdens fish shop, top of princess street george, if you took a pile of newspapers in, you got a bag of chips for nowt.

Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees

Posted by George on February 14, 2021, 19:08:41, in reply to "Re: talking pictures Saturday morning matinees"

Talking of newspapers to wrap up the fish'n chip., Remember pyrex dishes? We could read the tablecloth at my mates house if we moved the chips around.

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