Odeon Nottingham

The last Show

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[MANTLEBERG]

A few months ago i drove my range rover through the remains of the entrance/foyer to do a deal with the scrap man as there was nowere to park,inside it is like a aircraft hangar, no walls ...nothing, i think the current owners still have to pay rates on it...thats progress....i hate that word lol.

[MANTLEBERG]

yeah i know what you mean about the rectifier, the mag heads were left on and were fully operational as far as i know?,

John (SPUD) Taylor tried to keep things as they were as much as possible, he was a great fan of 70mm and taught me alot about it, an old carbon burning dog just like me, he got my 70mm outfit running for me when i had my own home cinema, ive still got a 70mm mag preamp in my loft...memories...AHHHHG.

[MANTLEBERG]

Hi Tom, what eara do you mean? 1930-2008?

[MANTLEBERG]

The processor is a CP65 with the sub bass extender card, and custom automation, it also has the mag cards, i used to have one the same, i used the mag inputs for dvd presentation, i ran my shows with a westrex 5000, when set-up properly it was excelent. the sub bass was out of this world.

[MANTLEBERG]

Hi steve, Rod arranged to have the cinamation unit removed to hull, in storage i think, this unit was in fact worn-out, alot of the cams were rounded off, thats why you see Spud Taylor nursing it for a show start, the cover was removed in the shot, and the cheif engineer, and a few others were trying to work out how to disconnect it, the noise you hear was the new rectifier that was installed, i would not have been happy with all that racket, but it seems no one cared.

[GambiniUK]

Fantastic footage. I was luckily trained by Rod + Steve during the last year the Odeon was open. I stayed until it closed, and helped remove some of the projection equipment. I transfered up to Odeon Harrogate, and now work as a projectionist at The Kinema In The Woods in Lincolnshire. It was a truly great place to work :-)

[RediffusionMusic]

@computertom90 My local odeon is around 5-10 kwatts

and yes it is JBL.

[dviovinovfion]

such a bloody shame that the cinema is lying abandoned on maid marian way

oh well, thats what happens

[teaface1976]

well said

[richardsnow]

Why did the Odeon close? I kept going there when the Warner place opened, because it was better AND cheaper. It seemed to be still doing well.

[teaface1976]

What is that trailer playing at 0:40, I recognise that?

Its a real shame to see this cinema go- shame on the Odeon for abandoning their art deco roots.

[westrex5000]

New Irem's dont sound like, I expect it got knocked carring up the stairs and the Transformer Coils were loose - A screw driver and tuning works wonders.

Interesting the Mag Heads were still on the V8 in screen One, most Odeon's had those removed some years ago.