Paradise Lost: The History of the Regal Cinema, Swaffham, Norfolk: 1919-60: The history of a rural picture house long since vanished. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798640712827)

A tribute from a young teenage patron of this wonderful local Picture House from the Golden Age of Cinema-going.A serious and earnest endeavour to piece together the history of this small town cinema, that served a market town and rural community in the county of Norfolk for over 40 years, from the information currently available.This History of the Regal Cinema, situated in the small town of Swaffham provides an exceptional opportunity to describe how the operation of the film distribution and exhibition sectors of the British industry worked, particularly in the 1950s, and how this small rural cinema fitted into the overall national system.This book also includes an explanation of how the "Barring System" operated then, and why it was so central to the operation of this huge British industry; mystifyingly, this structure has since become misunderstood (at times badly) among some academics.There is also a short appraisal of Douglas Bostock and his circuit of cinemas; he took over the Regal in 1935 and ran it for twenty-five years as part of his circuit.Uniquely, most of this information has never been published in book.

Author: John V. Watson
ISBN-13: 9798640712827
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 04/27/2020
Pages: 622
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.98lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.38d