One of those things that we forgot to blog about in the run-up to the festival – a cross-section illustration of the Odeon Leicester Square, from Modern Wonder vol.3 no.58 (25 June 1938):
This was published the year after Odeon’s flagship cinema opened. Although some of the architects involved felt that the building itself was a bit of a let-down, this drawing gives you a fair idea of the interior’s wow factor. The illustrator was Leslie Ashwell Wood, later responsible for many of the cutaways of cruise-ships and space rockets in Eagle comics. Author Steve Holland has done an impressive amount of research into Ashwell Wood, and gathered some of it at his Bear Alley blog.
Thanks to the very helpful people at The Ticketsellers, booking for Flatpack is a breeze. As you probably know many of our venues are pretty intimate, so if you want to be sure of seeing something – or take advantage of the 4 screenings for £20 deal – then sort your tickets in advance. Things which are selling particularly well include…
– If you’re planning to see the latter, you might like to know that there will be a pre-screening black metal warm-up session at Scruffy Murphy’s in Dale End beforehand. (Details for facebookites here.)
– The Odeon bus tour got a mention on radio 4 this afternoon when the Film Programme took a tour of the Electric; should be on iPlayer soon.
– As noted by Created in Birmingham, colourful stripes are appearing all over various festival shops and venues. David Hurley is also in the CiB shop over the weekend installing his strange family of mannequins.
– Finally, we end this disjointed and maybe slightly frazzled blog post with a doffed cap to our hero of the week – Adam at Aquila TV, who has been holed up in their edit suite all week compiling the shorts programmes.
Have a lovely weekend, and we’ll see you next week….
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