Watch Sunderland's Lost Cinemas of the 60s on Shots!TV

Walking tours guide Ian Mole shares his memories of 'the pictures' - and the culture around them - back in the 1960s. See it aat www.shosstv.com

Transcript

00:00 Today I'm going to talk about one of my tours, which is Lost Cinemas of Sunderland Town Centre.

00:04 Nobody used the word movie in the early 60s, late 60s yes.

00:08 Now just talking about language, we never used to say I'm going to the cinema.

00:11 Everybody would say I'm going to the pictures.

00:13 So we'd always arrive, I don't know, halfway through the B movie

00:17 and I thought that's just what everybody did.

00:19 Because in those days you'd have a charrettes, ladies with nice uniforms and torches

00:23 to kind of guide you in and you have to sort of squeeze in past everybody.

00:26 And you'd just stay until the whole programme finished and then start that again.

00:30 And you'd say, oh this is where we came in.

00:31 And suddenly along the bottom of the screen came the words Sunderland 2 and Newcastle 0.

00:36 I'm going to sing here so I apologise.

00:38 We're all pals together, we're miners of the ABC.

00:43 And we had to sing the last bit really loud.

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