Summary
EVERY community had a thriving cinema during the 1920s and 30s until the onset of television and Thornaby was no exception. The Queens Cinema, on a once-thriving Mandale Road, should stir feelings of affection with many people who were around during the 1950s and even before, when the cinema slowly declined as more people bought TVs and it turned over to bingo like so many other venues.
One of three cinemas in the town, the Queens was owned and run by Mr Nightingale, an enterprising manager who commissioned films made about Thornaby for screening at his cinema - and Derek Smith is trying to track them down.See the full content of this document
Extract
What Happened to the Old Films of Thornaby?
Derek, now a busy documentary film maker in London, who has an award winning series running on Sky Arts this year, first encountered the medium that would dominate his working life at the Queens in 1958 as a three-year-old vis...
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