No 1 on the day I was born

Number 1 in the UK  and Irish charts when I was born was 'Barbados' by Typically Tropical  - enjoy!!

The Tudor Cinema

Noel Spence, and his twin brother Roy, have celluloid in their veins, having been avid filmgoers from childhood. After acquiring a cheap plastic camera in their youth, they graduated to fully-fledged filmmaking. By the 1970’s they were earning a reputation for making extremely competent productions on 8mm and 16mm; indeed, many of their nearly 100 films have won top awards. Ardent followers of 1950’s horror and sci-fi films, many of their productions have been based in that era.

In August 1974 Noel took his hobby a step further by converting an old shed alongside his house into the Tudor Cinema, named in appreciation of the cinema he used to frequent in nearby Bangor. Running his own cinema allowed him to fully indulge his passion for the technicalities of projection and showmanship. Despite the clatter of a film projector being replaced by the silence of a digital system the Tudor Cinema, with its ‘traditional’ ambiance, tip-up seating and elaborate plasterwork, still provides an increasingly elusive ‘night out at the pictures’.

The Tudor Cinema, which is available for private hire, is also home to many original items rescued from cinemas as they closed down

taken from www.cinematreasures.org

WHY JAWS???

I was born in 1975 and Jaws was also released in 1975 and so it seemed fitting to chose a movie as old as myself, and a movie I can remember watching as a child!! 

See below for the trailer and some more info about JAWS 

Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's 1974 novel of the same name. The prototypical summer blockbuster, its release is regarded as a watershed moment in motion picture history. In the story, a giant man-eating great white shark attacks beachgoers on Amity Island, a fictional New England summer resort town, prompting the local police chief to hunt it with the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter. The film stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as oceanographer Matt Hooper, Robert Shaw as shark hunter Quint, Murray Hamilton as Larry Vaughn, the mayor of Amity Island, and Lorraine Gary as Brody's wife, Ellen. The screenplay is credited to both Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script during principal photography.

Shot mostly on location on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, the film had a troubled production, going over budget and past schedule. As the art department's mechanical sharks suffered many malfunctions, Spielberg decided to mostly suggest the animal's presence, employing an ominous, minimalistic theme created by composer John Williams to indicate the shark's impending appearances. Spielberg and others have compared this suggestive approach to that of classic thriller director Alfred Hitchcock.Universal Pictures gave the film what was then an exceptionally wide release for a major studio picture, over 450 screens, accompanied by an extensive marketing campaign with a heavy emphasis on television spots and tie-in merchandise.

Generally well received by critics, Jaws became the highest-grossing film of all time until Star Wars. It won several awards for its soundtrack and editing. Along with Star Wars, Jaws was pivotal in establishing the modern Hollywood business model, which revolves around high box-office returns from action and adventure pictures with simple "high-concept" premises that are released during the summer in thousands of theaters and supported by heavy advertising. It was followed by three sequels, none with the participation of Spielberg or Benchley, and many imitative thrillers. In 2001, Jaws was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

From Wikipedia

Directions to the Tudor Cinema

I have not been to the cinema (yet) but here are some directions 

Directions to Tudor Cinema, Comber

The address for The Tudor Cinema is  …  22A Drumhirk Road, Comber, BT23 5LY

DIRECTIONS FROM BELFAST

Take the Newtownards Road and travel along this road, past the areas known as the Holywood Arches and Ballyhackamore and keep straight ahead until you pass by the main entrance to the Stormont estate, known colloquially as 'The Mile'.  This is now the Upper Newtownards Road.

Continue along the Upper Newtownards Road until you reach the large slightly curved building of Portland Stone known as Dundonald House.  At the crossroads there you should again travel straight ahead but move into the outside lane in preparation for a right turn.

You will pass Knock Golf Club on your left and a cemetery on your right.  At the next set of lights you take a right turn onto the Comber Road, Dundonald.  Continue straight ahead. 

When you reach Comber you will see a sign pointing to the left, which is the town centre.  Ignore that sign and travel straight ahead. 

After a long straight stretch the road veers to the left.  You will come to a roundabout. 

At the roundabout turn right onto the Killyleagh Road.  Almost exactly one mile from that roundabout you will reach a road on your right called the Drumhirk Road.  Turn onto this road. 

After approximately 0.4 miles you will reach a small road to your left that has a house beside it with ranch style fencing.  Turn left onto this road and travel ahead 200-300 yards.

This road ends with the Tudor cinema to your left.  There is a sizeable car park in front of the cinema.

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