NOTTINGHAM - CINEMA OF THE 70'S - HD

Short clip from the dvd/video of the same name available for £4.99 from Nottingham Audio Visual (NAV) Tel: [phone]
This film was shot on 8mm film using a Bolex camera - it won an award in 1965 when it was taken and was finally released to mark the unfortunate closing of the Odeon Cinema in Nottingham. The Odeon was the first multi-screen cinema in the UK.
Filmed by Bill Freeman and John Walker narrated by Alan Simpson
Link to photo of Shipstone's Golden Key pub:
nottstalgia.com...

[@The.Magnificent.one.2025]

I love old cinemas. Not so many left now.

[@michaelmurphy7272]

Thank you for uploading this..... I grew up in Nottingham through all the 70's & 80's and left in 89 and I haven't been been back once since...... Since seeing your upload I've decided to go back and have a look at my old stomping grounds.... Bless you

[@evangeloskanalis6887]

I love Nottingham

[@The.Magnificent.one.2025]

So do I. I spent a large and memorable part of my childhood there. Always missed it.

[@pinky-ud1rt]

I worked at the odeon in 1986 loved it the best job i ever had met barbra windser got her autograpth she was opening a new shop in the odeon

[@stofferrussell]

The 3 I remember from Nottingham are The Savoy, Odeon and ABC. I watched Superman, Star Wars and 2001 at the Savoy in the days where the films were in two parts and the usherettes sold ice cream in little tubs and Butterkist toffee popcorn.

[@aaronhussain3873]

I still go to savoy with my friends, lovely place and I really hope it stays there!

[@Georgiahulse]

This is amazing! Thank you so much for allowing me to see my home city back in the decade I was born. You are a star :)

[@ijc1958]

Great stuff I left Nottingham in 1970 but i still remember it well I used to go to the Odeon every week on saturday mornings and saw my old bus school stop in the video Many many thanks for the memories

[@edwardbarr1533]

I am not a Nottingham man but I'm delighted to have found this video the Odeon was their prototype twinning exercise note the Cinemacchanica projectors and solid state amplification then state of the art.Nice also to see the old old ABC symbol. Futurists were once an important second run chain now sadly long gone.This film is of,great value Thankyou for sharing it

[@neilbain8736]

I've been told here were 50 cinemas in Nottingham by WW2 or maybe just after and each suburb would have at least one local cinema. People moved had different habits then. Even today there's many repurposed old cinemas in the suburbs and its always interesting to come across them. I remember a couple of years ago when a homeless person froze to death in the doorway of the old Odeon on Angel Row, just round from where I was staying.

[@icecoldmythos]

Thats great, My mums Grandparents ran the pub in the 50s. In recent years she searched for a picture and info on the pub, but never found anything. She sadly passed away a couple of years ago and would have loved the clip of the Golden Key.

[@abc-ni9uw]

1 word - Beautiful!

[@mpsnottingham]

Exellent video good old days i wish i could turn the clock back thank you.

[@icecoldmythos]

Thanks for that, I`ve just checked it out, the picture is great. Many thanks.

[@LPCLASSICAL]

Great memories from the Nottingham odeon - when Ghostbusters came out in the 80s there was a cue stretching past the library wasy past the toy shop. I liked the ABC better though - I saw Jaws there in 1977.

[@cps2715]

i saw 'A view to a kill' & 'Return of the jedi' at the Odeon. I watched Ghostbusters in Ilkeston. My first cinema experience was 82' when ET came out, i was 5 yrs old.

[@TomnookHD]

I asked the question on the Nottingham forum and someone was good enough to respond and to also post a photo of the pub. You might like to check it out - the link is in the video description as I'm unable to post it here.

[@Georgiahulse]

I was born in the 70s, not the 60s! Oops. Walked down Angel Row today and saw the fading outlines of the "ODEON" sign where the cinema was, up there against the concrete. Was quite striking after seeing this video.

[@satbilla9291]

Remember the ocean used to go there a lot shame it’s gone. All change

[@haynesexplores9082]

Saturday mornings ABC minors at the Metropole Sherwood in the early 70s when I was at Junior School.😀 Cartoons and a Film. Used to be about 5p to get in.

[@TomnookHD]

Yes, you're quite right - it was "The Golden Key"

[@peterfrench1683]

What was the cinema at 3:48? smashing little film by the way, enjoyed it

[@sarahgingerginger121]

Hi great film indeed thanks for up loading, it his could really help my new project for uni, how did you get this I'm looking for archive from that era I have from the fiftie but I was missing the 70 it's for a doc for my final uni assignment, please get in touch if you know how I can get permission to use it or if you have the rights please please please xx

[@manoftrent71]

John Shuttleworth with the narration here.

[@mrmagicroundcircle]

what about doing pubs of the seventies

[@icecoldmythos]

Does anyone know the name of the Shipstones pub next to the Moulin Rouge at 0:20 seconds ? Was it called The Golden Key ?

[@mrmagicroundcircle]

used to get pissed in yates wine lodge when dublin danny ran the place

[@MANTLEBERG]

I have a film that need puting on th dvd, but ive no gear left to do it, its a short abour Aberistywth, to put on the tube,...any volunteers? please contact me, thanks MB.

[@leelaird1544]

Look more 80s

[@kenstevens5065]

Cinema In Nottingham as everywhere and much else is sadly going the way of shopping, highjacked by the great God Internet. We'll ALL soon be sat in our little cells, waiting for life to pass us by.

[@GeorgeASFTHM]

A good day for Julie Andrews fans I see.

[@Greg62150]

"The futurist savoy" lol

[@MANTLEBERG]

Hi for the conclusion of the odeon,,,,,search for "last day odeon"

[@taniastevenson4868]

Ironic that the clip discusses the magic of the projectionist and their cuts whilst the video has some awful audio edits. Lol

[@richardsnow]

Great. Sad that The Savoy is the only decent cinema left.

[@PGBrown-qu8yz]

Pity about squashing 4:3 into widescreen. Quite barbaric for a cinephile.

[@mariewilson5460]

Hi, Could the Nottingham post feature this video online please? - with a credit of course. [e-mail]