Title
Picture Palace Cinema
Subject
Picture Palace Cinema
Description
Erik Brownlow recalls working at the Picture Palace cinema as a musician during the 1920s.
Creator
East Midlands Oral History Archive
Source
EMOHA
Publisher
EMOHA
Date
1986
Contributor
Photograph courtesy of Cinema Treasures. To use seek permission from http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/47874
Rights
You may use this item in accordance with the licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/
Format
.mp3
Type
Oral History
Duration
1min 07sec
Transcription
I left school at 13 and at 14 I was a professional violinist at the old Palace at Melton Mowbray… We had to play while the film was on. It was a bit comical in some respects really, because we didn’t used to fit the music to the films in those days, you know, so there were occasions no doubt when the music we were playing wouldn’t have entirely fit the film, but it didn’t matter, nobody bothered in those days…we used to extemporise a good deal then you see. We just took it by ear as it went along, that sort of thing…it worked out alright… It was about 1921 when it closed down and they built the new place and I went up there. That was called the Picture House and that was built by, well the same people that owned the Palace actually… Very modern the new one was…it was like coming out of a dungeon into Buckingham Palace, you know, it really was.
Interviewer
J. Florance
Interviewee
Erik Brownlow
Location
Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
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