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Halliwell, Leslie

Seats in All Parts: Half a Lifetime at the Movies

Grafton Books, 1986

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Year of publication
1986
ISBN
0586069232
Place of printing
London
Author
Halliwell, Leslie
Publishers
Grafton Books
Edition
1st Pbk Edition
Keyword
BIOGRAPHY UNITED KINGDOM FILMS.CINEMA MOVIES
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

Prewar Bolton boasted scores of cinemas and young Leslie Halliwell, accompanied by his mother, visited most of them. In the depressed and decaying industrial North, gopring to the pictures was an escape into fantasy from a grim world of poverty and unemployment. The great - and not-so-great - stars and moves of the 1930s inspired Halliwell's lifelong fascination with film and formed the habits of list making and brief assessment that have made him a world authority on the cinema. This book provides a fascinating glimpse into the early life of the doyen of film buffs - as a child, as a Cambridge undergraduate and as the young manager of the cinema that started the whole craze for classic movies.320p +plates. index.