These Lights Must Not Go Out

Another gem from the Pathe vaults! It begins with the Empire Leicester Square at night. Crowds in the front of the cinema greets the stars who arrive: Jack Hawkins, Gary Cooper, Richard Todd. Inside the cinema more stars are seen: Kenneth More, John Mills with wife and daughter, Marilyn Monroe, Diana Dors chatting to Sir Laurence Olivier. “The whole cinema industry staggers under a backbreaking burden, the entertainments tax. Relief must come.” The running time was only 5 or 6 minutes so we added the Dam Busters world premiere. Simple artwork from Marianne Frost, but don’t recall printing it.

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