{"product_id":"9781803133324-reel-life-behind-the-screen-a-cinema-m","title":"Reel Life Behind the Screen: A Cinema Manager Remembers","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA memoir\u003cbr\u003eA nostalgic tome dedicated solely to subjective recollections of the thrilling drama of a cinema manager arranging cinema usherette rotas and checking choc-ice deliveries might not be expected to attract many readers.  Yet weird stuff kept happening to me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA nostalgic tome dedicated solely to subjective recollections of the thrilling drama of a cinema manager arranging cinema usherette rotas and checking choc-ice deliveries might not be expected to attract many readers. Yet weird stuff kept happening to Nick Scudamore doing just this. Here he offers a memoir of sticky seats and of scary situations; dead bodies, robberies, audience near riots, bizarre public misbehaviour, even the occasional celebrity. And remarkable movies from the 1970s and 1980s, from high end art-house all the way through to soft-core smut and teen-trash. Both as a memoir and as social history, this autobiography provides much of interest for both the contemporary film enthusiast as well as for the historically curious general reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 1979 to 1987 Nick served as manager to a series of art-house cinemas in London, \u003cem\u003ethe Screen on Islington Green\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eParis Pullman in Chelsea\u003c\/em\u003e to name but two. The operational and economic context of films and the film business as a whole has changed so very much in the forty years since the events he remembers that it seems now worthwhile to record just a little of this pre-internet history before it fades from his memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40945666523233,"sku":"9781803133324","price":11.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_8398031_jpg.jpg?v=1712874130","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781803133324-reel-life-behind-the-screen-a-cinema-m","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}