The Continentale Cinema Sudeley St....

TheDuke

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....anyone remember it? Bit bored this afternoon, so in comes nostalga. I lived up the road opposite the hospital but remember this F licks... having read a bit more about it, it seemed to be the home of some soft pron movies. Anyone else know it?

 

clippedgull

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Aug 11, 2003

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• Nov 4, 2013

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Yes. Bunked in there back in the early 70's

 

Nibble

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• Nov 4, 2013

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I lived on Sudeley Place for a while, had a sniff about. UK's first Titty Flicks shack I think.

 

Gilliver's Travels

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Soft pron, you say? You can't surely mean all those highly educational travelogues, with titles like "As Nature Intended", featuring young women from Sweden who, at the slightest ray of seaside sunshine, were overcome by an irresistible urge to throw off all their clothes and play naked ping-pong in the woods, while other nubiles rushed off into the water clutching a strategically-placed beach ball?

I have no idea what you're talking about.

 

Kumquat

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Slight typo indeed there but I've personally never been into the proms so wouldn't have been my particular bag.

 

glasfryn

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• Nov 4, 2013

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I along with many of my friends would remember it well
I also think when I first went there it had wooden benches

 

TheDuke

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Kumquat said:

Slight typo indeed there but I've personally never been into the proms so wouldn't have been my particular bag.

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You blokes are very cruel...a small mishap on the typing finger

 

Boys 9d

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Never went to the Continentale but remember going to the Paris in New Road where I saw some of the great French New Wave films and also classic films by Ingmar Bergman.

 

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m.c.hamster

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TheDuke said:

....anyone remember it? Bit bored this afternoon, so in comes nostalga. I lived up the road opposite the hospital but remember this FView attachment 48333licks... having read a bit more about it, it seemed to be the home of some soft pron movies. Anyone else know it?

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I saw a soft porn film there called Take Me Love Me when I was 15 (and didn't look 18). It was fantastic.

 

glasfryn

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Boys 9d said:

Never went to the Continentale but remember going to the Paris in New Road where I saw some of the great French New Wave films and also classic films by Ingmar Bergman.

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another great place often visited

 

tinycowboy

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Always fascinated by its listing in the (Evening) Argus, never went because I was about 9.

 

Uncle Spielberg

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I went there at 18 to see some porn and it was very tame quite frankly. Disappointed.

 

Garage_Doors

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• Nov 4, 2013

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Is the building still there? Is so what is used for these days?

 

El Sid

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Someone told me they used to have strippers on between films allegedly.

Or was that the one out by the giratory?

 

TheDuke

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Uncle Spielberg said:

I went there at 18 to see some porn and it was very tame quite frankly. Disappointed.

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3 years ago... porn moved on US

 

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Gwylan

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The only time I went there was, believe or not, to see Summer Holiday back in 1963. And, it wasn't a porn version where Una Stubbs showed Cliff the deepest recesses of the lower deck

 

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El Sid said:

Someone told me they used to have strippers on between films allegedly.

Or was that the one out by the giratory?

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The Vogue, did hear about that place having strippers, right bunch of hooligans at Saturday morning pictures in that place , one lad got chucked out and banned for chucking a smoke bomb onto the stage

 

Seagull on the wing

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TheDuke said:

....anyone remember it? Bit bored this afternoon, so in comes nostalga. I lived up the road opposite the hospital but remember this FView attachment 48333licks... having read a bit more about it, it seemed to be the home of some soft pron movies. Anyone else know it?

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Did go there once,at one time there was so many cinemas you could'nt get to all in one week
Cinemas Academy
Astoria
Continentale
Curzon
Duke of York
Embassy
Essoldo
Gaiety
Granada (Hove)
Imperial
Odeon (Brighton)
Odeon (Kemp Town)
Odeon (Hove)
Palladium
Paris
Princess News
Regent
Rothbury
Savoy
The Lido
The Empire
Theatre Royal
Gem..(French films)
There were many more tiny 'fleapits'.
The first film exhibition in Britain was on 21st Feb 1896 shown in central London. A month later the first show outside London was in Brighton. By Christmas the Theatre Royal included a film item using British Theatrograph system.

All info from Brighton and Hove Cinemas by Allen Eyles