I think the picture of the close up of the Kalee 21 projector was really taken at the Odeon Bath, as it shows the top of the western electric sound head the Forum had full Kalee 20 machines but the odeon across the road where I worked had a Kalee 21 head but Western sound
I was a projectionist at the Odeon from 1959-1968 it was a cinema that time forgot with very old projection equipment and only in the latter years did they install Kalee 21s to replace the Kalee 12s the western sound system was run on batteries that had to be charged every other day
this Theatre played a big part in the Bath festival every year, showing special films for this ocasion one year was a world premier
In 1962 and again in 1968 that part of Bath was flooded when the river Avon burst it’s banks the Oden was flooded out and was closed for many week while new seats were put in and everything dried out
I have many memories of this cinema and being in my 70s now not many people left that do remember
I think the picture of the close up of the Kalee 21 projector was really taken at the Odeon Bath, as it shows the top of the western electric sound head the Forum had full Kalee 20 machines but the odeon across the road where I worked had a Kalee 21 head but Western sound
I was a projectionist at the Odeon from 1959-1968 it was a cinema that time forgot with very old projection equipment and only in the latter years did they install Kalee 21s to replace the Kalee 12s the western sound system was run on batteries that had to be charged every other day this Theatre played a big part in the Bath festival every year, showing special films for this ocasion one year was a world premier
In 1962 and again in 1968 that part of Bath was flooded when the river Avon burst it’s banks the Oden was flooded out and was closed for many week while new seats were put in and everything dried out I have many memories of this cinema and being in my 70s now not many people left that do remember