Liverpool Odeon screen #1 1968.

Having spent forty years as a motion picture projectionist - most of it through the Wide Screen Era, the demise of 70mm has been a sore point with me for quite some time.

In Liverpool, I am the last of the original 70mm "Road Show" projectionists with any connection to to-day’s movie business. When the term "Blockbuster" is applied to anything and everything with a two or three week run, and with little or no audience watching, then it is easy to see that the cinema has lost its way.

With all the talk of Digital Cinema taking over from Celluloid, it has long been my view that we need to slow down and take a look back to the days of good cinema - and that includes 70mm. The two photographs enclosed show Liverpool Odeon One in 1968, and the Philips DP70 in the projection room. To-day that has all gone and the theatre has been converted into three mini cinemas. No 70mm.