Smelly Screens & Moving Seats At The UK's First 4DX Cinema | Swipe
On this week's Swipe, Stuart Duggan reports from a new kind of cinema screen with moving chairs, weather effects and smells.
Gemma Morris tries out 4DX and fails in her attempts to avoid the cinema's water spray effects.
And games journalist Cam Robinson gives us his take on titles including Grim Fandango and Life Is Strange in our games review.
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A DANCER prepared for the biggest night of his life by showing off some of his best moves ahead of a Britain's Got Talent semi-final.
Kieran Lai showed off his moves and wowed the public as he prepared for his TV appearance at Empire Cinema on the Festival Leisure Park in Basildon.
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New Village (1968)
New Ash Green, Kent.
Succession of shots of rural England. Lovely trees in bloom, country cottages... Greater public demand for return to village life has inspired a group of builders and architects to build a new village which corresponds to demands of contemporary life without disturbing rural balance. If it proves successful, the scheme could be applied elsewhere in Britain - voiceover concludes.
Men are seen discussing a model of a new village spread in front of them. Several H/A shots of the model. Cut to location of the new village near Hartly in Kent. New village is called New Ash Green and it is located within easy commuting range of London.
Succession of shots showing different stages of creating the new village. People building, painting, decorating and finally planting grass plants and trees to blend with the environment.
Various shots of the finished village. Houses, gardens, pedestrian paths... Various shots of the interior of the houses showing spacious rooms filled with modern furniture, modern kitchen etc.
FILM ID:457.13
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New City Car (1969)
NEW CITY CAR.
Ford Research Centre, Dunton. Bedfordshire.
Various shots during a demonstration of a new city car by its designer, Dawson Sellar, to Ford's Director of Engineering, Fred Ray.
The car is of the three-wheel type which turns easily in its own length and parks in its own width. It is still in skeleton form with no body for the demonstration.
FILM ID:3271.03
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River Of Gold - Tobacco (1969)
Basildon. Carreras.
Reception area of smart offices, deserted at night. Interior tobacco processing factory.
James River. USA
Drifting past Cypress trees growing in water. American Indian cutting tobacco leaves.
Williamsburg. Horse and buggy rides past old Colonial houses. A soldier in colonial dress stands guard. Plantation house in Virginia owned by George Washington. Street of houses. Tobacco plantation being harvested and sorted. Hung on sticks the leaves are put into curing sheds. The dried leaves are removed and driven to town. Lumberton N.C. and tobacco warehouse signs. Inside a tobacco auction is going on (fast talking) with buyers looking at the leaves. After purchase the tobacco is regraded and cured further. Tobacco rammed into 900lb hogs heads and driven away in large trucks.
New Basildon, Essex.
Old part of town with pretty cottages. New Basildon with modern shopping mall and high rise buildings including Carreras. Staff in the canteen. Tobacco in hogsheads driven into the warehouse . Bonded warehouse Intr. as fork lift piles up the hogsheads. Check to customs for £250000 (one days worth of tax). Leave Dept. Tobacco is unpacked and graded. A probe is inserted and moist air passed through the tobacco. Tobacco is stored in stainless steel boxes until it achieves the correct moisture level.
The tobacco is put onto the production line, threshed, rested in silo's to even out the moisture, and cut. More samples are taken from the conveyor belts of tobacco. After drying in revolving drums the tobacco is carried along tunnels of air to more silo's. Shots of filter making. Long filters are cut into shorter lengths
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In the quality control area, lots of high tech. machines and glass tubes of cigarette smoke being analyzed. Some guilt emphasis on how careful they are. Looking through microscopes and machines smoking and analyzing the smoke. State of the art computers of the day.
Enormous factory floor of the making machines turning out 2000 cigarettes a minute for just one machine. Lots of wheels turning, conveyor belts, and fags on the move. More quality control shots. High tech. machines with dials and needles. Masses of cigarettes appearing in collection areas being fed down into single cigarettes for packing.
Cigarettes being packed into packets and cartons of Piccadilly and Guards, more high speed production shots. Men moving pallets of cartons of cigarettes in large warehouse for distribution. Two lorries marked Piccadilly & Guards leaving the factory.
FILM ID:2701.01
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Twins Rule The School (1947)
Glenelg, South Australia.
There are 12 sets of twins in one Australian school. LS. A line up of all the twins. CU. Twin girls. CU. Twin boys drinking out of cups. MS. Various shots of the children playing. Good shot of a stork with big placard around neck reading 'Glenelg School Unfair to Storks Union'.
Note - the date found in the old record 10/03/1947.
FILM ID:2136.17
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Southend Today - 2nd February
SEVEN HOTEL OFFICIAL OPENING TOMORROW, EMPIRE CINEMA TO BE THE ON THE SEAWAY DEVELOPMENT, SOUTHEND'S M&S IS SAFE FOR NOW
Hello and welcome to today's edition to Southend Today. Empire cinema has signed a deal to provide Southend with its first IMAX Screen. The project proposal for the Seaway car park off Lucy road will include an 11 screen cinema with 1,370 seats. It has been confirmed the Southend's Marks and Spencer will stay in Southend High Street, after the news that M&S in Basildon could be closing down. The lunch of the luxurious Seven Hotel Southend in Clifton Terrace is due to have its grand opening tomorrow. The hotel includes a 70 seat restaurant as well as a gin-centric cocktail bar. Which has 30 different Gins on offer to guests.
Have your say in the comments below and don't forget to contact us if you have a story you want to share, email: hello@southendtv.co.uk
Metro goes panto
Actor Christopher Biggins prepares for panto at the Theatre Royal Plymouth where he plays Sarah the Cook in Dick Whittington. 19.12.2013
Josh meets Simon Fielding at Sleeping Beauty panto, Basildon
So funny, Joshua met Simon Fielding during the break in Sleeping Beauty panto at Basildon's towndate theatre!
Table Tennis (1969)
No title - Nissen Table Tennis Tournament. Crystal Palace, London.
L/S the Nissen Table Tennis Tournament in progress at Crystal Palace. Zoom in to Mrs Mary Wright, playing back to camera, versus Mrs Pauline Piddock, facing camera. M/S Mrs Piddock. M/S rally in progress, Mrs Piddock loses the point. C/U the table. Zoom back to show Men's Final in progress. Facing camera is Alan Hydes. Back to camera Malcolm Sugden, (Scottish). Various shots rally in progress. C/U Hydes. Various shots of the match. M/S Hydes, zoom back as Hydes loses point and Malcolm Sugden wins match.
M/S Mary Wright preparing to serve for Women's Finals. M/S as opponent Jill Shirley, returns the ball. (Jill is facing the camera). Various shots of the rally. C/U Mary Wright. M/S rally. C/U Jill. M/S rally still in progress. M/S Mary Wright, C/U Jill Shirley's feet. M/S Jill, she hits net which gives game to Mary Wright. C/U and L/S Jill Shirley reaching forward for the ball. M/S as Jill walks round table to congratulate Mary. C/U Malcolm Sugden, looking Googly-Eyed, down at his cheque for £100. C/U cheque. C/U Malcolm Sugden and Mary Wright laughing.
FILM ID:2231.07
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Pm Sees New Towns (1959)
Title reads: PM sees New Towns.
Stevenage, Hertfordshire and Harlow, Essex.
Panning shot Prime Minister Harold Macmillan walking through Stevenage new town. He visits Co-operative supermarket (Co-op) and talks to the shop assistants. An elderly woman and a small boy, both holding Hugh Gaitskell placards, try to give Macmillan a Labour Party pamphlet as he walks through crowd. Prime Minister visits modern housing estate and poses for press with a mother and her children.
Various shots Prime Minister visiting modern Health Clinic in Harlow new town. Prime Minister watches the activities inside the clinic (babies being weighed), mothers with babies sit in waiting room. Prime Minister walking across playing field followed by crowds of children. The Prime Minister signing autograph books for the children and walks across the field with them.
Note: press release about the PM's visit and Royal visit commemorative programme are on file.
FILM ID:1577.22
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Two go mad at party in the park
Deb and Pete at Party in the Park, Halstead, Essex
New Market Place (1969)
No titles.
Basildon, Essex.
Various shots of four plastic domes that have been erected at Basildon to provide shelter for market stalls. We see inside the domes, empty except for the bare stalls. Each dome has lighting.
General views of work in progress on a new flyover - the main reason for the new domes.
Several shots of the old market, with people looking at goods, buying and selling. Stalls seen are selling potted plants, records and eggs. A man on the record stall looks very cold.
Back at the domes we see the market in full swing with people wandering about and looking at stalls. Commentator talks of this being just one of the ideas of this go-ahead town for communal living.
Cataloguer's note: I think the domes look a bit dreary and smelly, but they must have seemed very modern at the time.
FILM ID:2095.01
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FLIC Wiltshire | I prefer marvin interview
filmed at the empire cinema for steve ware promoting i prefer marvin a new film that will be shown at empire cinemas in october.
flic wiltshire done a interview just letting us know a bit about the new film.
filmed on a canon 550D/REBEL T2i Darrens new camera.
( Filmed and edited by Darren Potter of infinite 8 productions )
( infinite8productions.co.uk )
English Sculpture In Australia (1963)
Sydney, Australia.
Title reads 'Modern British Sculpture on Show'.
GV. Stone columned front of Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. Various shots around exhibition of contemporary British sculpture on display at the gallery. Various works are displayed including works by famous artist Henry Moore.
(Comb.F.G.)
Date found in the old record - 20/11/1965.
FILM ID:3139.08
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Sarah The Cook
The traditional British Amateur Pantomime. Take one girl.... dress her as the principle boy, take one man dress him as the dame. Fill a theatre with young families, and there you have it, interactive live & hilarious entertainment!
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Festival Of London (1962)
Titles read: FESTIVAL OF LONDON.
Various shots of a fairground in the City of London as part of the Festival of London. People wander around stalls, try their luck on the hoopla stall and eat candy floss. A man tries to throw a sack of something over two rugby goal posts in the street.
People look at a large fairground organ. A group of people in the crowd seem to be trying to do the hokey cokey in the street. Two cool girls jive together in the crush. A couple do the twist.
FILM ID:1725.22
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