Alfred Hitchcock - The Master of Suspense. Filmmaking.com. Movies Found Online - Watch free streaming films online (incl. public domain) Star Trek | Official Movie Site | Own it today on Blu-Ray and DVD | Star Trek Movie. Wallace & Gromit - The Official Site. 451 gallery. Www.marxbrothers.nu. Whats on at Flicks Cinema, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. Cinema Treasures | Flicks 1 & 2 Cinemas. The Century Cinema opened on 25th July 1936 with the film “When Knights Were Bold” starring Jack Buchanan and Fay Wray. It was designed in a splendid Art Deco style by local Clacton architect G.H.B. Gould and had seating for 1,743 (1,428 in the stalls and 486 in the circle). There was a cafe/ballroom located on the mezannine floor level above the entrance. There were full stage facilities and six dressing rooms provided and for the first few months of operation it had a cine/variety policy. A Christie 3Manual/7Rank organ was installed that had an illuminated console and it was opened by Frank Matthew.
The Century Cinema was taken over by the Essoldo chain in 1946 and re-named Essoldo. Classic Cinemas took control in 1967 and the building was twinned with a Bingo club operating downstairs in the former stalls area and a cinema converted out of the former circle upstairs that had been extended forward to provide 600 seats which became Classic 1. Contributed by KenRoe. Sound Design of Star Wars. Compiled by Sven E Carlsson Sounddesigner Ben Burtt's responsibility on Star Wars was to create specifically unusual sounds - weapons, vehicles, character and key backgrounds. Ben Burtt was a film sound buff as a child (he recorded and replayed the sound tracks of his favorite movies) Burtt enrolled at the university of Southern California's film school with the intention of becoming a director.
He received a student job cataloguing the Columbia sound library, which had been donated to the University. A call by Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz to U.S.C. led to a successful interview for Burtt. He was given carte blanche to work out of his apartment near the U.S.C. campus in order to collect at a leisure pace those sounds that might be useful. He spent a year recording anything that could be turned upside down and backwards to make Lucas world come alive.