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CALLINGTON

Town Hall

Situated in Callington's small town hall, this part-time operation was first run by Mr Strutt of Torpoint and ran other mobile cinema operations in the area. The hall was licenced for 250 from the 1920s.   Then William John Hocking was running a cinema here in the mid 1930s, the sound system was Imperial.   Changing hands, Ernest Levi Honour, a local man was running the operation after World War II.  The operation by the 1960s was once a week, with sound by BH and was now run as a 16mm cinema.  The proscenium was 14' 6" in width and the screen 13' 10" wide.  Surprisingly the film shows continued, run by Mr W E Hicks right into the 1970s.

Temperance ~ Public Hall

This was Callington's other part-time cinema, situated in a building directly adjacent to the Temperance Hotel.  Operated by John Henry Quick & Sons of Saltash as a once a week operation from early 1920s.  By 1935  sound had been installed, RCA Photophone Inc.  Briefly run by Mr Strutt in the mid 1930s. The Temperance Hall was basically square and at some point, the orientation was changed.  Originally the operating box had been in the hall, at the front wall and the screen at the rear.  This was changed along with the seating so the screen was on the left wall and the projection box was moved into the Temperance Hotel itself, though the wall to the right of the hall.  The operation appears to have ceased by, or soon after the war.

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