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So did the hollywood norwich use film reels to the end because i know great yarmouth did change to digital.

Saw 2 movies here! Lovely auditorium. Saw Heaven Can Wait in 35mm (Julie Cristie, Warren Beaty version) and Star Trek 2 The Wrath Of Khan in 70mm! Sad to see it unused a week ago! Hope it may be "resurrected" one day as a cinema

Sad to see the old place not in use and today borded up by wood, always used the hollywood for our cinema goings. It was well managed It's not the same going to the vue or the odeon

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I'd never seen this before- great to learn about the Mayes family involvement in Fakenham and see some different clips of the reopening in 2000.

I remember the since-demolished ABC cinema at the top of Regent's Road. You could see the ABC lights from the Acle Straight. There was also a cinema at the Empire and the Windmill on GY seafront. Closed years ago but then both were opened again in the mid '90s, or thereabouts.

Well it lasted for another 18 years so not too bad of an investment.

What a beautiful old theatre/cinema, I really hope someone takes it on and bring it back to life somehow. If not a cinema or theatre I'm sure it could be a attraction of some kind. 😊

Hi do you have any footage of Great Yarmouth Hollywood cinema, I grew up going here I used to love that place, Sadly now being the Arc Cinema it has.the same feel as all the others and lacks the atmosphere it once had

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My mother, Frances Roberts, was a friend of Michael's. She used to send him autographed photos of some of the movie stars she knew and had worked with. He used to call her, "the Lady from Hollywood." We visited Michael and his replica theater in 1998, with my 13 and 9 year old daughters. He showed us a film and served treats from an usher's tray. We have lovely memories from that day, and I'm sad that he's gone. Frances died just two months before Michael, at the age of 97, from dementia. She always spoke fondly of Michael and had hoped to see him again. Maybe, now, she has. (I have photos from that day, if anyone is interested.)

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A black Zionist religious group based in London now owns this building. Not sure what they intend to do with it. It was recently listed as one of many theatres worth preserving by a national theatre heritage foundation. I fear it may just rot unused until it is demolished.

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Thanks for posting this excellent video. This is a tribute to its original creator Fredrick Holmes Cooper who opened it in 1914 on Boxing day in the era of silent films, but the building also doubled as a theatre for live entertainment. The story goes that there was a cottage on the original site and the owner refused to move so they just carried on building around his home until he eventually gave in and left. The building has become close to demolition on more than one occasion and it is thanks to the efforts of supporters, including the late Ken Dodd and Roy Hudd, that ensured it was granted a Grade 2 listing by the DOE. As with many of these buildings it was Bingo that saved it. It needs restoring and brought back to a useful life.

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50 years, it seems like just yesterday. Not many cinemas of this style around these days. Thanks for the memory. Long live the cinema!!!!!

Fantastic memories of this cinema from the 90s.. hope it gets a new lease of life

Those were the days... real film projectors!

Thanks for uploading, I remember this but just wonder what will become of the building and cinema now.

They don't make films like this anymore, great times!

Really interesting I was too young to visit the regent as a cinema but have fond memories of the ABC that got knocked down which still shocks me to this day they were allowed to do this.

Thank you for posting this, I used to work in here when it was the Mecca bingo in the 90s sad to see it how it is now, such a lovely building that deserves to be preserved somehow.

Glad to see you now have a youtube channel. Yes the Regent was the best cinema in Gt Yarmouth. The 70mm shows were out of this world, 2001 A Space Odyssey springs to mind. Would be nice to see the old place reopened.