The Filming of Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius in St Andrews
On Sunday 24th August 2003, filming began on the Old Course in St Andrews.
Read More100 years ago…
This week (Wednesday 4th December) marked the 100th anniversary of the opening of St Andrews’ first purpose-built cinema, The Cinema House. If you wanted to watch films in town at this point, you would have to go to the ‘tin tabernacle’ – a former Roman Catholic Church that was literally dragged a mile across town from The Scores and repositioned in less civilised surroundings next to the slaughter house off James Street – and which since 1910 had shown films three nights a week (and had roller skating the other nights!). The Cinema House was opened by Provost John...
Read MoreThe Cinema House’s Golden Jubilee
In December 1963, The Cinema House celebrated its Golden Jubilee. In the extended build up to the celebrations – marked by gold posters and banner advertisements celebrating the cinema’s continued role in ‘entertaining town and gown’ – The Citizen explained that ‘a number of local people who attended the original opening performance’ had been invited to attend a Jubilee screening. These included Mrs J. Lindsay, who was a cashier at the box office in 1913, Arnott Fyfe, who was assisting in the operating box, and Strathkinnes schoolmaster W. Howie (who was then a boy). The...
Read MoreInterview: David Puttnam on St Andrews
In March 2012, shortly before the re-release of Chariots of Fire which would coincide with the London Olympics, Producer David Puttnam returned to St Andrews and spoke to us about his memories of filming on the beach, 32 years earlier. Included here is audio of the discussion we had with him. First, Puttnam discussed how they came to shoot the film in St Andrews. Puttnam on finding St Andrews He further discussed the two days spent filming on the beach. Filming on West Sands The shoot took place against the jarring backdrop of international news events. The Iran hostage crisis Puttnam also...
Read MoreThe Birds
The Cinema St Andrews film season concludes tomorrow night with our final screening, which brings together some local footage of St Andrews with Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. The screening takes place in School 3, St Salvator’s Quad at 7pm and is free to all. The screening will reproduce a film show from The Cinema House in 1963, which marked the 50th anniversary of the cinema’s opening. A further fifty years on (and with The Cinema House now a block of flats), we will mark the centenary of St Andrews’ first purpose built cinema by recreating this commemorative show. The...
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