Extract from Mark Sandoz's letter
Early in 1995 Mark Sandoz of Tanworth in Arden in Warwickshire heard about Cinema Culture in 1930s Britain, responding with a four-page letter about his early filmgoing. Born in Southsea, Hampshire in1920, he grew up in Birmingham, leaving school at sixteen to pursue a career in engineering and draughtsmanship. In his letter he notes that his first remembered cinema visit, at the age of three, he saw a Felix the Cat cartoon. He remembers silent films with their live musical accompaniment, vividly recalling the lady pianist at one cinema who “was always greeted with a great roar from the scruffy kids; and seeing Al Jolson in the earliest talkie,
The Singing Fool. Later in 1995, Mr Sandoz took part in CCINTB’s postal questionnaire survey.