In fact, the entire film was way ahead of what had happened before - as far as I could tell - and I was so impressed that I went to the Cosmo in Glasgow, a small arthouse cinema, and saw it at least six times. I have no idea if the Cosmo still exists,
Not only does it still exist it is going strong. Now called the GFT. The Glasgow Film Theatre. A mixture of foreign films and the off beat. It has two cinemas. I don't know if it had in the Cosmo days. Also a nice bar restaurant. I visit it fairly regularly.
Hi stamper - nice to know that some things still survive! In the 50s it was a single-screen thing - I don't think the concept for more existed at the time. Hell, it took all my pocket money to go
once!
Another place I used to go to twice a week was the Tudor in Giffnock. It then became a supermarket - Safeway, I seem to remember - and last I heard that, too, had changed and it was something else - flats, I think. Don't tell me Rouken Glen has vanished too? No, I know it hasn't; my daughter sometimes still goes there with her family and they think of the years up to '81 when we lived just a few yards from it. I used to take our alsabrador for two one-hour walks a day there, rain, snow or sunshine. The pond also has memories for me: we shot a calendar for Barbour Threads
in a single day doing pics of an Iranian girl called Jaleh (from Bobton's in London) on the water and also down around the waterfall... boy, did the creative juices flow in those early days! It never crossed our minds that anything could/would go wrong and it seldom did. How unlike today, were I leave home sometimes and wonder if whoever finds me will be able to figure out what to do with the bits. Eff me!
Rob C