The Rex Cinema - Berkhamsted - Behind the Scenes
A little gem, hidden down a side street of leafy Berkhamsted - The Rex Cinema is a charming throwback to 1930s art-deco and traditional cinema and film.
Originally designed by David Nye in 1936 and opened in 1938, it was re-opened by owner, James Hannaway, in 2004. Hannaway restored the cinema to its former glory and it now sells out most days and is cherished by many.
The cinema is a small piece of history that oozes style, class and luxury.
I went behind the scenes and spoke to James Hannaway and the staff at The Rex to find out a bit more about what goes on in this little cinema.
The Rex, Berkhamsted
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Places to see in ( Berkhamsted - UK )
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Berkhamsted is a medium-sized historic market town on the western edge of Hertfordshire, England. The affluent commuter town is located in the small Bulbourne valley in the Chiltern Hills, 26 miles northwest of London. Berkhamsted is a civil parish, with a town council within the larger borough of Dacorum.
People have been living in the Berkhamsted area for over 5,000 years. There is evidence of flint working in the Neolithic period and metal working in the late Iron Age and Roman periods. The high street is on a pre-Roman route known by its Saxon name Akeman Street. The earliest written reference to Berkhamsted is in 970AD. Berkhamsted was recorded as a 'burbium' (an ancient borough) in the Domesday Book in 1086. The oldest known extant jettied timber-framed building in Great Britain, built 1277 - 1297, survives as a shop on the town's high street.
The most important event in the town's history was in December 1066. After William the Conqueror defeated King Harold's Anglo-Saxon army at the Battle of Hastings, the Anglo-Saxon leadership surrendered to the Norman encampment at Berkhamsted. The event was recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. From 1066 to 1495, Berkhamsted Castle was a favoured residence held by many English royals, including Henry II and Edward, the Black Prince; and historical figures such as Thomas Becket and Geoffrey Chaucer. After the castle was abandoned in 1495 the town went into decline, losing its borough status in the second half of the 17th century. Modern Berkhamsted began to expand following the construction of the canal and the railway in the 19th century.
Among those born in Berkhamsted was Colonel Daniel Axtell, who was the captain of the Parliamentary Guard at the trial and execution of Charles I in 1649. The towns literary connections include the 17th century hymnist and poet, William Cowper, the 18th century writer Maria Edgeworth, and the 20th century novelist Graham Greene. The town is the location of Berkhamsted School, a co-educational boarding independent school, founded in 1541 by John Incent, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral; and Ashlyns School a state school whose history began as the Foundling Hospital established in London by Thomas Coram, in 1742. The town is home to the Rex Cinema (a highly regarded independent cinema) and the British Film Institute's BFI National Archive at King's Hill, one of the largest film and television archives in the world, which was endowed by J. Paul Getty, Jr.
The next stage in the town's transport history occurred in 1834 when, after opposition from turnpike trusts and local landowners was resolved, the first Berkhamsted railway station was built by chief engineer Robert Stephenson. Though the castle was the first building to receive statutory protection from Parliament, the railway embankment obliterated the old castle barbican and adjacent earthworks. Most of the raw materials used to build the railway were transported via the canal.
The majority of Berkhamsted's eighty-five listed or scheduled historical sites are on in the high street and the medieval core of the town (a significant number of them contain timber frames). Four are scheduled, one is Grade I, seven are Grade II*, the remaining 75 are Grade II. he Berkhamsted Canadian totem pole sits adjacent to the canal, close to Castle Street Bridge. In the early 1960s, Roger Alsford, a great-grandson of the founder of the timber company, James Alsford (1841–1912), went to work at the Tahsis lumber mill on Vancouver Island.
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OPENING OF THE REX CINEMA - SOUND
Exterior night shot. Evening dressed crowds in the Foyer. People outside. General public let in. Queue and buying tickets
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An earth mysteries field trip in 1995, to Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire and surrounding area, and subsequent discovery of leys skirting its edge, one of which goes to Camlet Moat, Enfield, which is known as London's Camelot.
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REX Cinema Intro - ApocaREX Now
The Rex Cinema, Wareham, England (therex.co.uk) is the one of the last gas-lit, independent cinemas in the world. This intro is one of a planned series in the style of famous movies by animator Dougal Dixon.
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Nderu Filmed At Berkhamsted (1930)
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.
Introductory intertitle reads: Nderu is a Burchell Zebra, and the word is native for Whiskers! And Whiskers is tame - that's the queer point, for this breed has practically never been tamed before. L/S of a doorway of a large house. A zebra walks out of the door and down the stone steps. M/S of the zebra being groomed by his master. The owner picks up one of the zebra's feet and shakes his hand.
Nderu loves the kiddies and will willingly carry them about - especially if she thinks there's some food in the offing. M/S of young boy riding the zebra. L/S of the family in the garden with their unusual pet. M/S of two girls sitting astride the zebra. C/U of boy stroking the nose of the zebra - cute! Life is easy for her - though probably she pines now and again for her Kenya friends. The zebra's owner plays a game of hide and seek with his pet. He hides behind a tree. Then pets the zebra when it finds him. M/S of the zebra walking away from the camera. He walks up the steps and into the house.
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Morris Dancing at Berkhamstead (1950) | BFI National Archive
A noble 600-year-old tradition is alive and well on the streets of Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire (home to the BFI's J. Paul Getty Conservation Centre). This charming amateur film from the early 1950s shows the morris men, accompanied by the traditional pipe and tabor, making merry outside the town's fabulous Art Deco Rex Cinema, with an impressively sizeable crowd lining the High Street to watch.
Berkhamsted's Grade II listed Rex Cinema, opened in 1938, narrowly avoided dereliction and redevelopment to be restored to former glories in 2004. But the morris dance itself is the true survivor - having enjoyed a resurgence in popularity around the 1950s (when this film was shot), around 800 British troupes currently ensure that this traditional dance is not allowed to die out.
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