In a mood of (cautious) celebration I've been watching the dvd which comes with They thought it was a marvel by T de Vries and Ati Mul. All the films are interesting of course but I most loved Noah's Ark...much of it made in the bath at the Melbourne -Cooper family home in Alma Road as well as in basement of the first Alpha cinema. What is interesting is not just the pioneering technical skill but the tender creation of that animated imaginative world for an audience of children which we all now know so well - very impressive rain, cute animals moving cutely, lots of little jokes such as the bossy elephants being more competent than Noah at running a boat, a lovably happy ending. You'll have to buy the book to watch it..but go to the Bioscope site for a chance to view the famous Dream of Toyland, with its very naughty white bear...
Melbourne-Cooper seems to have been the very first pioneering cinematographer who saw that animated film would be of enormous significance for audiences of children...yet another reason to be glad the site is rescued for the kind of cinema the Alpha will be....
More thanks from Jas.Hannaway on allaboutstalbans site. At some point we shd. thank him. This country is/was full of cinemas whose sad histories read 'bingo;demolition;supermarket'...just 5 minutes Googling will prove that...
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