By the mid-1970s, the Continentale cinema had stopped showing French films. BBC television had started showing them from the mid-1950s. Jean Renoir’s ‘French Can Can’ was shown on the single-channel BBC almost as soon as it was released in 1955. Who would show French films to a Brighton audience in Brighton?
The cinema at 64 North Street would. Originally opened in 1911 as the Bijou Electric Empire, the tiny 400-seater cinema at the heart of Brighton’s shopping area evolved over the years.
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