Northumberland's only full time independent cinema is set to celebrate a big anniversary next month.
The Forum Cinema on Hexham's Market Place opened to the public on Monday August 23 under the management of Tom Scott from the Hexham Entertainment Company. Tickets cost just one shilling (five pence in today's money) and the residents were treated to a screening of George Formby's Keep Your Seats, Please.
And to mark the occasion, there's a range of events and activities planned, including 85p tickets and classic screenings. Those special 85p screenings are both of films from the year the Forum opened, 1937, with the original A Star is Born the cinema's anniversary, August 23, and Walt Disney's first feature length animation A Star Is Born on August 27.
