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DUKE BONUS NIGHT – Cinedelphia Warm-Up

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Cinedelphia

Monday 4th April – PimpShuei – Show stars at 7PM Ends around 8PM 

This April Alex is heading all the way to Philadelphia, USA to represent The Duke at the Cinedelphia Film Festival, a massive 2-week extravaganza of incredible films, offbeat TV and general video madness.  We’ve been invited to take part and we’ll be unleashing a best of our Found Footage Show on Saturday night right in the heart of Philadelphia.

To warm up for this we’re doing a bonus Duke night at one of our favourite London bars, the one and only PimpShuei. Come along and join us as we run through the show we’re put together for Philadelphia and unleash on you the best of our Found Footage finds! We really want to see how it all plays with a crowd so please do come along and check out the show, plus we might throw in a few extra surprises along the way.

Also as Evrim can’t make our 100th Duke Night he’ll be here this time so come and join us as we belatedly celebrate 100 nights of film chaos with him at our 100.5 night!

Shows starts at 7PM and should run about 45-Minutes, stick around after the show for drinks and fun. FREE ENTRY as always!

William Castle 78RPM Lobby Spots!

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Thanks to our ever vigilant ebay searches we were recently able to pick up these two very rare original 78RPM lobby spots for two classic horror films from director William Castle. Lobby spots are an interesting unknown item of cinema history, being records designed to be played inside the cinema itself to promote upcoming releases. They were never released to the public and were only designed with a shelf life of a few weeks or months, if used at all, then normally thrown out once the film had been and gone, that any survive at all is down to cinema staff taking them home once the films run had finished.

We got hold of these from the USA and have recently had them professional transferred to digital by the great Shaw Sounds, who manged to do an incredible job with two very battered 78s that are now well over 50-years old. So presented below are these two rare finds, the first for The Tingler from 1959 which features narration from the film’s star: Vincent Price and the second 13 Ghosts from 1960.

Both of these records are one sided and the backs are very interesting, featuring a diamond style pattern on them both.WilliamCastle78s2

Look for more features on super rare 45RPM lobby spots from our collection later in the year, we’ve got some fascinating UK ones we need to get digitised!

The 100th Duke Night Info!

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We’re celebrating the 100th Duke Night with our Early April Fools’ Special and we want you to come and join us!

The 100th night couldn’t fall on a more appropriate evening as our Early April Fools’ special is our annual salute to the worst that cinema has to offer. Come and join us for this momentous Duke event as we guide you through our most terrible finds of the last 12-months. On the night we’ll have the most atrocious trailers we’ve found over the last year, a shockingly bad selection of found footage VHS weirdness we picked up in Austin, Texas, an awful quiz with prizes you won’t want to win. Plus we’ll be showing a special mystery terrible feature film on the night! You’ll have to be there to find out what it is, all we’ll say is that it’ll be bad, but hopefully we’ll all have a blast watching it together.

Also we’ll be closing the show with the mysterious Birthday Party VHS tape that we didn’t get to play back in January, it’s a birthday party event filmed in a video shop and unseen for decades. We’ll be watching it the first time on the night with you, so anything could happen on screen!

Come and help us celebrate 100 Duke Nights!

WEDNESDAY 30th March
Doors 7PM Films Start 8PM Show Ends 11PM
FREE ENTRY ALL NIGHT – JUST TURN UP!