[Photo]George Harrell's photographs of the film stars of the fifty's and sixties adorned the walls of the cinemas of my youth. Impossibly glamorous images in glorious rich black and white exhibition sized prints. I must have been influenced by these pictures, as I can just remember some fifty or so years ago standing in the foyer of The Royal or The Essoldo or The Empire cinemas or one of the other eight or so local picture places, wondering why the pictures I took with my Dads Agfa isolette 120 camera, then developing the film in a breakfast dish under the stairs and contact printing on a home made plywood light box, but some how some! of my snaps lacked the impact of those Hollywood prints.
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