Cannon Cinemas
Foyer /
Introduction
“Virgin Students, Sex Hunter Erotics and
Link to this page :
www.cannon.org.uk/cannoncinemas.htm
Globus-Golan admiring their 1982 purchase, the Classic
cinema chain.
Complete with their no-smoking ban (first chain to do this
I believe).
Classic’s Barry Jenkins also pictured far left, who went on
to work with
The Cannon Group Inc and MGM Cinemas.
One of the logos used by the Cannon
Group in 1982 when they bought the Classic
cinema chain from Lew Grade's
Associated Communications Corporation and before
the name“Cannon Cinemas” 3 years
later, when Cannon bought
Thorn-EMI Screen Entertainment
(TESE) with their ABC cinema chain from Alan Bond.
I
Do you know Cannon Cinemas? ~They won't
allow guide dogs into their cinemas
and I wrote to them and they said "No, we don't allow guide dogs into our
cinemas
because our sound system is now so good
it might damage the ears of the dog.".
-I remember that story as it was on the
national news.
Cannon Cinemas were number 1 in the
(sale list here (many missing that had been closed or sold off)).
I’ve managed to collect numerous photos of
some of their cinemas and other stuff.
If you have any photos or advertising
literature please let me know.
I’d also like one of those old Cannon
cinema signs too. You never know!
Foyer, Southend Cannon
(more pictures in the Cinema Gallery)
Mars Bar, anyone?
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Thanks to Philip Turner for his permission to use
parts of Cannon Cinemas: An Outline History.
That book (and entire collection)
is still available here
It's highly recommended to Cannon fans
wishing to get a better idea
of Cannon's rise in the UK and of course
an invaluable insight into the
wider UK cinema history.
Got a better image, information or
something I’m missing or I have wrong?
Like to add something? 
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use only and has no
connection whatsoever with The Cannon Group, Inc.