Appendix 2
PERSONAL APPEARANCES
I was recently in my local history library reviewing
the press stories for 1952 and 1953, to review the years when
the Queen came to the throne and how our local community celebrated
those events.
I came across a story that surprised me. In
1951 Sir Carol Reed (director of The Third Man) made a
film called Outcast of the Islands, based on a story by
Joseph Conrad and starring an actress Sir Carol Reed had discovered,
Kerima. In 1952 the St. Helens Savoy screened the film and Kerima
made a personal appearance at one of the screenings, a story that
made all the local press, in a town not noted as being a flagship.
Last year I attended a screening of 28 Days Later at the
Odeon in Liverpool at which director Danny Baker attended and
did a question-and-answer session with the audience. It made me
wonder why personal appearances in the regions by people connected
with a British film are so rare, when it can generate so much
publicity and long-term goodwill.
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