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Ep 4: The Ritz, Belfast - 1960s Pop Invasion, The Beatles and the Biblical Flood
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In the fourth episode of the Wonder Cinema podcast, we look at how the Ritz responded to the explosion of youth culture in the 1960s and hosted some of the world's biggest musical acts.
As audiences continued to fall in the 1960s, cinema became more youth-oriented with The Young Ones, featuring Cliff Richard, breaking box-office records in 1962. In the following year, the Ritz changed to the ABC, a more functional name linking it to the chain which had operated the cinema since 1938. This decade also saw the cafe rebranded as The Rotunda, after a rotating refrigerated counter. Many of the stars who arrived in the 1960s came from the world of music rather than film, with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones among those who performed at the ABC. But the decade ended with the outbreak of the Troubles and a biblical flood that destroyed the once-almighty cinema organ.
Links:
NI Digital Film Archive - Rolling Stones Mania
ITN - The Beatles at Belfast Ritz for press gathering
NMNI - A view of the Ritz (ABC) on Great Victoria Street
Written and presented by Dr Sam Manning and Brian Henry Martin
Music by Score Draw Music
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Capíttulos
1. Ep 4: The Ritz, Belfast - 1960s Pop Invasion, The Beatles and the Biblical Flood (00:00:00)
2. How did young audiences and youth culture change cinema in the 1960s? (00:00:54)
3. Which pop star broke the box-office record in 1962? (00:02:03)
4. Why change the name of the Ritz cinema to the ABC? (00:02:50)
5. Is the arrival of The Beatles the biggest night in the history of the cinema? (00:06:00)
6. Where is the entrance to the cinema today? (00:11:30)
7. Did John Lennon make a film inside the cinema? (00:13:41)
8. What happened when The Rolling Stones played the cinema? (00:14:54)
9. The folk hero goes electric in 1966, Bob Dylan in the ABC. (00:18:53)
10. How pop music and big musicals dominated the decade. (00:20:28)
11. What happened to the Ritz Cafe in the 1960s? (00:23:51)
12. The beginning of the Troubles and a summer of violence in August 1969. (00:25:27)
13. The day the organ music died due to a biblical flood. (00:27:08)
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