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Published: 4 December 2008

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OUR big-hearted friends at the Everyman cinema are gearing up to help the New Journal Christmas Hamper Fund with a special one-off showing of the 1950s film Scrooge, starring Alistair Sim.
The Everyman group is in the midst of revamping the Screen on the Hill, to be renamed the Everyman Belsize Park, and are planning to show the film in aid of our charity at 4pm on Sunday, December 21 – we’ll let you know ticket details as soon as they are confirmed.
American author Les Standiford will be presenting the film. He wrote The Man Who Invented Christmas – the story of how Charles Dickens came to write A Christmas Carol.
To mark the cinema’s opening, Belsize Park brothers Ben and Gaby Turner of Fullwell 73 Productions have been making a short film featuring well-known local faces. The team dressed up publican Terry Tidey of the Washington pub as Charlie Chaplin (pictured) and persuaded the newsagent in Belsize Village to become the Joker from Batman.
Director Ben Turner said: “We wanted a selection of people in the area who everyone knows – Shiraz from the Late Night Extra shop has been a friend to us since we were kids, and every one knows Terry from the Wash.” Others include a Haverstock Hill hairdresser as Marilyn Monroe and Swiss Cottage flower-sellers as cowboys and indians.
The film will be shown before features at the new-look cinema when it opens in two weeks’ time.
For more information see www.belsizepark lauch.info

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