Under the silver screen

IF you are to believe the memories in Here's Looking at You, Kid, the new anthology of childhood film memories, the film going…

IF you are to believe the memories in Here's Looking at You, Kid, the new anthology of childhood film memories, the film going audience in the 1950s and 1960s was a flea bitten lot. By their own admission Stephanie McBride and Roddy Flynn bullied nearly 100 prominent people into recounting their first memories of cinema going. The book was published on Tuesday night and despite the miserable weather there was a good turn out in the IFC in Temple Bar for its presentation by Irish Times film buff Michael Dwyer. Few of the book's contributors turned up but those who braved the elements included film censor Sheamus Smith, Agnes Bernelle and Frank Feeley, who seems to be at nearly as many social functions these days as when he was city manager.