Stories from the Electric Cinema Club

The official signed agreement between the Electric Cinema Club and Deanville Investments who owned the Imperial

The Electric Cinema Club is the only survivor of a group of independent, specialist cinemas which sprang up in...

Happy Birthday to the Electric Cinema, seventy years old next Friday – which makes it the longest-serving purpose-built cinema...

Freebie listings mag with article on London's independent cinema scene, marking the week the Electric Cinema Club finally closed it's doors for good in October 1983.

Dave Hucker's History Part 2: The Electric and World War 1.

You didn’t need to be of a nervous disposition to think the projection box at the Electric could be a spooky place...

Ed Vulliamy on the long-loved, historically important cinema that has seen as much drama off screen as on....

Co-founder of the club.

Copy of the original declaration of intent by John McWilliams, Deanne Taylor and Roger Cross having signed an agreement with the Imperial in October 1969 to programme late-night films.

Many things have been said about the Electric, some of them repeatable. Unfortunately, only those in print have...

Handout for the 1983 Save the Electric Cinema Club, with plans to run it as a co--op, including a running costs breakdown. Unfortunately the campaign failed.

Dave Hucker's History Part 1: Before the Electric.

Dave Hucker's History Part 3: From the Edwardian to the Avant-Garde

Jim Nelson's notes to accompany an exhibition he held at Kensington Library on the history of the cinema. Oct 1984

A memoir by Deanne Taylor, co-founder of the Electric Cinema Club