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Dublin Metro Cine & Camera Club
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I joined a club called the Pius X Camera Club in early 1960s. It met in the church hall attached to Pius X church in Terenure. I was the youngest member at maybe 11 or 12 years old. After a short while some members left Pius and formed the Metro Cine and Camera Club. There were a lot of debates about the name!. it met in the church hall attached to Francis Street church, with the sound of tap dancing children in the next room.
A man called John Kelly, who had a religious picture business in Terenure built, dark rooms.
I stopped attending the club after a year of two, but not before making a film in which i played a delinquent teenager rescued by football. Mostly shot by John from a plywood box fixed to the roof of his Austin Cambridge. Does anyone remember the club, or any of the people involved?
:lol:
Metro Eamon wrote:
I joined a club called the Pius X Camera Club in early 1960s. It met in the church hall attached to Pius X church in Terenure. I was the youngest member at maybe 11 or 12 years old. After a short while some members left Pius and formed the Metro Cine and Camera Club. There were a lot of debates about the name!. it met in the church hall attached to Francis Street church, with the sound of tap dancing children in the next room.
A man called John Kelly, who had a religious picture business in Terenure built, dark rooms.
I stopped attending the club after a year of two, but not before making a film in which i played a delinquent teenager rescued by football. Mostly shot by John from a plywood box fixed to the roof of his Austin Cambridge. Does anyone remember the club, or any of the people involved?
:lol:
Interesting. Maybe some of the people involved with your club later joined the Dublin Camera Club http://www.dublincameraclub.ie/ would be worth checking out.
Rob
I would suggest calling into John or Louise Gunn in Gunns Camera Shop on Wexford Street and having a chat with them. If they don’t know themselves I bet they could put you in touch with someone that will know.
Metro Eamon wrote:
I joined a club called the Pius X Camera Club in early 1960s. It met in the church hall attached to Pius X church in Terenure. I was the youngest member at maybe 11 or 12 years old. After a short while some members left Pius and formed the Metro Cine and Camera Club. There were a lot of debates about the name!. it met in the church hall attached to Francis Street church, with the sound of tap dancing children in the next room.
A man called John Kelly, who had a religious picture business in Terenure built, dark rooms.
I stopped attending the club after a year of two, but not before making a film in which i played a delinquent teenager rescued by football. Mostly shot by John from a plywood box fixed to the roof of his Austin Cambridge. Does anyone remember the club, or any of the people involved?
:lol:
Any update on this Eamon? Did you find out any info?
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