UK Group 9.5

[Dominique De Bast]

I've just received the latest issue of the magazine. Sad news inside regarding the Club : the next issue of the magazine should be the very last and there should be no more Get Together day. Is that really what will happen, which would be a shame, or are members (or no members) willing to take over ?

[Maurice Leakey]

Dominique
Could you please elaborate on the details?

[Dominique De Bast]

Maurice, this is what I read :

[Chris Bird]

The problem is that it's a ton of work managing the membership payments, publishing the magazine and organising the fair, and Malcolm Cutmore wants to step back, with no one else coming forward to take over his tasks. David Wyatt and I had wondered about trying to continue the Pimlico shows at the Cinema Museum instead, but very few 95ers seem to make it there, and I don't think we would get nearly the numbers needed to make such Group 9.5 events viable there.

[Maurice Leakey]

Thanks to Dominique and Chris for the explanations.
Malcolm has done a very worthy job over the past few years and we should thank him. And Dave has sadly passed away.
I acquired many items from the late President, Roger Spence, who also passed away not long after his series of strokes.
I suppose that few people now collect 9.5mm, but we must also thank the few stalwart collectors who try to keep the gauge alive.

[Dominique De Bast]

Malcolm has done a very worthy job over the past few years and we should thank him.

I completely agree. Malcolm is not on Internet so a classical letter is the way to communicate with him.

[Maurice Leakey]

I have this evening had a long chat with Malcolm on the phone. I also read to him all the previous postings in this subject. He was sorry that things are unable to continue. He lives only 40 miles from me in the same town as my two daughters (Bridgwater) so I have occasionally visited him.

[Dominique De Bast]

Thank you, Maurice.

[Rodney Bourke]

Yes many members of Group 9.5 are in there 70's, 80's, 90's and maybe 100, and some were veterans from WW2.
Its always very encouraging to read there stories, because they are so enthusiastic about 9.5mm and Film.

Dominique I see you at all the Film Events wearing your 9.5mm shirt,
Group 9.5 needs New and Young blood to keep going like you,
your the man, to step up and help save this amazing Cine Club.

[Dominique De Bast]

Rodney, thanks for regarding me as young blood but I will be 55 next February ;-)

I would have loved to be more involved in the British 9.5 club if I had lived (not sure of the sequence of tenses) in London, but I don't even in the UK. Indeed, I try to attend the main events but that means I'm in the UK only a few days a year. Sadly, I could only attend two 9.5 projections at Pimlico when they were still organized, the costs of transportation make it much easier to go to Paris than to London, unfortunately. Hopefully, another saviour will emerge and allow a lot of 9.5 events to keep on happening in the UK.

[Cliff Perriam]

Dominique, I thought you were 40-ish! However, at 55 you are younger than most of the ninefivers - which is brilliant because you will hopefully be there in the future withyour enthusiasm and input.
Cliff

[Rodney Bourke]

Sadly this could be the 2nd Last Magazine for Group 9.5, and the Last Get-together at Chorleywood in October 2022, unless New younger Film Enthusiasts from UK, help keep this amazing Film Group going.