19 JANUARY 1974, Page 5

Film fun

Sir: I am most distressed to have upset Clive Gammon by saying that I nearly fell out of my seat laughing at parts of Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? I'll make a New Year resolution to say in future that amovie

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"amus me inordinately" (even if I do nearly fall out of my seat laughing). As for the date of the New York blackout, I had our library staff working overtime on that, but (probably being as plastic as the rest of us) they couldn't turn it up.

David Quinlan 247 Tottenham Court Road, wi