Posted in Cinemas on December 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Odeon Cinema, Parsons Hill, Woolwich, London, October 1937. Reference no: BB87/03661. Copyright English Heritage. NMR.
The National Monuments Record, the public archive of English Heritage, holds a wide range of collections covering the built and archaeological landscape from the prehistoric period to the cold war. Photographs form the largest part of [...]
Posted in Cinemas, Museums on November 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Model of the Palaceum cinema, from www.twickenham-museum.org.uk
Twickenham Museum is a model example of a small museum which has used its website to display more materials and bzackground texts on local history than it can within the small space of its actual building. The site has an excellent section on the cinemas of Twickenham, from 1911 [...]
Posted in Cinemas on October 23, 2007 | No Comments »
La Charette, officially deemed the smallest cinema in Wales, has closed after fifty years, the BBC reported yesterday. The 23-seat cinema was built by electrician Gwyn Phillips and housed in an old railway carriage in his back garden in Gorseinon, near Swansea. Although a club has maintained the cinema since his death in [...]
Posted in Cinemas on October 19, 2007 | No Comments »
As the debate on the long-term preservation of our national screen heritage continues to focus primarily on the moving images themselves, it’s worth highlighting two major cinema restoration projects that are taking place in Britain at the moment. If you know of any more, do let us know.
Each of these concerns very different examples [...]
Posted in Cinemas, Museums on October 9, 2007 | No Comments »
Many cinemas faced closure and demolition in the 1960s and 1970s, among them the Broadway cinema in Bristol, which closed its doors in 1972. As we’ve already seen in Cinemas in Museums, some cinemas have been painstakingly re-located within museums but generally buildings are not the easiest objects to move. The [...]
Posted in Cinemas, Museums on September 21, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Among the kinds of objects listed in on our survey of moving image and screen-related artefacts in UK collections are cinemas. Are there any actual cinemas as exhibits in museums? We know of two. The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum in Cultra, Co. Down, recently acquired a 1920s cinema and moved it brick by brick [...]
