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Cinemas in Britain : one hundred years of cinema architecture

Title
Cinemas in Britain : one hundred years of cinema architecture / Richard Gray.
Author
Gray, Richard, 1947-
Publication
London : Lund Humphries : Produced in collaboration with the Cinema Theatre Association, 1996.

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Additional Authors
Cinema Theatre Association.
Description
144 pages : illustrations (some color), plans; 25 x 27 cm
Summary
This study looks at the history of the cinema in Britain, from its 19th century origins up to the present day, providing a detailed architectural history, and also evoking the magic of movie-going.
Alternative Title
One hundred years of cinema architecture
Subject
  • Motion picture theaters > Great Britain > History
  • Theater architecture > Great Britain
  • Motion picture theaters
  • Theater architecture
  • Motion picture theaters > Great Britain
  • Great Britain
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Books.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-142) and index.
Credits (note)
  • Produced in collaboration with the Cinema Theatre Association.
Contents
Introduction -- The moving image: invention and pioneers -- Films find a home: the permanent cinema -- The purpose built cinema and early conversions -- The Cinematograph Act: the cinema building grows up -- The Edwardian luxury cinema -- The early 1920s: the first "super cinemas" -- The American movie palace -- Hollywood in the West End -- "You ain't heard nothing yet!" -- The movie palace of the late 1920s -- Towards a new style: the work of Julian Leathart -- George Coles: a versatile architect and his great London cinemas -- Castles in the air: "atmospherics" and fantasy -- The Granada style -- German influences on British cinema design -- Radical changes in cinema architecture -- Gaumont-British: movie palaces for the nation -- The Odeon style -- ABC circuit -- The independent "super cinema" of the 1930s -- Cinema interior designers -- The newsreel cinema -- Music for the movies -- The expanding screen, the contracting cinema -- The third age of cinema
ISBN
  • 0853316856
  • 9780853316855
OCLC
  • 35735775
  • ocm35735775
  • SCSB-2100174
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library