Bruce Peter gave a talk on Art Deco Cinemas this evening as a precursor the silent film festival Hippfest which takes place at the Bo'ness Hippodrome next month - if you didn't catch it live, it's available to watch anytime on YouTube here:
youtu.be/-K1cziQ_Fj8
#childhoodcinema The Odeon, Clerk Street, Edinburgh, then and now.
frontage of a cinema with three doors and complicated architectural details meant to make it look Spanish
What was your #childhoodcinema ?
ABC Muirend, aka The Toledo (1933–2001). Designed to look like a Spanish courtyard. Fairly decrepit by the 1970s. Memories of watery Kia-Ora orange drink, "Pearl & Dean presents" and badly-pronounced ads for "Anderson's of Newton Meerns"
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What was your #childhoodcinema
Odeon, Aberdeen (mainly).
What was your #ChildhoodCinema
The Viking, Largs, Ayrshire. A 10 minute walk from my house and if you had a ticket you could stay all day. e.g. I went in halfway through the early afternoon showing of Help! and stayed for the teatime and mid evening shows too. Half a Viking longship outside.
What was your #childhoodcinema
ABC, Dundee
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The George in Portobello, Edinburgh. They let me and my pals in to see the then-X-rated 'Enter the Dragon' in 1973 – we were eight. Good times
Elgin Playhouse. Many an 80s classic in here (ET, Ghostbusters, Rambo) and bizarrely, due to a lack of any babysitter, the Life of Brian (try understanding that when you’re 7). The picture is how I remember it.
Glasgow Odeon on Renfield St. First picture house I ever went to. Saw first three Star Wars movies here (ROTJ on release day straight after school), Superman 1 and 2, and Ghostbusters too. The stuff of childhood myth making. #ChildhoodCinema
The Odeon on Clerk Street Edinburgh is where I saw Star Wars. Because I was only 5 and small it felt like it held roughly a million people. #childhoodcinema
Ayr Odeon
You can see on the right there is an emergency exit door on the metal stairs that we would get the one person that we’d clubbed together to get a ticket to open so we could all sneak in for free
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What was your #childhoodcinema?
Odeon, Clerk Street, Edinburgh
Been standing empty for almost quarter of a century.
What was your #childhoodcinema
The Playhouse in Perth. A proper Pearl & Dean special with slideshow adverts for local carpet companies and curry houses. They didn't let me have a Batman Returns standee as a kid ☹️
It's still there today and amazingly is now the only IMAX cinema in the area.
What was your #childhoodcinema
Kingsway, Galashiels
Upcoming @scottishcinemas.org Talk! Me & Gary Painter are giving our illustrated double-act talk about Glasgow cinema - both the old buildings & the city itself on screen - for @glasgowheritage.bsky.social on Feb 25.
Unfortunately sold out already but let them know if any demand for an encore!
Great to be in London yesterday at the Cinema Museum giving a @scottishcinemas.org update for the AGM of @CTheatreAssoc - the core of the collection there is from Aberdeen so lots of Scottish cinema artefacts on display!
Merriam-Webster Tweet: Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants. Cookie Monster's reply to the tweet: Me no wear pants.
This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received.
Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙
APPEAL: The Govan Stones needs more volunteers for our 2025 Season, which is shaping up to be our biggest and busiest since AD 900!
If you want to try your hand at pretty much anything we do at the museum, from working in the shop to tours, just email us at:
📨 info@thegovanstones.org.uk
Meanwhile in Dumfries, the former Regal/Odeon (most recently a single screen in the former balcony area, with a bingo hall in the former stalls) is rumoured to be reopening with an advert appearing for a cinema manager…
www.linkedin.com/company/tlc-...
Interesting to pass the long closed former New Victoria / Odeon on Clerk St in Edinburgh, with the hoarding door ajar it gives a peek into the foyer… it would be nice to see this place come back to life, so hopefully a sign long delayed works are moving forward again…?
Oops pics got mixed up - this is the former Theatre Royal.
Some cinemas & theatres of Perth.
Playhouse Cinema
Former Kings
Perth Theatre
Former Theatre Royal
More here:
www.scottishcinemas.org.uk/scotland/per...
And if you’re interested in buying it, the former Kings is up for sale…
t.co/Uszxcmd0Na
It seems plans are finally afoot to re-open the former Lyceum Cinema on Govan Road in Glasgow. Designed by McNair and Elder in a stunning Streamlined Moderne style, it was built in 1938.
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#glasgow #govan #artdeco #architecture #artdecoarchitecture #lyceum #lyceumhub #cinema #glasgowcinema
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fotos_by_findlay/53551403259
Former Odeon/Paramount Cinema, Renfield Street, Glasgow
#Glasgow #Cinema #Odeon #Paramount #Photography #Flickr #DeadCinema #OfficeDevelopment
The Odeon Cinema on Renfield St, 1955.
It was designed by Verity & Beverly for the Paramount Corporation and opened on 31 Dec 1934. Lavishly decorated, it could accommodate 2,800, and it attracted the largest audiences for a Paramount cinema outside the USA.
📷 Glasgow Museums
#glasgow
Images courtesy of Jim Duncan; full set available to see here:
www.scottishcinemas.org.uk/scotland/ham...
Thank you for the serotonin boost. I'm suddenly remembering a 7 year old me going to see Return of the Jedi with my older brother at the old Odeon cinema in Hamilton, Scotland (sadly demolished for a carpark back in 1999).
Episode 2
Episode 1
How to (re)Open a Cinema podcast. NOw available where you get your podcasts
There are many fine podcasts about films but very few about cinemas themselves.
How to (Re)Open a Cinema is about the ongoing community efforts to resurrect a derelict "supercinema" in Prestwick, Scotland.
Find it where you get your podcasts or shows.acast.com/how-to-reopen-a-cinema
Lightspeed tour through the (often fiery) history & design of Scottish & #Glasgow ~ with a Southside emphasis ~ #cinemas this evening hosted by #PollokshieldsHeritage from Gary Painter @scottishcinemas.org after great feature in the papers on Sunday (which we ofc bought📰📽️🤓) bsky.app/profile/scot...
As well as a huge swathe of central #Glasgow Southside cinemas ~ #ArtDeco, earlier & later styles ~ @scottishcinemas.org gave a much longer look back at ABC / Regal on Sauchiehall St, demolition finishing this week 😢 #RetrofitFirst www.scottishcinemas.org.uk/glasgow/abcr... bsky.app/profile/bric...
