Cinemas in Britain: 100 Years of Cinema Architecture
Richard Gray
(1996)
Hardcover - 144 pages
Lund Humphries
ISBN: 0853316856
Synopsis by publisher:
The cinema in Britain celebrated its 100th birthday in 1996. This fascinating study looks at the history of the cinema building in Britain, from its nineteenth-century origins right up to the present day.
The first purpose-built cinemas were little more than basic rectangular rooms. However, as the popularity of film-going grew in the 1920s and 1930s, the buildings became more complex and theatrical in atmosphere. These movie palaces could seat as many as 4000 people and often featured fantasy interiors, such as Egyptian temples and Gothic cathedrals. In the present day we have returned to the rectangular room, but now in the form of 'multiplex' screen cinemas.
Beautifully illustrated, this book not only provides a detailed architectural history of the cinema, but also evokes the magic of movie-going.
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