formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
From 19 April 2019, Picturehouse and Refuge announce the start of a three year campaign to raise funds and awareness of domestic abuse; an issue which affects one woman in four in her life and around 800,000 children every year. … Continued
For the 9:20 p.m. movie, Jesse Locascio threaded film through the projector. This was after he had sprayed compressed air on the sprockets and rollers, blowing out dust that could show up as black dots on the screen. Source: How … Continued
Jon Bauckham and Frank Gray explore Regent Street Cinema, where motion pictures were first screened to a paying audience in Britain Source: BBC History Magazine Explores Regent Street Cinema and the Birth of British Cinema – History Extra
THE lead public body set up to safeguard Scotland’s historic environment has hit out at potential plans to bulldoze the O2 ABC. Historic Environment Scotland were consulted by Glasgow City Council on plans to flatten the C-listed building on Sauchiehall … Continued
Cinema chain HOYTS is to equip four auditoriums in Melbourne and Sydney with over 200 D-BOX motion seats. With installations in more than 40 countries, D-BOX Technologies’ motion seats immerse audiences in the storyline by perfectly synchronising movement with the … Continued
WILLIAM Herbert was once Newcastle’s original picture show man.The former American pioneered bringing moving pictures permanently to Newcastle, first with silent flicks from 1907 and then “talkies”. In his heyday, the canny entrepreneur (1867-1947) operated not one, but three profitable … Continued