Robert Pope, then aged seven, remembered screaming and shouting in the Glen Cinema in Paisley, where around 600 children watched a matinee on Hogmanay afternoon in 1929, but that was normal for a Western, he thought.
But as Pope sunk down into his seat waiting for the film to come back on, one of Scotland’s worst human tragedies started to unfold after a smouldering reel of nitrocellulose film billowed smoke into the packed auditorium.
Source: Survivor of cinema tragedy aged 99 remembers darkest day at Scottish matinee | The Scotsman