Yorkshire Post

When the boom of the talkies sounded the death knell for the cine-variety movement (a mix of films with piano accompaniment and live theatre shows) it became full-time cinema, but its most recent history has been marred by missed opportunities. … Continued

VANDALS smashed a number of windows at an independent cinema in a Yorkshire village overnight.A total of eight windows in the front doors at the Rex Cinema on Coronation Street, Elland, near Halifax, were broken in the incident. Source: Windows … Continued

Christoph Warrack believes that in the future multiplex cinemas will be sidelined by the growth of community film clubs with a social purpose. Sheena Hastings reports. Source: Open cinema without borders – Yorkshire Post

In an era when we can all access our favourite movies on any number of personal electronic devices at the drop of a hat, going to the cinema may seem like a bit of an old-fashioned pastime. However, some of … Continued

By February 1932 the cinema industry in Leeds was noted to “have grown from a dubious kind of entertainment presented shakily in tumbledown barns to a form of entertainment so vast that often the largest and most imposing of a … Continued