Main entry:

Gray, Richard, 1947-

Title & Author:

Cinemas in Britain : one hundred years of cinema architecture / Richard Gray.

Publication:

London : Lund Humphries, 1996.

Description:

144 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-142) and index.
Introduction: Early Memories -- 1. The Moving Image: Invention and Pioneers -- 2. Films Find a Home: The Permanent Cinema -- 3. The Purpose-built Cinema and Early Conversions -- 4. The Cinematograph Act: The Cinema Building Grows Up -- 5. The Edwardian Luxury Cinema -- 6. The Early 1920s: The First 'Super Cinemas' -- 7. The American Movie Palace -- 8. Hollywood in the West End -- 9. 'You ain't heard nothing yet!' -- 10. The Movie Palace of the Late 1920s -- 11. Towards a New Style: The Work of Julian Leathart -- 12. George Coles: A Versatile Architect and His Great London Cinemas -- 13. Castles in the Air: 'Atmospherics' and Fantasy -- 14. The Granada Style -- 15. German Influence on British Cinema Design -- 16. Radical Changes in Cinema Architecture -- 17. Gaumont-British: Movie Palaces for the Nation -- 18. The Odeon Style -- 19. The ABC Circuit -- 20. The Independent 'Super Cinema' of the 1930s -- 21. Cinema Interior Designers -- 22. The Newsreel Cinema -- 23. Music for the Movies -- 24. The Expanding Screen, the Contracting Cinema -- 25. The Third Age of the Cinema -- Glossary of Architectural Terms -- Statutorily Listed Cinemas: A Future for the Past?
Dust jacket.

ISBN:

0853316856
9780853316855

Subject:

Motion picture theaters Great Britain History.
Architecture Great Britain History 20th century.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Motion picture theaters.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 116058
Call No.: ID:96-B296
Status: Available