ABRACADABRA abracadrabra
To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Credits: [1] The Moving Image Archive [2] Abracadabra – cover by Julka Rewizor
Tag: cinemas
TENSE – TIMELY – TREMENDOUS
An advertisement for ‘The Birth of A Nation‘ by D. W. Griffiths, which was being shown at the King’s Cinema, South Methven Street, Perth in February 1918. [Please note that … Continue reading TENSE – TIMELY – TREMENDOUS
PEARL & DEAN
Folk of a certain age, of whom I am one, will no doubt remember PEARL & DEAN adverts at the local cinema. This hole ousia post shares a timeline of … Continue reading PEARL & DEAN
Had spent the money on sweets and visiting picture-houses
Sunday Post, 13th June 1920
ABRACADABRA
To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Credits: [1] The Moving Image Archive [2] Abracadabra – cover by Julka Rewizor
Kilbirnie Radio Cinema Bingo Hall
This stylish cinema was built in 1937 and restored the next millennium: BINGO:To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Image credits: CANMORE Archive Music … Continue reading Kilbirnie Radio Cinema Bingo Hall
Kinema takes the biscuit
The cine backdrop to this short film is one of the earliest taken in Scotland. It was recorded in 1897 by Peter Feathers, 6 Castle Street Dundee, and records a … Continue reading Kinema takes the biscuit
‘like watching a movie that can never be paused’
This is from The Heart of Things [An Anthology of Memory and Lament] by Richard Holloway.