Edinburgh, Picture Theatre, interior. Unidentified view.
BL 22541/5
Description Edinburgh, Picture Theatre, interior. Unidentified view.
Date 1914
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 22541/5
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Air-Conditioning System, the New Picture House, No 56 Princes Street, Edinburgh The New Picture House, Princes Street, designed by the architects, Atkinson & Alexander, opened in 1913 as an elaborate cinema complex. The interior and some of its 'new' features were photographed in 1914 by the photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. This photograph shows part of the cinema's air-conditioning system, one of the new technologies of the time. The system drew air from the auditorium over of a series of parallel 'fins' where the impurities could be filtered out. The auditorium of the New Picture House could seat up to 1,000 patrons, many of whom smoked. One of its main attractions was its air-conditioning system which guaranteed a 'change of air twelve times an hour'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
External Reference Box 64
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