Edinburgh, Picture Theatre, interior. View of marble fireplace and wood panelling
SC 680397
Description Edinburgh, Picture Theatre, interior. View of marble fireplace and wood panelling
Date 1914
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 680397
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 64791
Scope and Content Detail of the fireplace in the Entrance Hall, the New Picture House, No 56 Princes Street, Edinburgh The New Picture House, designed by the architects, Atkinson & Alexander, opened in 1913 as a cinema designed for 'the top end of market'. This view of the entrance hall was photographed in 1914 by the architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. The oak-panelled hall was lined with white marble columns. The arrangement of chairs on either side of the fireplace suggests a country house setting, and the clock above, labelled 'Orchestra Special', gives the time of the cinema orchestra's performance. The design of the interior of the theatre was typical of the gradual 'gentrification' of cinemas that appeared in the years leading up to World War I. One of the cinema's main attractions was its large orchestra which accompanied the silent films. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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