Edinburgh, Picture Theatre, interior. View of corridor with stairs.

Description Edinburgh, Picture Theatre, interior. View of corridor with stairs.

Date 1914

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number SC 680425

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 22541/11

Scope and Content Entrance Hall, the New Picture House, No 56 Princes Street, Edinburgh The New Picture House, owned by Provincial Cinematographic Theatres, opened in 1913 as a luxury cinema in Princes Street. The interior, an elaborate complex on several floors, was photographed in 1914 by the photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. The entrance hall, lined with oak panelling, had a coffered ceiling and white marble columns. The chairs, the potted plants and the flowers above the marble fireplace may have been carefully positioned by Lemere to improve the composition of the picture. Provincial Cinematographic Theatres, one of the new cinema 'chains' that emerged before World War I, had a policy of offering the public 'a refined form of entertainment, both interesting and instructive and entirely devoid of anything vulgar'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Box 64

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/680425

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap