6016 x 4016 px | 50,9 x 34 cm | 20,1 x 13,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
13 gennaio 2018
Ubicazione:
73 Brudenell Rd, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6 1JD, England, Great Britain,
Altre informazioni:
Hyde Park Picture House was designed by architects Thomas Winn & Sons and built in 1914.The front elevation is topped by a Dutch gable with ball finials and features four ionic columns made from white Burmantofts Marmo. Glazed terracotta dressings and a frieze with moulded letters spelling out "Hyde Park Picture House" appear at the entrance and contrast with the red brick, which makes up the majority of the building. The cinema opened shortly after the start of World War I, on 7 November 1914. An advertisement in the Yorkshire Evening Post at the time of the opening, branded Hyde Park Picture House the "cosiest in Leeds". Their Only Son, billed as a "patriotic drama", was the first film shown at the venue, while other morale-boosting releases, such as An Englishman's Home, ] and newsreels delivering reports from the frontlines to families back home, made up the majority of the Picture House's programme during the Great War. Following the advent of "talkies" in the 1920s, the cinema was converted for sound. Little is known about the history of the cinema from its initial years to the 1980s. In 1959, to promote the showing of The Big Hunt, a live elephant appeared outside the cinema. At some point after this, the Picture House briefly closed and became a bingo hall before reopening as a cinema again roughly two years later. In 1984, the private charitable company 'Friends of Hyde Park Picture House' was set up to support the cinema and help preserve it as "an important part of our cinema and cultural heritage as well as ensuring it is maintained as an available public asset to the audiences of Hyde Park, Leeds, Yorkshire and the UK". Three years later, in 1987, the Leeds International Film Festival began at the venue. When the Picture House was threatened with closure in 1989, Leeds City Council stepped in to save it, creating an independent company within the Council, the Grand Theatre and Opera House Limited, to preserve the cinema.
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