Cinemas in Britain : one hundred years of cinema architecture /
Gray, Richard,1947-
Cinema Theatre Association.
London : Lund Humphries,
1996.
A comprehensive examination of the history of cinema building in Britain, from its Nineteenth-century origins right up to the present day.  Contains over 100 illustrations, including many of those buildings which are now lost.
Produced in collaboration with the Cinema Theatre Association.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-142) and index.
Introduction - The moving image: invention and pioneers - Films find a home: the permanent cinema - The purpose built cinema and early conversions - The Cinematograph Act: the cinema building grows up - The Edwardian luxury cinema - The early 1920s: the first "super cinemas" - The American movie palace - Hollywood in the West End - "You ain't heard nothing yet!" - The movie palace of the late 1920s - Towards a new style: the work of Julian Leathart - George Coles: a versatile architect and his great London cinemas - Castles in the air: "atmospherics" and fantasy - The Granada style - German influences on British cinema design - Radical changes in cinema architecture - Gaumont-British: movie palaces for the nation - The Odeon style - ABC circuit - The independent "super cinema" of the 1930s - Cinema interior designers - The newsreel cinema - Music for the movies - The expanding screen, the contracting cinema - The third age of cinema
A comprehensive examination of the history of cinema building in Britain, from its Nineteenth-century origins right up to the present day.  Contains over 100 illustrations, including many of those buildings which are now lost.
Motion picture theaters
Theater architecture