Advertisment fo the Art Cinema, Lord Street, Fleetwood

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iBase ID

237201

Reference identifier

NFL20120906004

Title

Advertisment fo the Art Cinema, Lord Street, Fleetwood

Place

Fleetwood

General notes

The advertisment cites the film 'the Gaunt Stranger' starring Sonny Hale and Wilfrid Lawson. the film was released in November 1938.

"The Empire Theatre & Hippodrome was opened in mid-August 1909. It was designed by architect Albert Winstanley, and boasted to be the first theatre to have a white marble facade. From around 1913, it was listed as operating as a cinema. In early-1915, it was closed for reconstruction, when the seating capacity in the gallery was enlarged, and the total seating capacity increased to 900. It re-opened in June 1915 as the Art Pictures.

In 1923, the building was demolished to build a new Art Pictures, again designed by Albert Winstanley. The new cinema now had a single circle seating 340, with seating in the stalls for 668 and two boxes on each side of the 30 feet wide proscenium. There was also a cafe for the convenience of patrons. By 1937, it was operated by the Blackpool Tower Co. Ltd.

By 1944, it had been re-named Art Cinema, and it was closed in the late-1950s. It was demolished in 1960 and in 2014 an Iceland supermarkets operates on the site."

From http://cinematreasures.org/ - 28/11/2014

Medium

Poster

Colour

Monochrome

Original image size

13.5 x 10.3

Year of image

1938

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Locator

Cinemas 3598 M

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