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LOST CINEMAS WORDS: LOUISE COLE IMAGES: VAD FALCONE

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<ul><li>Shuttered … silent … </li></ul><ul><li>Standing forgotten … </li></ul><ul><li>Where is the stardust now? </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Plush carpets … </li></ul><ul><li>The clean uniforms of the usherettes … </li></ul><ul><li>Children’s clubs … queues … </li></ul><ul><li>Jean Harlow … Mickey Mouse … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>This is the wonder cinema … </li></ul><ul><li>Modern … functional … the future … </li></ul><ul><li>The teenagers pop their gum. </li></ul>

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<ul><li>He’ll load the film into the projector … </li></ul><ul><li>One more time … </li></ul><ul><li>He is Mr Entertainment … </li></ul><ul><li>The man who changes the reels … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Come to watch the news … </li></ul><ul><li>Take in a classic before you catch </li></ul><ul><li>The last train home … </li></ul><ul><li>Dreamland … </li></ul><ul><li>Glamour … wonder … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>The moving picture! </li></ul><ul><li>Where people just </li></ul><ul><li>like you … </li></ul><ul><li>yes, like you, sir … </li></ul><ul><li>can see shadows </li></ul><ul><li>of themselves </li></ul><ul><li>in shades of grey … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>The 1920s … prosperity … </li></ul><ul><li>The talkies … </li></ul><ul><li>Three shows nightly … </li></ul><ul><li>Come to the restaurant, the ballroom … </li></ul><ul><li>Make a day of it … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Of course the people came. </li></ul><ul><li>Flocked to the new palaces of light … </li></ul><ul><li>Crushed in the plush seats </li></ul><ul><li>To see Clark Gable , Greta Garbo , </li></ul><ul><li>The Marx Brothers … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Seats at popular prices … </li></ul><ul><li>Come to the Tower … </li></ul><ul><li>See Bette Davis s u f f e r … </li></ul><ul><li>Watch Ruby Keeler d a n c e … </li></ul><ul><li>Shoot with the Cisco Kid … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>The man who built the Abbey </li></ul><ul><li>Gave us </li></ul><ul><li>Five exits … </li></ul><ul><li>Fifteen ventilators … </li></ul><ul><li>An orchestral balcony … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>From the fleapit </li></ul><ul><li>with jam jar prices … </li></ul><ul><li>To the plush </li></ul><ul><li>1,000 seater … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>They are warehouses, supermarkets, </li></ul><ul><li>Garages, offices, churches, nightclubs, </li></ul><ul><li>Flats, and derelict spaces … </li></ul><ul><li>They are all around you … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>You drive past them each day … </li></ul><ul><li>Calling to you … </li></ul><ul><li>Shadows of those days past … </li></ul><ul><li>Of MGM, Paramount, Fox, Gainsborough, </li></ul><ul><li>Lubin, Biograph, Universal, Rank, </li></ul><ul><li>Minerva, Selig, Columbia, Hepworth … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>They become part of our lives … </li></ul><ul><li>Our dates … our drives … our dances … </li></ul><ul><li>They are our dreams … </li></ul><ul><li>Left where we found them … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>The benchmark of a lost world … </li></ul><ul><li>“ hilarious comedy … </li></ul><ul><li>gorgeous spectacle” </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Some are snatched from us in their </li></ul><ul><li>Respected old age … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Some a constant reminder … </li></ul><ul><li>Of what was … </li></ul><ul><li>What could be … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>The birth of bingo … </li></ul><ul><li>The 1960s … </li></ul><ul><li>TV … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Hidden in unlikely places, </li></ul><ul><li>the dream palaces live on. </li></ul><ul><li>Sprinkling their m a g I c </li></ul><ul><li>into the buildings you see each day … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Some burn but stay alive … </li></ul><ul><li>A doorway alone since the 1930s … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Some linger … </li></ul><ul><li>Depleted … but surviving … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>The super cinema … </li></ul><ul><li>Large … </li></ul><ul><li>Spacious … </li></ul><ul><li>Comfortable … </li></ul><ul><li>Short-lived … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>They live, they thrive … </li></ul><ul><li>They have died but they remain … </li></ul><ul><li>Lost cinemas … </li></ul><ul><li>Lost dreams … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>68 screens in 1939 … </li></ul><ul><li>15 screens in 1980 … </li></ul><ul><li>Independents left today … </li></ul><ul><li>2 … </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Thanks for watching … </li></ul><ul><li>any that we’ve missed, </li></ul><ul><li>let us know! </li></ul>

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Lost cinemas … <ul><li>ABC, Vicar Lane </li></ul><ul><li>Odeon, Headrow </li></ul><ul><li>Odeon, Merrion Centre </li></ul><ul><li>Plaza, Upper Briggate </li></ul><ul><li>Classic, City Square </li></ul><ul><li>Coliseum-Gaumont, Cookridge Street </li></ul><ul><li>Majestic, City Square </li></ul><ul><li>Tower, Upper Briggate </li></ul><ul><li>Abbey, Kirkstall </li></ul><ul><li>Carr Crofts, Armley </li></ul><ul><li>Clock, Harehills </li></ul><ul><li>Glenroyal, Horsforth </li></ul><ul><li>Crown Electric, Wortley </li></ul><ul><li>Crown, Wortley </li></ul><ul><li>Imperial, Kirkstall Road </li></ul><ul><li>Lounge, Headingley </li></ul><ul><li>Lyric, Tong Road </li></ul><ul><li>Palace, Eyres Avenue </li></ul><ul><li>Playhouse, Clarendon Way </li></ul><ul><li>Plaza, Wellington Road </li></ul><ul><li>Shaftesbury, York Road </li></ul><ul><li>Star, York Road </li></ul><ul><li>Western, Branch Road </li></ul><ul><li>Crescent, Dewsbury Road </li></ul><ul><li>Picture House, Pudsey </li></ul>