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Scottish Screen Archive at the National Library of ScotlandThe original caption states this is Wishaw, 1936, but no cinema of that name is known there. Could this be the cinema at RAF Kinloss?
Images courtesy of the Scottish Screen Archive at the National Library of Scotland.
New Picture House, St Andrews
Scottish Screen Archive at the National Library of ScotlandOriginally thought possibly to show the projection box of Dominion Cinema 3, this was identified as the projection box of Screen 2 at the New Picture House, St Andrews, thanks to Bill Dailly.
Image courtesy of the Scottish Screen Archive at the National Library of Scotland.
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Scottish Screen Archive at the National Library of ScotlandThe identity of this projection booth remains unconfirmed.
Image courtesy of the Scottish Screen Archive at the National Library of Scotland.
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Cinema Theatre Association ArchiveThis drawing of a cinema auditorium, dated March 1927 (or possibly 1921), was made by J. D. M. Harvey for the architect Alistair G. Macdonald and is captioned ‘The auditorium of a 1,200 seater.’
Image courtesy of the Cinema Theatre Association Archive.
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Scottish Cinemas archiveThis building, clearly a church or church hall of some kind, is in a scrapbook on the same page as a cinema in Ayr — could it be close to that geographically? Or indeed, alphabetically?
Last updated: 28 July 2026
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