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  2. Pictureville Cinema - Wikipedia

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    Pictureville Cinema. Coordinates: 53.791°N 1.757°W. The interior, ready for showing a Cinerama film on the curved screen. Pictureville Cinema is a cinema auditorium located within the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The building was originally the Theatre for Bradford Central Library which opened in 1967.

  3. National Science and Media Museum - Wikipedia

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    The National Science and Media Museum (formerly The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, 1983–2006 [2] [3] and then the National Media Museum, 2006–2017 [4] [5] ), located in Bradford, West Yorkshire, is part of the national Science Museum Group in the UK. The museum has seven floors of galleries with permanent exhibitions ...

  4. Cinerama - Wikipedia

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    The Pictureville Cinema at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, England, beginning in June 1993 As of 2023, the Pictureville Cinema continues to hold periodic screenings of three-projector Cinerama movies. The New Neon Cinema in Dayton, Ohio from 1996 to 2000, presented by The Cinerama Preservation Society, Inc.

  5. Louis Le Prince - Wikipedia

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    Forty years later, Le Prince's daughter, Marie, gave the remaining apparatus to the Science Museum, London (later transferred to the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (NMPFT), Bradford, which opened in 1983 and is now the National Science and Media Museum). In May 1931, photographic plates were produced by workers of the ...

  6. Robert W. Paul - Wikipedia

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    Robert William Paul (3 October 1869 – 28 March 1943) was an English pioneer of film and scientific instrument maker. He made narrative films as early as April 1895, which were shown first in Edison Kinetoscope knockoffs. In 1896 he showed his films projected, at about the time the Lumière brothers were pioneering projected films in France.

  7. Independent cinema in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The United Kingdom has a well-established history of independent cinema exhibition dating from the 1930s and the Film Society Movement, which still exists as the British Federation of Film Societies. Since the 1980s independent exhibition has thrived in regional film theatres set up under the auspices of the British Film Institute.

  8. List of people from Oklahoma City - Wikipedia

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    Brian Bosworth, linebacker for the University of Oklahoma (1984–1986) and the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (1987–1989) Jacob Aldolphus Bryce (Delf A. 'Jelly' Bryce), was an Oklahoma City detective and FBI agent, who was an exceptional marksman and fast draw noted for his dress sense.

  9. Bradford Alhambra - Wikipedia

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    Bradford Alhambra. The Alhambra Theatre is a theatre in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, named after the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain, which was the place of residence of the Emir of the Emirate of Granada. It was built in 1913 at a cost of £20,000 for theatre impresario Francis Laidler, and opened on Wednesday 18 March 1914.