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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 ...
Pictureville Cinema. 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. Pictureville is one of the best equipped cinemas in the world. It is equipped for 35 mm, 70 mm, 4K ...
The Pictureville Cinema at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, England, beginning in June 1993; The New Neon Cinema in Dayton, Ohio from 1996 to 1999; The refurbished Seattle Cinerama in Seattle, from 1999 to 2020; Pacific Theatres’ Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, from 2002 to 2020
The National Science and Media Museum hosts the Bradford International Film Festival annually in March. In June 2009 Bradford was designated the world's first UNESCO City of Film for its links to the production and distribution of films, its media and film museum and its "cinematographic legacy". "Becoming the world's first City of Film is the ...
Alhambra Theatre, Bradford. 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.
In 2007 the gallery moved to Centenary Square, Bradford. The gallery's archive, dating back to 1972, was given to the National Media Museum, Bradford, in 2013. It is called the 'Impressions Gallery Archive', a part of the National Photography Collection.
The EIMC department was founded in 1991 and developed its courses in conjunction with the School of Art, Design & Textiles at Bradford and Ilkley Community College (now known as Bradford College) and the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (now the National Media Museum).
History William Friese-Greene Charles Urban, 1914 Cecil Hepworth Sir Oswald Stoll, 1922 Origins and silent films The world's first moving picture was shot in Leeds by Louis Le Prince in 1888 and the first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by British inventor William Friese Greene, who patented the process in 1890. Charlie Chaplin, c. 1918 The ...