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Nine former Edinburgh cinema venues that survived demolition and found a new lease of life

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Vincent
AuthorDavid McLean
Published date26 June 2022
Publication titleEdinburghLive (Scotland)
Big name multiplexes serve the outskirts and centre of the capital, while a bunch of smaller cinemas and home-grown independent screens, such as the Dominion and Cameo, are peppered throughout the rest of the city

But it's nothing compared to yesteryear.

The number of venues on offer today is positively dwarfed by the incredible picture house coverage enjoyed in generations past.

Edinburgh's first cinemas tended to open within existing buildings, but as more and more people flocked to the pictures, an array of purpose-built 'temples' began to appear and, by the 1930s, cinemas were ubiquitous.

They had swanky and exotic names like Roxy, Tivoli and Alhambra, and boasted lavish and inventive interiors that whisked punters off to far flung places - much like the films they were about to watch.

Venues such as the New Victoria in Clerk Street, the State Cinema in Leith's Great Junction Street and the County Cinema in Portobello were designed in a distinctive style we now term art deco.

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