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Image shows the Crescent Picture House in Dewsbury Road. It was designed by architects C.C. Chadwick & William Watson of 9 Albion Street, Leeds. It opened on Bank Holiday Monday, 1st August, 1921 with a special opening picture 'Build Thy House'. Special features of the 1,158 seater cinema was the grand Picture House Organ which cost ?3000 to build, the first class orchestra and the 'latest and best' ventilation system. The films showing at the time of this image are 'Passion' starring Pola Negri which was released in 1919, 'Tess of the Storm Country', the 1914 film featuring Mary Pickford, and Pauline Fredrick in 'The Glory of Clementina' of 1922. The Crescent closed as a cinema on 6th July, 1968 and re-opened as a Bingo premises. The last film to be shown was 'The Man Outside' with Van Heflin. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | The Crescent Picture House Dewsbury Road | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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