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Description: | c1914. Morley Picture House was the first purpose
built cinema in the town and was opened in 1913. Here are the staff in front of the building in its early years, probably 1914 judging by the films on show which were The Sleuth Hounds, The Mystery of the Old Mill and A Tragedy in the Clouds. During its early years the Picture House had a cafe upstairs and the whole project was a big success so that by 1916 the New Pavilion Theatre was persuaded to change to the Pavilion Cinema, sometimes repeating films that had done well when shown at the Picture House. The Picture House changed over to "talkies" almost two years before the Pavilion, but also closed down several years before, in the 1960s. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | cinema Morley Picture House Queen Street | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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