The project primarily concentrates on Scottish purpose built cinemas, with particular emphasis and details on the cinemas of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The focus of the website is to provide a photographic and historical record of all surviving cinema buildings, including those now unrecognisable or otherwise highly altered over the years. Cinemas that have now been demolished are also featured where photographs exist and copyright allows us to use them.
A network of volunteers means that the website is constantly expanding and there are frequent updates of new material and cinema news.
We aim to present photographic references of the current state of these buildings, highlighting original decorative features where they survive, and often focusing on how they have been adapted for other uses, while at the same time telling their history with the help of archive material where available.
Scottish Cinemas Database
The
website is also home to the Scottish
Cinemas Database, an online
resource of all of Scotland's cinema buildings, from 1902 to the
present
day. This is fully searchable and constantly updated as new
information
becomes available. It currently contains information on over 1,100
cinemas.
We welcome contributions of information, photographs, memories or anything else related to Scotland's cinemas - if you have any material you'd like to share, please do get in touch.