All change

Publication

Rewind 186

Author

Dion Hanson

Published

March, 2025

Dion Hanson describes the various upgrades and changes of projection equipment to a few UK cinemas.

This issue’s topic is cinemas changing equipment. I have spent my working life hauling equipment in and out of projection rooms (and I’m still doing it!). I have managed to find an assortment of images from the PPT archive of cinemas having such an upgrade, be it projectors, sound systems, or new technologies.

The first is dated 1948, showing a foyer display in St George’s Hall Bradford - in 1898 it was the first venue in Bradford to show films. They are obviously pushing the fact that the Kalee 20 was made “just down the road” (more details about the history of Kalee projectors and the Kershaw Projector Co. can be found on page 8 of this issue of Rewind).