Plymouth, Cinemas

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The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History

PLYMOUTH CINEMAS

It was Mr Robert William Paul who brought the first cinema pictures to Plymouth, when he displayed his Theatrograph machine at the Palace of Varieties in the St James's Hall, Union Street, on Monday November 9th 1896.

FROM	TO	NAME AND LINK TO MORE INFORMATION
1908	(1908)	Hale's Tours of the World
1909	1941	Grand Theatre \| Grand Theatre and Picture Palace (blitzed) #
1909	1923	Theatre De Luxe
1909	-------	Cinematograph Act 1909
1910	1941	Devonport Public Hall \| Electric Cinema (blitzed)
1910	1941	Hippodrome Theatre (blitzed) #
1910	1926	Cinema de Luxe
1910	1923	Theatre Elite
1910	1983	Belgrave Hall \| Belgrave Electric Theatre
1910	1941	Empire Electric Theatre
1910	1930	Andrews' Picture Palace (see Gaumont Palace)
1910	1941	St James's Hall \| Savoy Picture House (blitzed)
1910	1937	People's Picture Palace
1910	1933	Wycliffe Hall Electric Theatre \| Picturedrome
1910	1914	Cinema Picture Palace \| Coliseum Picture Palace
1910	1932	Morice Town & District Picture Palace (destroyed by fire)
1911	1939	Tivoli Picture Theatre
1911	(1916)	Picture Lounge \| Lyric Theatre \| New Lyric Picture House
1911	1934	Camel's Head Picture Palace \| Camel's Head Cinedrome \| Wolseley Cinedrome
1911	1941	Cinedrome (Plymouth) (blitzed)
1912	(1923)	Palladium \| Picturedrome \| Metropole (Picturedrome)
1912	1916	Paragon Picture Hall
1913	(1928)	Cinedrome (Plympton)
1914	1923	Cinedrome (Mutley) \| Argyle Cinema \| Roseville Empire
1917	1964	Palladium Cinema (Ford)
1918	1922	Picture House
1919	1941	Gaiety Theatre \|Carlton Theatre \|Embassy Cinema (blitzed)
1921	1939	Criterion Kinema
1922	1941	Palladium Cinema (blitzed)
1924	1932	Alhambra Theatre (blitzed) #
1927	-------	Cinematograph Films Act 1927
1929	-------	"Talkies" arrived in Plymouth
1931	1980	Gaumont Palace \| New Odeon Cinema
1931	1962	Regent Cinema \| Odeon Cinema
1934	1981	Plaza Cinema \| ABC Plaza \| Studio Seven \| Plaza Cinema
1938	Open	Royal Cinema \| Theatre Royal \| ABC Plymouth \| Cannon Cinema \| MGM Cinema \| ABC Cinema \| Reel Cinema
1939	1960	Forum Cinema
1939	1973	State Cinema \| Mayflower Cinema
1940	1940	The Kinema Van Visits Plymouth
1958	1999	Drake Cinema \| Drake Film Centre \| Drake-Odeon Cinema
1999	Open	Warner Village Leisure Complex \| Vue Cinema

# These are classified as Theatres not Cinemas.

Cinematograph licenses were also held from time to time by the original Theatre Royal and the New Palace Theatre of Varieties mainly during the pantomime season. Licenses were also issued to miscellaneous premises for short periods.