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Scala Cinemaon
Feb 6, 2021 at 11:53 am
The Scala cinema has nearly 400 seats. It was built around 1953 to be able to show the then new CinemaScope format. It ran films using change overs every twenty minute reel. Two BTH Supa MK2 projectors running carbon arc lamphouses and BTH mono sound gear. The first film ever shown was the 20th Century Fox release ‘The Robe’ in CinemaScope and Technicolor.
This cinema closed down in Feb 2026.
The Scala cinema has nearly 400 seats. It was built around 1953 to be able to show the then new CinemaScope format. It ran films using change overs every twenty minute reel. Two BTH Supa MK2 projectors running carbon arc lamphouses and BTH mono sound gear. The first film ever shown was the 20th Century Fox release ‘The Robe’ in CinemaScope and Technicolor.
Now closed down since 2019