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Abandoned Projectors

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Part 3: The Lyrics Last Picture Show

I’m finally concluding my Lyric Picture House Trilogy of Blogs, which ends with a photographic gathering of the visits to my favourite childhood place, the place that was The Cinema of My Youth that was fleetingly re-opened after 22 years from its dormant state of being untouched by human eyes for Lucy Skaer’s Film for an Abandoned Projector only then to be entombed yet again from our loving gaze… such a sad waste.

Premier 505 Film Rewinder
Projection Floor Window
Projection Room Window
Film Splicer
1955
In Conversation with Lucy Skaer
Peerless Magnarc
Lyric Seating Plan
Fixtures & Fittings
Film Rewinder (Part 2)
Roof Decay
Old Bell Phone
Kalee Projector
Reel Boxes
Light Switch
Kalee Inners
Peerless
Interval Projector
Arc Light
Hole in the Roof
Cinema for ONE!!…. Me
More Switches
Lights, Camera ACTION
Abandoned
Projection Room Door
Projection Room Door
The Lyric Picture House Tong Road
Alan Foster The Projectionist
Kalee Lens
Kalee Lens
Kalee
Kalee Model No20
The Lyric Sign
The Lyric
The Lyric Picture House
Kalee Projector
Peerless
Film Crank
Projectionist Alan Foster

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Return to The Lyric

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Part 2: Waxing Lyrical

I’ve returned to the Cinema of my Youth on a cold wet-n-windy October night last week, it was for an evening titled ‘In Conversation with Lucy Skaer’, the 2009 Turner Prize nominated Artist, as she explores her interest in the rapport between film and sculpture; the projector and the resulting spiritual space created by it. Continue reading Return to The Lyric →

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The Lyric Trilogy

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Part 1: THE CINEMA OF MY YOUTH

The Lyric Picture House, September 2011 by Carl Milner

Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood | Image courtesy of starwars.com ©2011

We all have our favourite cinemas from our childhood; some lucky kids had Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on Holly wood Boulevard. Pictured here at the opening of Star Wars in 1977.

In sharp contrast for me, it was The Lyric Picture House on Tong Road in Leeds, built 5 years before Grauman’s in 1922 by Leeds Architects Jones & Continue reading The Lyric Trilogy →