Cinema
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 600 items related to the cinema in Glasgow, both as a business and leisure activity, which date from the early to mid 20th century. This collection comprises material that covers the peak period of cinema attendance and popularity in the city. This includes projectors and seating from the early days of cinema when moving pictures were shown in geggies (penny theatres), through a wide range of posters and programmes that make up the majority of the collection to the elegant glass panels from the Mayfair Cinema. There is also a Pathescope Ace Home Cinema movie projector with reels of Walt Disney film. Other items include postcards, prints, photographs, magazines, books, plans and documents, cigarette cards, cinema sheet music, trophies and commemorative ware, cinema fittings, a wooden gavel, a paperweight souvenir, an usherette’s torch, a cuttings book and cinema spray. Within this collection area there also material related to the early cinema entrepreneurs in Glasgow such as George Urie Scott and Prince Bendon. The collection of the Cinema Club, Glasgow, founded by Bendon and the first of its kind in Britain, was gifted to Glasgow Museums in 1975.
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