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Howarth, Alfred Biography Biography
Alfred Howarth was a cinema projectionist and manager who worked for a number of cinemas in the north of England from the 1920s to the 1960s. He worked for the Odeon chain as well as a number of independent cinemas including Bradford Theatre Royal Picture House.

Scope and Content
This series contains a small amount of correspondence relating to the installation of audio-visual and projection equipment at Bradford Theatre Royal Picture House.
Extent
One file
Physical description
Fair
Language
English
Level of description
SERIES
Repository name
National Science and Media Museum, Bradford

Associated people and organisations

Bradford Theatre Royal Picture House Ltd Biography Biography
Bradford Theatre Royal Picture House was a cinema based in Bradford between 1921 and 1974, based in the building which formerly operated as Bradford Theatre Royal. The cinema opened as the Bradford Theatre Royal Picture House on the 5th of December 1921 with a showing of the Charlie Chaplin film 'The Idle Class.' In 1965 the cinema's owners had gone bankrupt and it was put up for sale by the liquidators. A Company called Expo 20 Ltd. then bought the Theatre and after refurbishment they reopened it as the Irving Royal Cinema, as a tribute to Henry Irving who had played his last performance at the Theatre some years before in 1905. The Irving Royal Cinema opened on the 27th of February 1967 with the Al Jolson film 'The Singing Fool'. In October the same year Classic Cinemas took over the building and renamed it the Classic Royal Cinema, unceremoniously dropping the Irving name. The Classic closed on the 16th of November 1974 after a last showing of the film 'The Graduate'.
Rank Wharfedale Ltd

Subject
Cinema
Local history
Bradford
Cinema buildings
Conditions governing access
Access is given in accordance with the NSMM access policy. Material from this collection is available to researchers through the museum’s Insight facility.
Conditions governing Reproduction
Copies may be supplied of items in the collection, provided that the copying process used does not damage the item or is not detrimental to its preservation. Copies will be supplied in accordance with the NSMM’s terms and conditions for the supply and reproduction of copies, and the provisions of any relevant copyright legislation.