TECHNICAL DATA

PROPRIETORS Regal cinema Co 1939
Bedford cinemas Ltd 1943

OPENING DATE 4TH of March 1939

OPENING DATE
AS CINERAMA 18th of March 1964

FIRST FILM, 1939 Joy of Living

FIRST 3D FILM, 1954 Kiss me Kate

FIRST SCOPE FILM,1954 The Command

FIRST 70MM FILM 1960 South Pacific

FIRST 3 STRIP CINERAMA
FILM, 1964 This is Cinerama

FIRST 70MM CINERAMA
FILM, 1965 It`s a mad mad mad mad worl d

LAST CINERAMA FILM 1971 Song of Norway

LAST GIANT SCREEN
70MM FILM 04.08.1979 The Towering Inferno

Cinema Closed 04.08.1979

Projection Equiptment
Top projection box Kalee 12`s, Westrex
Soundheads, Peerless
Magnarcs (carbon fed)
X2 Single reel changover
Rear Stalls Projection box
1964-1979 Cinemeccanica dual 35mm/70m m
Victoria 8`s, Super Zenith 450`s Carbon Arc
Lamp houses.

SEATS (1939) 1,876
SEATS (1964) 1,260
Reduced to accomodate
new Cinerama projection
box at rear of stalls