Keighley Picture House
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Movie theater
A movie theater, cinema, movie house, picture theater, film theater is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures ....
located in Keighley
Keighley
Keighley is a town and civil parish within the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. It is situated northwest of Bradford and is at the confluence of the River Aire and the River Worth...
, West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
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, England
England
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It opened in 1913 as a single screen cinema with stalls and balcony seating. In the years to come it was used for live shows and pop concerts as well as regular film screenings. In the 1970s, it was converted into a two screen cinema which is how it remains today. The picture house briefly closed in the mid 1990s but was eventually purchased by the Northern Morris company and re-opened in 1997.
Currently there is a main downstairs auditorium seating about 308 and a smaller upstairs auditorium that seats about 63. Both auditoriums feature Dolby Stereo
Dolby Stereo
Dolby Stereo, is the trade mark that Dolby Laboratories used for the various analogue stereo cinema sound formats that they produced.Two basic systems used this name. The first was the 'Dolby SVA' system used with optical soundtracks on 35mm film...
sound, air-conditioning and pullman seats.