News cinema

The Daily Bioscope was opened in a converted shop on 23rd May 1906 with Lubin Manufacturing Company's “The San Francisco Disaster”,[4][5] Pathé Frères' “The Olympic Games at Athens” (Jeux Olympiques d'Athènes)[6] and two short comedies.

[19] In England in 1951, however, when Seebohm Rowntree published his study on English Life and Leisure, he counted "approximately 20 news cinemas in London", and "very few [...] in the provinces, probably not more than a dozen in all".

[1] The original programmes of news cinemas featured mainly of newsreels, possibly with a short subject or travelogue.

[1][20] Actor Peter O'Toole, who grew up in Leeds in the 1930s, reported in an interview with Roger Ebert that his father often took him to a nearby news cinema.

According to him, they have been replaced with cartoons, travelogues, or films on such general subjects as sports, fashion, or domestic economy.