The former Riddrie Cinema on Cumbernauld Road in the east end of Glasgow. Constructed in the Art Deco Moderne style, this beautiful and stylish building was designed by James McKissack. It's considered one of the best preserved 1930s suburban super-cinemas in Scotland.
The grand entrance to the former La Scala cinema on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. Originally a warehouse, it was converted into a cinema at the start of the 20th Century. Designed by Duff and McKissack, it originally seated 1,000 people. It closed in 1984, and was converted into a bookshop in the 1990s.
When in opened, it seated over a thousand people, and showed its last film in 1961. This was the Oscar-winning biopic of Frantz List Song Without End, which starred Dirk Bogarde who went to the city's Allan Glen's School in his teenage years.
The Govanhill Picture House. This wonderful Egyptian-themed Art Deco cinema was designed by Eric Sutherland and opened in 1926. It's design was presumably inspired by the mania for all things accient Egyptian which swept the world after the rediscovery of Tutankhamun's tomb just a few years before in 1922.
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