The PPT Looking after cinemas heritage | in70mm.com

In the 1970s more and more ‘Picture Palaces’ were being boarded-up, turned into bingo halls, split into multi- screens or razed to the ground for “redevelopment”. More and more projection box equipment was being thrown into skips or sold for scrap. It was these developments that led, in November 1979, to the formation of The Projected Picture Trust.

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