Home Photo Gallery Final evening Diary How you can help Petition Forum Related links Press coverage Related reading		Save Newcastle's Paramount Theatre (Odeon Cinema) You are here: Newcastle Paramount » Reading Welcome... This site is supporting the campaign to prevent the decay or demolition of the former Paramount Theatre (Odeon Cinema) in Newcastle upon Tyne, and secure its restoration and re-use as an entertainment venue. Related reading (6) Cinemas of Newcastle Frank Manders (2005) Paperback - 196 pages Newcastle Libraries and Information Service ISBN: 1857951522 Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk: From the era of the cinematography and silent movies, through the talkies, to Cinerama and the multiplexes, "Cinemas of Newcastle" traces the varying fortunes of the city centre and suburban cinemas of Newcastle upon Tyne. Frank Manders has fully revised this lavishly illustrated book, telling the story of how the film industry grew and developed in North-East England. Check Amazon.co.uk for pricing and availability Cinema Treasures: A New Look at Classic Movie Theaters Ross Melnick, Andreas Fuchs (2004) Hardcover - 204 pages Motorbooks International ISBN: 0760314926 Synopsis by publisher: What twin theater opened in 1915? How did Marcus Loew begin his career? Where was stadium seating first popularized? Who was "Roxy"? Answers to these questions and many more can be found in a Cinema Treasures, by Ross Melnick and Andreas Fuchs. This new book will not only interest anyone working in or studying motion picture exhibition, but just about everyone who loves to go to the movies. Melnick and Fuchs demonstrate how classic theaters in major cities and small towns across the United States are alive and well today, thanks to the dedication of their owners, community initiatives, and cultural and corporate sponsorships. Cinema Treasures showcases American movie theaters of all eras and architectural styles. There are single-screen theaters, twins, triplexes, and, of course, multi- and megaplexes - all of which are of intrinsic cultural, social, architectural, and historical significance, at the same time as they hold a special place in the hearts of moviegoers. Cinema Treasures celebrates the past, present, and future of the moviegoing experience. In addition to individual theater profiles chosen to represent over 100 years of moviegoing, the main attraction of Cinema Treasures is its tour through the history of U.S. theatrical exhibition - from the penny arcade and nickelodeon pioneers, to the designers and showmen of the movie palace era, the drive-in developers and widescreen visionaries, and the theater circuits of today. Well-rounded and meticulously researched, this survey features an informative and engaging narrative filled with hundreds of beautiful photographs, vintage ads, and other fascinating images. Contents: Preface I. Five and Dime: 1904 - 1912 II. Birth of the Palaces: 1913 - 1919 III. Chain Store Strategies: 1920 - 1925 IV. "Temples of Democracy": 1926 - 1932 V. Bust and Boom: 1933 - 1946 VI. Breakup, Breakdown & Breakthroughs: 1947 - 1962 VII. Splitsville: 1962 - 1974 VIII. Now Playing... Everywhere: 1975 - 1994 IX. Re-Screening America: 1995 - Present Resources Acknowledgments Index Check Amazon.co.uk for pricing and availability The Buildings of England - Northumberland Nikolaus Pevsner, Sir Ian Richmond, John Grundy, et al (2002) Hardcover - 704 pages Yale University Press ISBN: 0300096380 Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk: The county's remarkable and richly varied military architecutre, from Hadrian's Wall to Warkworth, contrasts with monastic ruins buried deep in the valleys of the Coquet and the Aln or standing proudly by the sea at Holy Island and Tynemouth. Newcastle upon Tyne has the most elegant nineteenth-century city centre in England. Elsewhere the distinctive smaller towns include Alnwick, dominated by its castle, Hexham with its priory, brick-built Morpeth, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, ringed with exceptional sixteenth-century fortifications. Great country houses range from Vanbrugh's theatrical Seaton Delaval to Sir Charles Monck's austere Belsay and Norman Shaw's romantic Cragside. Monuments of a great industrial past, as well as a wealth of smaller buildings, such as bastle houses (peelhouses or stronghouses unique to the Border country), are all vividly described in this revised guide to Northumberland's architectural pleasures. Check Amazon.co.uk for pricing and availability Odeon Cinemas: Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation Allen Eyles (2002) Paperback - 224 pages BFI (British Film Institute) Publishing ISBN: 0851708137 Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk: This first volume about the history of Odeon cinemas in Britain traces its creation in the 1930s and its evolution to the modern house style of key architects. It looks at the Odeon take over of other cinemas, the Odeon circuit release and the impact of World War II. This book is also a tribute to the architecture of the Odeon cinemas which were built in Britain in the 1930s. There are photographs of interior and exterior architecture of almost all the new Odeon cinemas. The book draws on unpublished material including notes of Deutsch's associates and company. records. The second volume will cover the years after Deutsch's death in 1941 when J.Arthur Rank took control, to the present day. Check Amazon.co.uk for pricing and availability Cinemas in Britain: 100 Years of Cinema Architecture Richard Gray (1996) Hardcover - 144 pages Lund Humphries ISBN: 0853316856 Synopsis by publisher: The cinema in Britain celebrated its 100th birthday in 1996. This fascinating study looks at the history of the cinema building in Britain, from its nineteenth-century origins right up to the present day. The first purpose-built cinemas were little more than basic rectangular rooms. However, as the popularity of film-going grew in the 1920s and 1930s, the buildings became more complex and theatrical in atmosphere. These movie palaces could seat as many as 4000 people and often featured fantasy interiors, such as Egyptian temples and Gothic cathedrals. In the present day we have returned to the rectangular room, but now in the form of 'multiplex' screen cinemas. Beautifully illustrated, this book not only provides a detailed architectural history of the cinema, but also evokes the magic of movie-going. Check Amazon.co.uk for pricing and availability Art Deco Interiors: Decoration and Design Classics of the 1920s and 1930s Patricia Bayer (1998) Paperback - 224 pages Thames & Hudson ISBN: 0500280207 Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk: By the time of the Paris exhibition of 1925 from which Art Deco took its name, the idea that an interior and its furnishings should form a complete design - a "total look" - dominated the thinking of both designers and their clients. Studios began to emerge to serve the needs of a design and style-conscious middle-class. This text displays the flourishing design ingenuity through contemporary photographs and illustrations of selected interiors complemented with modern photographs of individual pieces. It traces the sylistic evolution and dominant motifs of Deco, the triumph of the 1925 exhibition and the pure "high style" of the Paris ensembliers; the growth of Streamline Moderne offshoots in the US; the international revival of Deco as a decorative style for a new generation of post-modern designers; and the restoration of many Art Deco interiors to their original state. Check Amazon.co.uk for pricing and availability top of page

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