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Bodmin Picture Theatre
Launceston Picture Theatre
Newquay Picture Theatre
Penzance Pavilion
Picture Theatre opened as Newquay Picture Theatre Ltd. In 1913 Launceston Picture
Theatre opened as Launceston Picture Theatre Ltd. The man behind this early chain was
Walter Ellis Slack. He continued to operate these cinemas until the late 1920s except for
Bodmin which closed due to competition from the new Turret Kinema.
It is not until 1937 that Mr Slack reappears. He is then living at 7 Marine Terrace, Penzance
and on 15.12.1937 takes the Pavilion cinema. However this venture is shortlived as the
building is requisitioned for the war effort in 1939 and closed.
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