News cinema

See also: newsreel
A view from Piccadilly Circus in 1949: on the left Eros News Theatre. On the right the London Pavilion has a "continuous performance".

A news cinema or newsreel theatre is a cinema specialising in short films, shown in a continuous manner. However, despite its name, a news cinema does not necessarily show only cinematographical news.[1]

  1. ^ Rowntree, Seebohm; Lavers, G. R. (1951). English Life and Leisure. Read Books. ISBN 9781406702156.