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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵
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There was much media excitement last week over a well-substantiated claim that a Scottish film - shown in an Edinburgh picture house - was the world's first "Talkie", a year before… https://threadinburgh.scot/2026/10/12/pooles-synod-the-thread-about-edinburghs-pioneering-cinematic-hall-of-horror/

threadinburgh.scotPoole’s Synod: the thread about Edinburgh’s pioneering cinematic Hall of HorrorThere was much media excitement last week over a well-substantiated claim that a Scottish film - shown in an Edinburgh picture house - was the world's first "Talkie", a year before the "Jazz Singer". This thread examines that cinema and the pioneering family of entertainers who ran it.

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