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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵
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Jack Poole and family were real pioneers; they brought a cinématograph to Edinburgh as early as 1898. In 1921 he introduced live sound effects into silent pictures: literally bringing part of the house down on one occasion. He was one of the very first to appreciate the potential of sound-on-film 📽️

Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵@threadinburgh.scot

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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annemarie2.bsky.social
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That building sometimes showed films deemed 'questionable' as well as horror. My childhood ballet class took place there and we used to move along the corridor in the company of people we would have crossed the road to avoid!