Client Project - Script - Broadway Cienma

VOICE OVER SCRIPT
BROADWAY CIENMA
BY ABDUL SEEDAT

Broadway cinema is located in the historic lace market are of Nottingham and has been a stable pillar of the lace markets skyline.

The building has seen many incarnations first as Wesleyan Chapel. The chapel was originally open on the 2nd of December 1797. A larger chapel was erected in 1847 and stood firm till 1930 where the final service was held .

During the inter-war years the chapel's Sunday School and Boys’ Brigade company flourished. But by 1954 also faced the same fate. The building faced demolition in 1966.

Throughout its rice history the building saw many people walk through its doors non more than William Booth . Commemorated with a plaque in the foyer was the former apprentice pawnbroker.

Booth (a preacher) devoted his life to helping the poor. And in 1878, founding the Salvation Army.

By 1957 the newly formed Film Society took over the site and began running monthly screenings of international and archive films in the auditorium of the Co-operative Educational Centre. (1959).

On 22 September 1966 the Nottingham Film Theatre opened its doors to the public.
Broadway Cinema was born out this with support from the BFI, East Midlands Arts, Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council.

The building became the Broadway Cinema on 31 August 1989.