Edinburgh has witnessed many great art deco buildings bite the dust down the decades, but few as beautiful as the Rutland Cinema.
Operated by Gaumont British Theatres, the Canning Street venue was one of Edinburgh's first purpose-built cinemas capable of showing "real" talkies, thanks to being equipped with the state-of-the-art Western Electric sound system.
It opened on April 28, 1930, just months before its sister venue, The New Victoria (latterly the Odeon) in Clerk Street. Designed by renowned cinema architect T. Bowhill Gibson, had a capacity of 2,187 making it one of the largest picturehouses built in the capital to date.
