on boxing day 1863, the princess theatre locally built by john parr and sons, opened in west street to a packed house, many hundereds having to be turned away, thirty years later the theatre had become a cine variety house, interspersing live entertainment with films. it then also changed its name to the americanised-german KINO, The Kino gradually staged fewer and fewer shows turning more exclusively to to films around 1914. By the early 1960's the last film had been shown, with bingo taking over, quite recently the building has been turned into a snookerhall in 2007. the name princess theatre is still emblazoned on its front gable and although much has altered internally it is much of hoylands credit that the main fabric of the building has still survived. last week on the 11/03/10 the snookerhall closed down, proving hard to get into the builind to film the second half of the film, today the 17/03/10, we progressed with the shooting of the piece and has worked very well we used the time effectivly gathering some great shots, we chose the building as it has so much history and has that overall spooky feel we were wanting to gather. the building has untouched stair wells and rooms from as late as when it was the old theatre with old projection rooms and the balcony stair wells and steps for tiered seating. with added extras random bangs creaks this adds feeling for the actors greatening their adrenaline rush making them more cautious to whats going to happen next which has a great effect on the film itself.
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