![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior01.jpg) Exterior by night. The sign is copied from the Excelsior Kinema, Bethnal Green, East London.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior02.jpg) The photo on the foyer door is of the Excelsior, Bethnal Green taken in 1968, the year before demolition.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior03.jpg) The small foyer crammed with original fittings salvaged from old cinemas.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior04.jpg) RCA Photophone sign in the foyer.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior05.jpg) This way to the stalls. It's time for the show to begin.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior06.jpg) The six seat auditorium.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior07.jpg) The screen masked for Widescreen presentation.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior08.jpg) The screen masked for Scope presentation.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior09.jpg) Original Western Electric sign below the screen.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior10.jpg) Rear of the auditorium. Rescued from a bingo hall, the cherubs are dancing with joy at seeing films once again!
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior11.jpg) The show is on.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior12.jpg) Screen shot.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior13.jpg) Two-way Automaticket machine filled with banks of old pre-decimal tickets (shillings and pence).
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior14.jpg) Rewind bench and spool cabinet. Spare projector heads on the floor.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior15.jpg) Kalee 12 picture head (1941), Western Electric Universal Base (1930) and Monarc lamp (1939), complete with drip trays.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior16.jpg) Kalee 12 picture head with Scope lens and Western Electric Universal Base soundhead.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior17.jpg) Kalee 12 picture head and Western Electric Universal Base soundhead.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior18.jpg) Kalee 12 picture head, Western Electric Universal Base and Monarc lamp.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior19.jpg) Close-up of Western Electric Universal Base soundhead.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior20.jpg) Synchronous disc from the film "Redskins" (1929).
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior21.jpg) Ross GC1 picture head (1947), RCA 9031 soundhead (1947) and Peerless Magnarc (1930s).
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior22.jpg) Ross GC1 picture head and RCA 9031 soundhead.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior23.jpg) Ross GC1 picture head.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior24.jpg) Close-up of RCA 9031 soundhead.
![](pics/wheelan/Excelsior25.jpg) Interior of Peerless Magnarc, converted to halogen by fixing the lamp holder to the front carbon guide, thus enabling use of the original mirror. The carbons are purely decorative.
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