A hundred years on and despite peaks, troughs, and threats to its existence, cinema is not dead. Indeed, cinemas still opening all the time, but now you longer have to queue outside in the rain or sit with 3,000 other people, many of whom smoke during the film. There are plenty of small, independent or community cinemas, such as The Electric Picture Palace in Southwold, the Kino housed in the former Rye Library (1850s, above), and the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield in a former 1936 car dealership building.