Counted in seats

Cinema City, measured in the only unit it had

The room

The edition

Screenings

Filled

Draw the seats

By 1939 Glasgow had about 114 picture houses and more than 175,000 cinema seats, more per head than any city in the world, which is where Cinema City comes from. A festival that inherits that can measure itself in seats rather than screens: every sign, ticket and poster states the seats in the room it is standing in, and the edition is reported as seats filled against the 175,000 the city once had. It makes the audience the unit, which is the bureaucratic version of saying the festival is for people. The venue capacities below are examples, not the real ones.

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