Bill Mather, who worked in Ryhope's Grand Cinema in the 1950s, is among the first to see inside.
ShareA man was "transported back to his childhood" after the cinema he worked as a projectionist at was reconstructed in a museum.
"It was like being in another world, you had the whirring of the projector going, the arc lamp and the carbon, and that's how it was done." Beamish Museum chief executive Rhiannon Hiles said it had "very carefully" recorded each detail from the original building before it was demolished.
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