Simon Edelstein has spent twelve years travelling around the world - the USA, France, Italy, India, Morocco and Cuba - in search of abandoned cinemas, visiting far-flung areas in cities in over thirty countries, on the lookout for forgotten building façades, worn by the ravages of time, that still reveal signs testifying to their former glory.

Although these timeworn and forgotten picture palaces, asleep under the dust of so many years, have long ceased to be the focus of the Saturday night crowds, they reveal to Simon Edelstein's lens their splendid archaeological record of frontages, entrances, and vast auditoriums - like ships lost at sea.

This book is a tribute to reminders of the golden age of movie theatres the world over, now silent but determined not to be forgotten.