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Odeon cinema in Reading, Berkshire in 1945 with filmgoers outside queuing for tickets. Odeon Cinemas was created in 1928 by entrepreneur Oscar Deutsch. [5] Odeon publicists liked to claim that the name of the cinemas was derived from his motto, "Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation", [5] but it had been used for cinemas in France and Italy in the 1920s, and the word is actually Ancient Greek ...
The Odeon (Justice Mill Lane) also The Regent; The Palace (also Cook's Circus, Jollity, People's Palace, Palace Theatre, Palace Ballroom, Fusion Discotheque, Ritzy's Discotheque) The Palais De Danse; The (Picture) Playhouse; The Queen's (also Eagles Nightclub) The Savoy (formerly Gilcomstoun South Church (old), Philharmonic Hall, Albert Hall)
Silverscreen was a British chain store brand founded in 2003 in the United Kingdom and focused on films.It was founded by Ernesto Schmitt and Sebastian James. [1]Starting from an initial six stores in 2003, Silverscreen was the United Kingdom's first specialist DVD high street retailer offering an extensive selection of chart and non-chart products (there was also the short lived "Playhouse ...
He later became interested in opening an arthouse theater while living in San Francisco with his husband, Michael O’Rand, and in 2000, he opened Rialto Cinemas, a five-screen theater in Santa ...
Odeon Cinemas Group, the U.K.-based European subsidiary of AMC Theatres, currently ranks as Europe’s largest exhibition circuit in terms of number of screens, followed by by Cineworld (U.K ...
The RealD 3D system works by using a single digital projector that swaps back and forth between the images for eyes. A filter is placed in front of the projector that changes the polarization of the light coming from the projector. A silver screen is used to reflect this light back at the audience and reduce loss of brightness.
A silver screen is used for 3D presentations, placed in front of the white screen used for 2D presentations. The silver screen is a fraction smaller and screen tabs are not used during 3D performances. Most of the trained projectionists at the Odeon retired, or were made redundant in 2011. Presentations are now mostly automated.
The Playhouse Theatre was built in 1929 by John Fairweather; and the first production in 1929 was the Winter Garden Theatre's So This Is Love. [1] In 1930, The Playhouse became a cinema, the interior was redesigned in 1931, and in 1932, the cinema was taken over by Associated British Cinemas.