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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 ...
Odeon Cinemas Group Limited [1] is Europe's largest cinema operator. Through subsidiaries it has over 360 cinemas, with 2900 screens in 14 countries in Europe, 120 cinemas with 960 screens are in the UK. [2] It receives more than 2.2 million guests per week. [3] [4] Odeon Cinemas Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of AMC Theatres.
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The Odeon Cinema, originally the Gaumont, is a multiplex cinema in Holloway, London, England. It was built in 1938, and designed by the American architect C. Howard Crane . It is a Grade II listed building : the listing text states that "its external impact is still greater than almost any other cinema, an example of trans-Atlantic bravura."
Odeon, a 2013 music album by Tosca "Odeon", a composition by Ernesto Nazareth (1863–1934); Odéon (Paris Métro), a station in Paris, France Odeon Film, a German film production company
By the 1930s, the venue had become used exclusively a cinema under the name Palace Picture House. A state- of-the-art sound system was installed in order for the new ‘talkies’ system to be used which saw a recording of the film soundtrack being played over a gramophone which was synchronised with the projector.
In 1988 the Odeon was refurbished and made into a 5-screen cinema with a reduced seating capacity of 1,923. The Odeon, which was the last picture palace in the city centre, closed due to competition with local multiplexes and the impending opening of a thirteen screen multiplex at The Light retail and leisure complex originally operated by Ster ...
[1] [2] [3] The listing text comments that it is "One of only three surviving 'atmospheric' interiors in Britain, the others being The Academy, Brixton, and The Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park." [1] Screens 4 to 7 of Odeon Richmond are in a separate building on Red Lion Street, a former billiard hall which opened as Odeon Studios in 1992. [2] [4]