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The Electric is a cinema in Birmingham, England.It opened in Station Street in 1909, showing its first silent film on 27 December of that year. It was the first cinema in Birmingham, and was the oldest working cinema in the country until its closure on 29 February 2024.
The annual event was spawned from the year-round antics of 7 Inch Cinema, originally a mixed-media filmnight at the Rainbow pub in Digbeth. The festival takes place across numerous venues in Birmingham city centre. Major venues to screen films include The Electric, the Ikon Gallery, mac (Birmingham) and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
When this partnership was dissolved, the cinemas were sold, except for the Tatler in Station Street (as the Electric Cinema, Birmingham's first, and extant but closed as of 2024), and the Oxford, which Cohen developed as news theatres, showing newsreels, cartoons and shorts, rather than feature-length dramatic films. [1]
Electric Cinema may refer to: The Electric, Birmingham, the oldest running cinema in the United Kingdom; The Electric Cinema, Notting Hill, ...
In 2004 Lawes purchased the then-derelict Electric cinema in Birmingham, the oldest known working cinema in the country. [6] Lawes then initiated a total renovation of the building, restoring it to its 1930s Art Deco aesthetic. [7] Following the £250,000 renovations, the cinema, which had closed in December 2003, re-opened for business in ...
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The building was a leasehold from Liverpool Corporation [2] and from this time the Futurist (and the Scala, adjacent, demolished in 2017) were both controlled by Levy Cinema Circuit, who also had cinemas in Birmingham. The era of silent films ended in 1929 [2] at the futurist and new ‘Western Electric Talking Equipment’ was installed. By ...
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