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A silver screen, also known as a silver lenticular screen, is a type of projection screen that was popular in the early years [when?] [vague] of the motion picture industry and passed into popular usage as a metonym for the cinema industry. The term silver screen comes from the actual silver (or similarly reflective aluminium) content embedded ...
One of the former Odeon cinemas in Leeds, pictured in May 1980.This is now a Sports Direct branch.. Odeon Cinemas was created in 1928 by Oscar Deutsch.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 ...
Trowbridge (/ ˈ t r oʊ b r ɪ dʒ / TROH-brij) is the county town of Wiltshire, England; situated on the River Biss in the west of the county, close to the border with Somerset.The town lies 8 miles (13 km) south-east of Bath, 31 miles (50 km) south-west of Swindon and 20 miles (32 km) south-east of Bristol.
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 ...
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.
Athena is a Grade II-listed events venue in the cultural quarter of Leicester City Centre, England.Built originally as an Odeon Cinema in 1936, it closed for most of the 1990s and remained vacant up until 2005, where the building was restored as a multi-discipline events venue.
In September 2017 the cinema underwent a major refit converting the cinema to Odeon Leeds-Bradford Luxe. This included the installation of Recliner chairs into every screen, refits to the foyer and toilets and the installation of a new food and drink retail counter as well as the introduction of a bar area installed into former unused space.
The Odeon Covent Garden in 2018 The Saville was taken over by ABC Theatres (owned by EMI) in 1970 and converted into a two-screen cinema by William Ryder and Associates. The gala opening on 22 December 1970 featured There's a Girl in My Soup in ABC 1 (616 seats) and The Railway Children in ABC 2 (581 seats).