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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 cinema received its current name in 1942 [1] after it was purchased by Oscar Deutsch's Odeon Cinemas chain. During the 1960s to the mid-1980s it was a very popular venue for concerts.The Beatles performed at the Odeon in 1964, as did The Rolling Stones with Ike & Tina Turner and The Yardbirds in 1966. [2]
By the end of 2003, it was the largest leisure park in the country ahead of The Printworks in Manchester and The Mailbox in Birmingham city centre. [4] A Goals soccer centre opened in 2007 with fourteen floodlit pitches situated on the roof. Goals also incorporates a Sports Bar which shows year round sporting events on both Sky and Terrestrial ...
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 ...
The group is extending its operating area and has opened cinemas in northern England. The first of these opened in Leeds in April 2013 as part of the Trinity Leeds development in the city centre [4] and a second opened within The Mailbox in Birmingham on 27 February 2015. [5] A further cinema opened in Harrogate in September 2016.
The old Piccadilly Cinema building is located in Sparkhill, Birmingham, England, and is situated on the Stratford Road.. It first opened in May 1930 under the name the Piccadilly Super Cinema and was designed by Harold Seymore Scott.
Picturehouse West Norwood. Picturehouse Cinemas is a network of cinemas in the United Kingdom, operated by Picturehouse Cinemas Ltd. [1] and owned by Cineworld. [2] The company runs its own film distribution arm, Picturehouse Entertainment, [3] which has released acclaimed films such as Hirokazu Kore-eda's Broker and Monster, Scrapper, Corsage, Sally Potter's The Party, Francis Lee's God's Own ...
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 ...