Gaumont Palace/ Odeon - Old cinema in Coventry
Here are some pictures of the Old Gaumont Cinema in Coventry. In its heyday, the cinema used to attract thousands of visitors every week.
The building is now part of Coventry University's School of Art and Design, and instead of people watching films in the building, they are now being made there by our media and performance students.
To see some pictures of how the building is being used now, visit
Odeon Cinemas
Odeon is a cinema brand name operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland, which along with UCI Cinemas is part of the American Multi Cinema Theaters. It uses the famous name of the Odeon cinema circuit first introduced in Britain in 1930. The first Odeon cinema was opened by Oscar Deutsch in 1928, in Brierley, Staffordshire, although initially called Picture House. The first cinema to use the Odeon brand name was Deutsch's cinema at Perry Barr, Birmingham in 1930. Ten years later Odeon was part of the Rank Organisation who continued their ownership of the circuit for a further sixty years. Through a number of sales and acquisitions in the early 2000s the company was purchased by Terra Firma, which merged Odeon and UCI Cinemas to form Odeon UCI Cinemas Group. Most UCI cinemas then took the Odeon brand name in 2006. Terra Firma/UCI sold the company to AMC Theatres in November 2016. Ironically, UCI was originally formed through the merger of AMC UK and Cinema International Corporation in 1989. In 2016, Odeon was the largest cinema chain in the United Kingdom by market share (although the Irish cinemas were also included within this figure).
Returning to the ABANDONED ODEON CINEMA!
► THE EXPLORE: So last time we came here we got into two of the smaller screens, but we really wanted to get into the top screen, but at the time we could not find a way... so we went back... and found a way in ;)
► SITE HISTORY: Opened on the 14th December 1936 with it's opening film being Chick. It was one of the largest and most expensive cinemas designed by Andrew Mather for Odeon.
Consisting of 4 screens in total, including a massive 631 seater screen upstairs. Today only 3 screens are accessible!
In 2007 the freehold on the building was sold by Odeon and the final performances were held on 10th January 2008.
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ODEON IMAX in London with 18 screens !! Sr channel uk !!
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The BFI London IMAX is the largest cinema screen in Britain. It measures 26m by 20m with a total screen size of 520m². However, if showing a film with an aspect ratio of 2.39:1, only 283m² of the screen will be in use, or 365m² for a 1.85:1 film. The auditorium seats 485.[7]
Despite the cinema having the largest screen in Britain, when showing in the flagship IMAX format (70mm film) at an aspect ratio of 1.43, it does not offer the biggest image. That can be claimed by the Vie Manchester Printworks, which has 11m² more image area than the BFI IMAX in such aspect ratio.
The London IMAX is followed in size by:
The Vie Manchester Printworks IMAX. 26.3m by 18.8m with a total screen size of 495m² (289m² for a 2.39:1 film, 374m² for a 1.85:1 film). Seats 377.[8]
The Glasgow Science Centre IMAX. 25m by 18.9m with a total screen size of 472m² (262m² for a 2.39:1 film, 338m² for a 1.85:1 film). Seats 382.
The Empire, Leicester Square IMAX, London. 26.5m by 15.6m with a total screen size of 413m².(294m² for a 2.39:1 film, 380m² for a 1.85:1 film).Seats 728. It is currently the widest cinema screen in Britain. This screen sits back-to-back with the Super screen, 20.5m by 11m with a total screen size of 225.5m²
The London Science Museum IMAX. 24.3m by 16.8m with a total screen size of 408m² (247m² for a 2.39:1 film, 319m² for a 1.85:1 film).
The Cineworld IMAX, Leeds. 24m by 14m with a total screen size of 336m²
The National Science and Media Museum, Bradford. 20m by 16.5m with a total screen size of 330m² (167m² for a 2.39:1 film, 216m² for a 1.85:1 film). Seats 270.
Pepsi IMAX Cinema at the London Trocadero (closed in 1999) 19.8m by 15.8m with a total screen size of 313m² (164m² for a 2.39:1 film, 212m² for a 1.85:1 film). Seated 300.
The Giant Screen at Millennium Point, Birmingham (closed in 2015). 21.3m by 12.6 with a total screen size of 268m² (190m² for a 2.39:1 film, 245m² for a 1.85:1 film). Seats 385.
The Cineworld IMAX, Sheffield. 21.3m x 12m, total screen size of 255.6m². Seats 691. (Screen 7)
The Super screen at the Cineworld O2, London. 22m by 9.2m with a total screen size of 202m² (157m² for a 1.85:1 film). Seats 776 (Screen 11).[9][10][11]
The Odeon IMAX, Milton Keynes Stadium. 18.5m by 10.32m with a total screen size of 191m².(143m² for a 2.39:1 film, 185m² for a 1.85:1 film) Seats 387 [12]
The Extreme screen at Vie Westfield London, 18m by 10m with a total screen size of 180m².[13]
The Rheed Centre, Penrith Cumbria. 18m by 14.63m with a total screen size of 263.34 m2.(144m² for a 2.39:1 film) Seats 262 [14]
The Liverpool One Odeon IMAX, Liverpool. 17.99m x 9.76m for a total screen size of 176m². Seats 288[15]
The Cineworld IMAX, Nottingham. 18.9m x 9.1m, total screen size of 172m². Seats 425. (Screen 10) [16]
The Odeon IMAX, Cardiff. 16.8m by 7.9m for a total screen size of 133m² (118m² for a 2.39:1 film, 115m² for a 1.85:1 film). Seats 209.[17]
The Odeon IMAX, Kingston. 15.2m wide x 7.23m with a total screen size of 110m² (97m² for a 2.39:1 film, 97m² for a 1.85:1 film) Seats 428.
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We Explorer Another Abandoned Odeon Cinema!!
Another day, another Explorer and yes... Another Cinema! This one closed its doors in 2017. probably why there was still a lot of cool stuff left inside? Incredible it was build in 1929!!! And used to be a theatre back in its day! We spent a good few hours in here back in the summer this year (2019) Sit back and let us show you what we found in this incredible building!
STREATHAM ODEON
Nostalgic look at Britains love of ice cream instead of popcorn in cinemas - performed by Cuppa T
Odeon Warrington 1994 Final Night
Odeon Cinema Demolished Middlesbrough 2006
Coventry Theatre One cinema demolition
Brief video of part of the demolition of the old Theatre One Cinema in Coventry. Many knew it as Theatre One and the Alexandra and fondly nicknamed it the Flea Pit. It became a cinema in 1917 until 1999 when it became a nightclub. This soon folded and the building was left derelict for more than a decade. It was demolished to make way for student housing despite efforts by myself to get the building listed and transform it back into a cinema for the community. Very sad filming this.
Muswell Hill Odeon, 1930s - Film 19292
Two newsreels about the Odeon cinema at Muswell Hill. The Opening Night and First Birthday.
Odeon Grand Opening Night - Opening of Muswell Hill's new cinema. Long shot of cinema. crowds, Oscar Deutsch head of Odeon circuit - in black tie. Mayor of Hornsey, councillor J. Winkley J.P - outside cinema entrance - Deutsch and Mayor shake hands. Basil Rathbone - talking and smoking outside cinema.
Wolsey - famous comedian. Crowds laughing and waving. Actor Richard Barthelmess with his wife Jessica Stewart Sargent. Police struggling to keep crowds back. Joan Gardner (wife of Zoltan Korda), Derek De Maurier (?) and Hazel Chariot (?). Crowds enter the cinema.
Another film which is trailed with ‘And now the Odeon’s first birthday’ with guests arriving and a seemingly live commentary of who is there – includes Sabu.
Cliff Shows You around - Coventry Skydome Odeon Cinema Foyer
This was done quickly as the battery was running out. I am aware it does not seem very professional. It was done for foreigners to see inside a British cinema.
I only show the food area and where they tickets are bought, not the seating area where you watch films etc.
OVERNIGHT EXPLORATION OF BOURNEMOUTHS ODEON CINEMA
We travelled to Bournemouth to explore an abandoned massive Odeon cinema what at first we thought it was closed in the year 2000 to find out it closed much more recent
We find so much inside it's like they just got up and left saying that we don't think we was alone maybe some homeless people was staying inside we are not to sure but all in all a great overnight exploration....
HISTORY
ABC Cinemas was established in 1927 by solicitor John Maxwell[1] by merging three smaller Scottish cinema circuits. It became a wholly owned cinema subsidiary of British International Pictures when it was merged with the production arm of British National Studios, which had been formed by Maxwell in 1926.[2]
During the 1930s, it grew rapidly by acquisitions and an ambitious building programme under the direction of chief architect W.R.Glen, who had been appointed in about 1929[3] and maintained a distinct house style. Existing cinemas which could not be re-modelled were usually operated as separate circuits. In 1937, the parent company, BIP was renamed Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC). ABC also ran cinemas under the Ritz brand such as the Ritz Cinema, Muswell Hill.
After his death in 1940, his widow Catherine sold a large number of shares to Warner Brothers,[4] who eventually became the largest shareholders and able to exercise control, though ABPC was separately quoted on the London Stock Exchange. By 1945 it operated over 400 cinemas (usually called the Savoy or Regal) and was second only to Rank's Odeonand Gaumont chains. By the close of the 1950s ABC had started rebranding most cinemas as ABC and dropped names like Regal. Uk exhibition was characterised by alignments between distributors and exhibitors. ABC had access to Warner Brothers, MGM and its own ABPC productions, whereas rival Rank had 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Walt Disney, Columbia, Universal, United Artists and its own productions. Rival ABC, Odeon and Gaumont cinemas in a town showed their own releases and barred each other from showing the same film.
Television led to a sharp decline in cinema audiences after 1952 though with the coming of commercial television from 1955 ABPC had expanded into the new medium with the creation of ABC Television Limited, which gained the Independent Television contracts for the North of England and Midlands at the weekend. ABC-TV lost its franchises in 1968, and was merged with Rediffusion to become Thames Television.
As a result of the decline many suburban ABC theatres closed. Most of those remaining began, from the late 1950s to lose their individual names and were simply branded ABC. In 1959 Rank abandoned the separate Odeon and Gaumont release and put the best cinemas from each circuit onto a new Rank release. The remaining cinemas were given a new National release but this was unattractive to distributors and in 1961 Paramount switched to ABC after refusing a National release for the Dean Martin comedy All in a Night's Work. The National release soon ended entirely and there were in future just ABC and Odeon release patterns. In 1967, Seven Arts, the new owners of Warner, decided to dispose of its holdings in ABPC and subsequently EMI launched a successful take-over bid for the company. Associated British Picture Corporation was later to be renamed Thorn-EMI Screen Entertainment Ltd, although the cinema chain retained its name. In 1986, this was later divested by EMI to the Australian businessman Alan Bond who sold the chain a few days later to the Golan & Globus Cannon Cinemas Group for a reported £50 million profit in seven days. EMI retained ABPC's lucrative television interests. Eventually, the advent of largely American owned multiplexes led to the end of barring and the old distributor alignments, which had in any case been rendered largely irrelevant by cinema closures often leaving only one cinema in a town, which had access to all films but usually had to give precedence to its traditional alignment (so an Odeon might have a poor Rank release in its biggest screen and a big ABC release in a small cinema and vice versa).
The Art Deco Odeon Cinema in Weston Super Mare in Somerset England
The Virtual Tourist walks around the Art Deco Odeon Cinema in Weston Super Mare in Somerset England
FRIENDS - Vision & Values
So no one told you life was gonna be this way! Except, our jobs aren't jokes!
See if you can spot all the different jobs our Cinema Hosts and Managers do to display our 6 values!
Bradford old Odeon for sale?!?
Bradford Odeon Rescue Group (BORG) prove in this video that Yorkshire Forward's Jan Anderson and Bradford Council's Kris Hopkins did say at a public meeting that they would sell the Odeon to a developer who was prepared to restore and re-use the existing building.
Now is the time for them to live up to their promises.
Coventry Theatre One cinema demolition September 2014
Not great quality but it looked better on the camera during filming. This shows the demolition of part of the main upper auditorium of Coventry's old Theatre One cinema.The 125 year old building was cleared to make way for student housing in September 14.
A Guests Experience in Region A - A video for Odeon
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We finally got to do it
Abandoned ODEON Cinema with 1930's Original Features!
So guys, after exploring the ABC cinema, we had to go to the ODEON! I have got to say, I am definitely glad that we did.
We managed to find some of the original features from when it was the Regent Theater back in the early 1900's!
Not only that, we were joined by some brilliant people too!
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