Theatres · West Midlands
Kinema Theatre
Kinema Theatre in England West Midlands, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 2 h–3 h
About
Kinema Theatre is a cinema or movie theatre in England West Midlands, United Kingdom. Britain's listed cinemas span Edwardian picture palaces, Art Deco super-cinemas of the 1930s, and the surviving independent neighbourhood houses.
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From the Wikipedia article
Kinema Theatre, later Tally's Kinema, Criterion Theater, Fox Criterion, Tally's Criterion, and Grand International, was a movie theater located at 640 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. At one point a top theater in the city, it was demolished in 1941.
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Background
History
Kinema Theater was designed by William J. Dodd for Emil Kehrlein. This theater, Kehrlein's third and largest, had a capacity of 2,400 and was considered "one of the most ambitious theaters on the Coast dedicated exclusively to motion pictures." It opened on December 15, 1917 with a screening of The Woman God Forgot and director Cecil B. DeMille in attendance. In 1921, the theater underwent a $150,000 remodel. West Coast Theaters bought the theater in 1923, after which it was gutted, redesigned in a Byzantine Revival style, renamed Criterion Theatre, and reduced in capacity to 1,800. It reopened on September 26, 1923 with the world premiere of Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris. Fox West…
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- Coordinates
- 52.4476, -2.2280
- Address
- 640 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
- Established
- 1917
- Official site
- www.kinver-miniature-railway.co.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q41557773 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Kinema Theatre (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Kinema Theatre?
- Kinema Theatre is in the West Midlands, United Kingdom.
- When was Kinema Theatre built?
- Built or established in 1917.
- Who owns Kinema Theatre?
- Kinema Theatre is owned by | screens = 1.