CONVERGENCE
07-29-2008, 06:57 PM
I thought I would post this , This theater is still up and operating.
The main sound system is VITAVOX and not Altec A-4 as is often reported
on web sites. It makes Altec speakers look like a cheap company.
Here is the link to the truth about the Odeon Bouremouth England.
Odeon 1 is now the last unsubdivided 'roadshow' house from the era of Rank's sixties twinning projects. It's also the last original un-subdivivided 'cinerama' auditorium in the country. The auditorium is almost circular and the end wall is deeply curved with huge gold glass fibre curtains and red/blue/yellow ceiling rim lighting. Completing the authentic sixties experience is the brown and gold painted stippled plaster and, I kid you not, the original Vitavox loudspeakers. If this cinema were a car it would be called 'a future classic' - catch it while you can, particularly from the front row where a little bit of the cinerama experience lives on...
http://cinematreasures.org/theater/20081/
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The main sound system is VITAVOX and not Altec A-4 as is often reported
on web sites. It makes Altec speakers look like a cheap company.
Here is the link to the truth about the Odeon Bouremouth England.
Odeon 1 is now the last unsubdivided 'roadshow' house from the era of Rank's sixties twinning projects. It's also the last original un-subdivivided 'cinerama' auditorium in the country. The auditorium is almost circular and the end wall is deeply curved with huge gold glass fibre curtains and red/blue/yellow ceiling rim lighting. Completing the authentic sixties experience is the brown and gold painted stippled plaster and, I kid you not, the original Vitavox loudspeakers. If this cinema were a car it would be called 'a future classic' - catch it while you can, particularly from the front row where a little bit of the cinerama experience lives on...
http://cinematreasures.org/theater/20081/
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