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BBFC Search Film					The Odeon started life as one of the seven great Paramount Theatres, built by Paramount Pictures Inc. in the UK. With a full stage, a Compton organ, with 2,670 seats in stalls and balcony, the Paramount It opened on 15th October 1934. It was the largest cinema in the Merseyside area and cost £240,000 to construct. It was taken over by Odeon in 1942 taking the Odeon name The art deco decorative features were entirely destroyed in 1968 when the cinema was twinned. Seating 989 in screen 1 with 1,400 in the Screen 2. The Odeon eventually ended up with 10 screens. The Odeon was closed on 30th September 2008, being replaced the following day by a purpose built 14-screen Odeon multiplex in the Liverpool ONE centre, located on Paradise Street in the city centre.
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Cinema Technology		Opened on 16th September 1912, the Lime Street Picture House was a very upmarket city centre cinema with a tiled Edwardian facade and 1,029 seats in the stalls and circle. It was re-named City Picture House from 14th August 1916. In 1920 the City Picture House was renamed the Futurist Cinema, a name the closed and derelict building still bears. In May 1954 Twentieth Century Fox took over the cinema as their Cinemascope venue in the city and it was equipped with a large screen, re-opening on 20th May 1954 with Tyrone Power in "King of the Khyber Rifles". In 1960, the Futurist was acquired by ABC and was equipped with 70mm/Todd-AO, re-opening on 10th July 1960 with "Oklahoma" which ran for 20 weeks.
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		The Futurist Cinema closed on 17th July 1982
					Philip DP70 Odeon 1 L'pool Now Closed








					Odeon1 L'pool Auditorium Now Closed

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							Designed by Messrs Taliesin Rees, & Holt and opened for Provincial Cinematograph Theatres in April 1922. The Trocadero was a particularly lavish and unusual cinema. Either side of the proscenium arch were an additional stage(s), about half the width of the main stage, on which beautiful scenes were created and were illuminated during the intervals. There was a single balcony and a particularly wide barrel vaulted ceiling. Elegantly restrained plasterwork decorated the balcony front, the ceiling and walls., In 1950 the cinema was taken over by and renamed Gaumont. The unique three stages disappeared in 1954 when Cinemascope was installed. However after Gaumont were taken over by Rank (Odeon), the importance of this venue diminished and later when the Odeon was twinned then quadrupled. The Gaumont closed in May 1974. Eventually it was demolished. You can still walk on the footprint and pick up marble stones laying on the ground
		Futurist Philip's DP70's after the 1960 install










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		70mm film on the platter at the Futurist			Gaumont Kalee 21 projector

		Futurist stage, minus the screen showing all 5 screen speakers

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