It did not matter that Chermayeff was a Harrow-educated designer of great taste and ability, nor that Mendelsohn was one of the greatest living European architects. They were foreigners who had taken jobs from our boys. There are other listed former Odeons up and down the country, but these have met the fate of so many British cinemas: they either stand empty, or have been turned into bingo halls.
Others — Dudley, Luton and Woolwich — are churches. The Odeon chain flashed into life and burned out quickly. Always sickly, but intelligent and quick, this tiny man was dead at He was generous and sentimental — staff were offered interest free loans when they got into debt. His acts of everyday kindness were legion. Deutsch also worked around the clock.
He had to: there was no other way so many new cinemas of such quality could be built in such a short space of time. The business was nurtured in Birmingham, but required Deutsch to travel the country and make frequent trips to London. He travelled on the new two-hour trains from New Street to Euston in the late s with a team of secretaries and assistants.
Telegrams would be typed as soon as the train steamed across the points at Birmingham; as the express slowed for Coventry, bundles of telegrams, letters and other instructions would be chucked from the train, to be picked up and dealt with by station staff. Such a thing would be impossible today, with station staff much rarer than grand cinemas. A latter-day Deutsch would be one of those men constantly on his mobile phone, driving everyone else mad.
The cinema-opening pace accelerated after Deutsch met the architect Harry Weedon in It was the start of a prolific partnership. They opened five new cinemas in , and 16 the year after. Another 33 opened in — and the same again in Weedon expanded his team of six staff into an office employing Turnarounds were fast. Speaking to Allen Eyles of Focus on Film in , key lieutenant Robert Bullivant recalled a 9pm phone call from Weedon asking him to visit a site in Falmouth immediately.
Bullivant drove miles through the night and met someone the following day at 11am. Within three weeks, plans for the scheme had been approved; less than a year later, the Odeon Falmouth was open. For many of the towns and cities around the Midlands and along the south coast, where most were built, they were the most exciting and modern pieces of architecture in the area. This was Odeon at its zenith and its signature styles became well known.
Faience, a material that remained unblemished by the smoke and smog of industrial towns, was employed in tandem with rounded corners to complete a streamlined finish.
A vertical feature, sometimes used for advertising, was another trademark element. Left: entrance foyer to Chingford Mount Odeon, circa Right: auditorium of Surbiton Odeon, circa Both were demolished. Opening programmes were published that would laud the design of each new cinema and go into some detail on the architecture and the architect behind them. In , the entire British cinema industry sold 54m tickets.
The Odeon Falmouth closed in and was demolished six years later. Bradford City Council have plans to demolish the art-deco building and replace it with a new complex of shops and offices. Campaigners have made seven separate attempts to have the building listed, all of which have been rejected.
Odeon has now acquired at least 10 cinemas in Italy , making Odeon officially the largest cinema chain in Europe and third in the world. For an extended period the Odeon cinema listings website was accessible only to Microsoft license-holders running certain versions of Internet Explorer , a design decision which frustrated many, and allegedly contravened the Disability Discrimination Act.
Technologist Matthew Somerville attempted to draw the public's attention to Odeon's dismissal of his concerns, and prove that there were no technical obstacles to providing a more usable alternative design. His 'Accessible Odeon' harvested information from the company's website and redelivered it using established web standards, also making it possible for non-Microsoft browsers to submit online bookings. His site received wide coverage and acclaim in UK newspapers and across the web. Odeon initially took a public stance which accepted his contribution, and promised not to seek closure of the site.
However, In June , Odeon demanded that Somerville remove the facility provided to users of non Microsoft software to book films online, threatening copyright and trade mark infringement and suggesting that criminal proceedings could be brought under the Data Protection Act. Finally they insisted that unless the site be removed altogether, legal action would be taken. Somerville complied and shut down the site. In , Odeon made a controversial move by refusing to screen Rambo film on any of its UK screens, blaming it on "commercial differences".
In Odeon and a couple of other multiplex cinema chains attempted to boycott Tim Burton 's Alice in Wonderland film , but after negotiations with Disney, Odeon and the other cinema chains backed down. Wikimedia Foundation. Odeon Leicester Square — during screening of Casino Royale in Still largely intact and retaining its… … Wikipedia. Three cinemas occupied this site.
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