Sujet

Empire Cinema, Leicester Square, City of Westminster, London, 1986. Creator: Norman Walley.

Légende

Empire Cinema, Leicester Square, City of Westminster, London, 1986. The auditorium of Screen 1 in the Empire Cinema. The Empire Theatre first opened in 1884 and was designed by Thomas Verity. Its facade, entrance and auditorium were redeveloped in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Between 1928 and 1961, the auditorium had 3300 seats. After 1962, when the interior was redesigned by George Coles, the former stalls became a dance hall, later a casino. In the 1980s the cinema was converted into three screens: the original Screen 1 could seat 1330 people, the adjacent Ritz Cinema became Screen 2, and an area off the foyer was use as Screen 3. Screen 1 was subdivided in the early 21st century.

Date

1986

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Notre référence

HRM22A18_153

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

57,8Mo (2,7Mo) / 46,6cm x 31,1cm / 5505 x 3668 (300dpi)

Mots clés

leisure building London England interior square architecture country entertainment British English film color colourful lighting seating screen seats seat cinema curtain Westminster location century movie Britain inside auditorium furniture West End moving picture leicester square Sixties Eighties Colour cinematography Indoors 1980s 1960s 20th century City of Westminster decade Empire cinema TGN photograph George George Coles Coles two seater soft furnishing Historic England Norman Walley Walley Norman