Odeon Liverpool

London Road and Pudsey Street,
Liverpool, L3 5NF

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drguywalker on June 27, 2008 at 9:53 am

The decorative features weren’t ‘destroyed’ in 1968 – they had reached the end of their design life (of about thirty years) and were replaced with something that looked modern and up to date for the 60’s (something that couldn’t be said for the faded and, in 1968, desperately unfashionable art deco interior). Note that the new Liverpool Twins were purpose designed for widescreen presentation (unlike the original), had state of the art projection and sound equipment,opened with a bigger ceremony than in 1934, were featured in Interior Design magazine and won a prestigeous award in the Motion Picture Herald. Now, whether you prefer Art Deco (i.e. decorative modernism) or merely modernism (in the 60’s idiom) is a matter of taste, not fact. The ‘fact’ is, the 1960’s modernisation was just as much ‘designed’ and just as much about ‘quality’ as what it replaced. Indeed, two generations of cinema goers remember this as ‘cinema’ and they rather liked it…what a shame the dominant dialogue in cinema history denies them their nostalgia!!

Davell on May 26, 2008 at 9:49 am

When the Odeon in London Road Liverpool was a Paramount theatre it was equipped with Simplex projectors.When it became Odeon, Kalee 21s were in use. When it became a 70mm house, Philips DP70s were employed. Today the ten screen cinema uses Cinemeccanica equipment.