Cinema Galeries

Koninginnegalerij, Galerie de la Reine 26,
Brussels 1000

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HowardBHaas
HowardBHaas on June 6, 2009 at 6:53 pm

2008 photo of one of the auditoriums, facing screen:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smmot/2698766289/

HowardBHaas
HowardBHaas on June 6, 2009 at 6:46 pm

Photo taken this month of larger auditorium facing the curtained screen:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sblackley/3524961472/

irishcine
irishcine on October 27, 2008 at 2:44 am

The first public showing of the Lumiere process in Belgium was indeed held in a theatre in this indoor gallery, but not as the earlier poster says, at the current location of the Arenberg, but elsewhere. This was on 1 March 1896, not 1895.

cinebxl
cinebxl on October 27, 2008 at 1:48 am

The first film was not shown in that cinema, but in the same gallery.The premises where those of a newspaper called “La Chronique”.
The cinema was first called Galeries (1939-1987).Then Arenberg-Galeries (1987-2006) and from
april 2006 : Arenberg