Odeon Oxford, George Street
George Street,
Oxford,
OX1 2BL
George Street,
Oxford,
OX1 2BL
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Plans granted for apartment hotel/community facility.
The seating capacities in the overview at the top of this page need updating, the current numbers (directly taken from Odeon’s website) are:
Screen 1 – 187 seats
Screen 2 – 187 seats
Screen 3 – 84 seats
Screen 4 – 109 seats
Screen 5 – 187 seats
Screen 6 – 108 seats
All auditoria contain Premier seats situated in the middle of the auditorium.
Recall seeing a Superman triple-bill in the old, much larger, screen 3 many years ago. Back in the days when you queued around the block to purchase tickets from the box office on either side of the front foyer immediately prior to the performance you were attending. It had a relatively large curved screen plus curtain tabs. Screens 2 & 3 were very small and even as a child seemed not much bigger than a home projector screen!
Although the exterior is in good shape the interior is a typically botched Odeon conversion with sound bleeds from the circle minis into the cinemas below…avoid !!
Still open in 2010. A shot from 1986 here:–
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stagedoor/5208169811/
There seems to be a stage and extensive dressing room accommodation at the rear in this shot.
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type 38 in the page box
or if link does not work, then google search exactly:
Boxoffice June 23, 1951
type 38 in the page box
for article & photo of a model of this theater
The entrance photographed as the MGM in 1995:
http://flickr.com/photos/yellowsummer/2517175231/
exterior shots from 2007
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/460560097/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/460560069/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/460560031/
and 2005
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/61976983/
the lease runs out on the building later this year and the site is scheduled for demolition to be replaced by shops, a huge shame as its a great deco exterior