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By then Oxford had several cinemas, including the Electric Theatre in Castle Street and the Oxford Picture Palace in Jeune Street. The cinema changed hands several times in its early years. Proprietors included Hubert Thomas Lambert (1917–20), CW Poole's Entertainments (1920–23), Walshaw Enterprises (1923–25), Ben Jay (1925–27), J ...
Frank Stuart opened Oxford's first cinema, the Electric Theatre, in Castle Street, in 1910. He was the licensee of the Elm Tree pub on the corner of Cowley Road and Jeune Street. Also in 1910 work started to build Stuart's second cinema on land in Jeune Street behind the Elm Tree. It opened on 24 February 1911 as the Oxford Picture Palace. [2]
In the late 1980s and early 1990s it was an important part of the local and national music scene that spawned Ride, Radiohead and Supergrass. As for the cinema, it opened in 1913 showing 'accompanied' silent films under a “North Oxford Kinema” banner.
The Phoenix Cinema is an independent single-screen community cinema in East Finchley, London, England. It was built in 1910 and opened in 1912 as the East Finchley Picturedrome . It is one of the oldest continuously-running cinemas in the UK and shows mainly art-house films.
Notable non-residential buildings include the Oxford Hall, Octoraro Hotel, Oxford Station (Borough Hall), Dickey Building, Masonic Building, Fulton Bank Building (1925), Gibson's Store (c. 1832), Orthodox Friends Meeting House, Methodist Church (1885), United Presbyterian Church (1893), and the Oxford Grain & Hay Company granary (1880).
Phoenix Pictures is an American independent film production company that has produced films since the mid to late 1990s with features including The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), The Thin Red Line (1998), Zodiac (2007), Black Swan (2010), and Shutter Island (2010).
Phoenix Theatre (New York City), an off-Broadway theatre (1953–1982) Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis), a professional alternative theatre; Phoenix Theatre (Phoenix), a regional theatre; Phoenix Theater, an all-ages club in Petaluma, California
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