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Mayfair Theatre, Kaikōura The Mayfair Theatre is an art deco building on the Esplanade that was first opened in 1935 as a venue for cinema and concerts. In 1985, the building was put up for sale and by 1986, it had been purchased for the town as a result of a community fundraising initiative.
The Mayfair cancelled a planned showing of Videodrome in April 1983 when police threatened the theatre with obscenity charges. [6] A handful of citizens, including Maude Barlow , objected to the violent content of the film which was approved by the Ontario Board of Censors and was previously shown without incident in Nepean, Ontario .
Mayfair Music Hall, also known as Mayfair Theatre, a former vaudeville theater in Santa Monica, California, opened 1913; Mayfair Theatre, Baltimore, a vacant theater structure in Baltimore, opened in 1941; Mayfair Theatre, Dunedin, a live performance venue in Dunedin, New Zealand, opened 1914; Mayfair Theatre, Ottawa, the oldest active movie ...
Curzon Cinemas were established in 1934 when Harold Wingate, who imported unknown films during the post World War I period, opened the first cinema in Mayfair. The second location, Curzon Bloomsbury, opened in 1972. In 1976 Curzon Artificial Eye, the film distribution company was launched.
His movie Smash Cut was released in 2009 after post-production from July 2008. He is also the host of the weekly Ottawa film talk radio program Drunken Master Revue on CKCU-FM . He also presents "Saturday Night Sinema", which is a monthly showcase of rare or classic cult film prints at the Mayfair Theatre .
The Curzon Mayfair Cinema is a Grade II listed building at 37–38 Curzon Street, London W1, built in 1963–66 by H. G. Hammond for Sir John Burnet, Tait and Partners, architects. [ 1 ] Historic England have described it as "the finest surviving cinema building of the post-war period, it is also the least altered."
On the outside the facade was modernized with a new triangular marquee and a new improved box office counter in between the two outer doors leading into the main lobby. The 850 seat building reopened as the re-branded Mayfair Theatre on January 31, 1941 with the movie A Night at Earl Carroll's starring Ken Murray. By 1960 it had been equipped ...
[9] [10] Russell Patterson renovated the basement into the Mayfair Theatre, a 299-seat off-Broadway venue. [ 7 ] [ 11 ] A skating rink was removed from the space and a 56-foot-wide (17 m) stage was installed, an unusually wide stage for an off-Broadway venue; the stage's width could be reduced to 26 feet (7.9 m) for intimate productions. [ 7 ]