Cinema Paris

Situated on a corner site on the ground floor of an office building that is the ‘Maison de France’, the former offices of the French allies after World War II. The space was converted into a cinema and opened in 1950 seating 450 in orchestra and balcony levels. The architect was Hans Semrau who created a rather plain, but attractive auditorium. The top of the proscenium and side-walls has a deep cove which contains concealed lighting and there are decorative light fittings on the lower section of the side-walls. The cinema is currently equipped to play both 16mm and 35mm film and has a Dolby SRD sound system. It’s programme usually is made up of French films. The current seating capacity is 425.

The office space at the rear is still used by Maison de France (diplomatic and arts departments) and a French reference library occupies the remainder of the ground floor.

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Ken Roe on May 2, 2007 at 8:00 pm

A 2006 exterior photograph of the Cinema Paris:
http://flickr.com/photos/anacoreta/162479595/

kinokompendium.de on June 30, 2007 at 4:03 pm

More infos and photographs on this theater (and many others) can be found on the German language only Berlin Movie Theater Guide – www.kinokompendium.de: Cinema Paris

woody on April 28, 2009 at 10:42 pm

april 2009 photos
exterior
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3484495466/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3483690145/
lobby
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3484499054/
auditorium photo on display in the lobby window
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3484507420/

HowardBHaas on July 24, 2012 at 3:09 pm

Article with photo of auditorium http://www.screenafrica.com/page/news/displays-n-monitoring/1317644-New-projection-system-old-cinema

Koistinen on December 21, 2014 at 9:44 am

Exterior photos from July 2013.