Everyman Muswell Hill

The outside and outside of this theatre was seen the documentary “Dalekmania” in the extras section on the DVD' and Blu-ray’s of “Doctor Who and the Daleks” and “Daleks invasion Earth 2150 Ad”.

I see from the photo that Screen 1 has movable side masking.

Are all the screens Scope ?

this fully refurbished cinema opens two new screens this Friday in the rear balcony section, bringing the total to five

New refurbished pic of Screen 1 added

The two screens below the circle are now closed for refurbishment.I hope the front stalls area is re-instated as happened at Rex Berkhamstead and St Albans Odyssey.

Beautiful art deco moderne theatre. Timeless and less is more.

My guess is that the balcony will be re configured to provide around 300 seats and the stalls will be reinstated possibly with a bar at the rear along the lines of The Screen on the Green with table seating in the remainder of the stalls, with the two screens beneath the cirlce being upgraded to luxury boutique cinemas enabling a variety of programming.Everyman have not tampered with their cinema in Oxted and I think they will do an excellent job on the Muswell Hill site.

I quite agree that the circuits should ‘take a leaf out of the book’ of venues such as those mentioned but the USA influenced consortia who run the likes of Odeon would, no doubt, consider themselves to be above doing this and will therefore continue to disregard good taste………..

I visited yesterday and was appalled to see the stalls now being used to store general junk. There was even an old coffee machine on its side and on view to anyone in the circle who cared to look.

The stalls could easily seat 100 or more still – despite the rear being closed off. Why doesn’t Odeon ever use any imagination with their old buildings? Seeing films in Screen 1 could really be made an event if anybody had any enthusiasm to do so. Can’t Odeon learn from success stories like the Regal in Evesham, the Rex and the Ritzy in Brixton. Odeon seems under the impression that it can only cater for the IMAX enthusiasts or nothing.

People will pay money to see films in special places IF they are cared for with enthusiasm and marketed with some degree of imagination.

A wonderful surviver. A close friend and colleague of mine, Steve Gaunt, was the Odeon’s manager from 1970. On my first visit, all three lighting coves on the splay walls were in use and each had coloured bulbs – one had red bulbs, one blue and one green. Now coloured bulbs in blue and green provide a poor, greyish light, unlike colour filters. I got Steve to order sufficient bulbs in pink and amber and later, the projectionists were only too happy to replace the green and blue versions. The result was a brighter and warmer glow nearest the proscenium, a golden amber glow in the middle section and the original red nearest the balcony. The vertical glow was slightly shorter in each cove with the highest being that closest to the proscenium. The curtains at that time were plain, brown velvet so, using newly ordered Cinemoid colour gel, we replaced the blue and green circuits with deep golden amber and magenta. Leaving the red circuit alone, the new colours were far more effective on the non-reflective tabs. I was especially gratified when the tabs were briefly closed between the trailers and the main feature at every performance and the projectionists invariably just brought up the magenta footlights; in an otherwise darkened auditorium the moving tabs looked very opulent.

Large gallery of interior pics from our visit in March 2007 here:

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