Premiere of Paris Cinema...(30/6)

The avant-premiere of an opening film, l'avion, directed by Cedric Kahn was played at Grand Rex this evening. This was one of the programmes of the Paris Cinema. The screening venue, Grand Rex, is actually an impressive cinema with spacious seats and lovely statues. It possesses the features and sense of old-style grand cinema - an art-deco facade, classic cinema chairs, nicely installed cinema lighting and enhanced accoustic features, a buffer zone outside the screening room and the outside roads, a transition space for a separation of reality and virtuality - a classic design of true fantasy for cinema audience inevitably. The salle was first opened on Dec 8, 1932, and it has been a landmark on Boulevard Poissonnière since then. The design and construction work was managed by Bluyssen, the architect of the cinema as well as the US engineer, John Eberson in 1930. The cinema can now accommodate 2,800 audience. Again, this is just another evidence of the history of film in the city.
On Oct 5, 1981, the building was inscribed to be historical structure by the Ministère de la Culture.