Cinerama (Rotterdam)

Cinerama
Cinerama
	Cinerama from outside
Alternative names	Kinepolis Cinerama
General information
Status	cinema
Type	Cinema
Address	Westblaak 18, Rotterdam
Coordinates	51°55′01″N 4°28′44″E / 51.917044°N 4.478859°E
Opened	1960
Owner	Kinepolis Group
Other information
Seating capacity	Screen 1: 291
Website
	cineramabios.nl

Cinerama is a cinema in central Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It started in 1960 and was rebuilt in the 1980s.^[1] It has seven screens and is owned by the Kinepolis Group.^[2]

The cinema screens both arthouse and mainstream films. It also hosts a variety of festival screenings such as Arab Cinema, IFFR and the Wildlife Film Festival.^[3]^[4]

History

Cinerama was opened in July 1960, occupying the site of the former Scala cinema, which had gone bankrupt after just three years. It was named after the Cinerama projection system. The first film screened was This Is Cinerama (1952).^[1]

Capacity

The current capacity for the seven screens are as follows:^[2]

Screen 1 - 291
Screen 2 - 123
Screen 3 - 123
Screen 4 - 88
Screen 5 - 145
Screen 6 - 145
Screen 7 - 67

References

^ ^a ^b "Cinerama Rotterdam (1960 – heden)". Bioscoopgeschiedenis. Rotterdam. Archived from the original on 2019-03-24. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
^ ^a ^b "Cinerama Rotterdam". Kineopolis. Rotterdam. Archived from the original on 2019-05-03. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
^ van der Gaag, Salwa (2017-08-12). "Arab Film Festival terug in Rotterdam". AD. Rotterdam. Archived from the original on 2019-03-25. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
^ Hokke, Natascha (2015-09-15). "De mooiste natuurfilms tijdens Wildlife Film Festival Rotterdam". Natuur Monumenten. Rotterdam. Archived from the original on 2019-03-24. Retrieved 2019-03-21.