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Odeon, Kingstanding
The Odeon at Kingstanding, Birmingham, was a 1930s cinema in the Odeon chain. Though closed as a cinema in 1962, the building survives as a bingo hall, and is Grade II listed.
== History ==
The cinema was constructed between 1935 and 1936 to a symmetrical, modernist, art deco design by Harry Weedon and Cecil Clavering,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Odeon Cinema Kingstanding, Birmingham )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Odeon Kingstanding in Birmingham, GB )〕 the latter having joined the former's practice, as an assistant, in 1933. It was commissioned as an independent cinema, and was due to be called "The Beacon",〔 after nearby Barr Beacon, but Oscar Deutsch became involved, and the cinema opened as part of his Odeon chain on 22 July 1935.〔 It was built to serve Kingstanding's new, 4,000-home working-class housing estate and had 968 seats in the stalls and 324 in the circle. The first film was ''The Lives of a Bengal Lancer'', starring Gary Cooper.〔
The brick building〔 occupies a wedge-shaped site between Kings Road and Kettlehouse Road, overlooking and facing Kingstanding Circle. The centre of the glazed cream and black tile ("''faience''") frontage features three slender fins, also finished with faience, above a stepped brick parapet.〔 Clavering, inspired by the Lichtburg cinema in Berlin, originally intended that these fins would be topped by a searchlight.〔Allen Eyles, ''Odeon Cinemas'', 2 volumes, volume 1: ''Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation'', London: Cinema Theatre Association, British Film Institute, 2002, ISBN 978-0-85170-813-3, (p. 57 ).〕〔Richard Gray, ''Cinemas in Britain: One Hundred Years of Cinema Architecture'', London: Lund Humphries, 1996, ISBN 978-0-85331-685-5, p. 92: "The original idea was for a searchlight to be mounted on the fins which would scan the night sky, like at the Lichtburg in Berlin. This idea was dropped when Deutsch took over (cinema )".〕
The cinema closed on 1 December 1962, the final film being ''To Hell and Back'', starring Audie Murphy.〔
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