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Home » Theater Guide » Location » Mexico » Mexico City » Cine Encanto

Cine Encanto

Mexico City, Mexico
Avenida Serapio Rendon 87
, Mexico City, Mexico
(map)
Status: Closed
Screens: Single Screen
Style: Art Moderne
Function: Storage
Seats: 4000
Chain: Unknown
Architect: Francisco J. Serrano
Firm: Unknown
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Mexico City probably had more jumbo cinemas than any other metropolis in the world. Opening in the midst of the Depression on 5th May 1937 with "Ayudame a vivir y El cazador blanco"(Help Me To Live, I'm A White Hunter), the modernistic Cine Encanto had 4,000 seats, with 2,000 on the ground floor and the rest in two steep balconies.

It suffered damage in an earthquake in 1957 and today the building is used as a storage warehouse.
Contributed by Warren G. Harris, Ken Roe

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To permit so many seats, the auditorium gradually widened from the front to the rear of the house. This view, copied from a 1937 trade journal, was taken from the second balcony, in so-called "nosebleed heaven." Mexico City itself could cause nosebleeds, due to its high altitude: www.i8.photobucket.com/albums/a18/Warrengwhiz/encanto01.jpg
posted by Warren G. Harris on Nov 9, 2007 at 7:02am
I think the business listed here is in the theater building:
http://tinyurl.com/2tgxcu
posted by ken mc on Nov 9, 2007 at 9:24am
Here's a night view of Cine Encanto's spectacular exterior signage. The current attraction was 20th-Fox's 1937 remake of "Seventh Heaven," starring Simone Simon and James Stewart:
www.i8.photobucket.com/albums/a18/Warrengwhiz/encanto02.jpg
posted by Warren G. Harris on Nov 16, 2007 at 7:24am
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