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Home » Theater Guide » Location » Malaysia » Kuala Lumpur » Odeon Theatre

Odeon Theatre

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Status: Open
Screens: Single Screen
Style: Art Deco
Function: Movies (East Indian), Shopping Center
Seats: Unknown
Chain: Independent
Architect: Unknown
Firm: Unknown
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Built by the Cathay Organization in 1936, the Odeon Cinema was an expression of the links between the innovations of cinematography and Art Deco.

AO Coltman was the architect and Steen Sehested prepared the reinforced concrete design. The building featured new safety designs such as emergency lighting and fire prevention systems for the projector room. State-of-the-art ventilation grills and exhaust fans enhanced air circulation. The foyers were laid with locally produced rubber flooring.

There are strong Art Deco elements such as the lettering style of the cinema name, vertical pylons and flagpoles. Above the entrance, a horizontal beam, embellished with a mosaic depicting drama, comedy and music, intersects the strong vertical mullions. On the side façade, 'ribs' create a vertical rhythm.

Odeon Cinema operated as a movie theater until November 1997 and is now an arcade selling clothes, magazines, electronic goods and snacks.

---excerpt from Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman Heritage Trail - Badan Warisan website http://www.badanwarisan.org.my/projects/trails/jalan_tar/trail10.html
Contributed by Augustine Heng

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While the stalls section of Odeon cinema is now an arcade, the dress circle remain as a cinema, showing only Indian and Malay movies
posted by basherfive2 on Jun 24, 2002 at 2:20pm
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