Cinema dei Piccoli

lostmemory on December 28, 2006 at 2:43 pm

The Cinema dei Piccoli is in the Guinness record book as being the “Smallest Purpose-Built Cinema in Operation”. This cinema has 63 seats and its original name was Topolino Cinema. This comes from the Guinness website:

“The Cinema dei Piccoli was built by Alfredo Annibali (Italy) in 1934 in the park of Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy and today covers an area of 71.52 m² (769.83 ft²). Originally called the Topolino Cinema (after Mickey Mouse), the cinema used a Path-Baby 9.5 mm movie projector, bed sheets for the screen and played 78’s for background music. Restored in 1991, the cinema has 63 seats, a 5 x 2.5 m (16.4 x 8,2 ft) screen, stereo sound and air-conditioning”.

This is a link to the Guinness website.