Rav-Chen Cinema

Rani on March 23, 2008 at 7:14 pm

The following link shows the Chen Cinema in the early 1950’s, a short time after it opened as a huge single screen cinema. As a child in the late 60’s I saw many Disney movies over there as the parent company also had (and still has) the Israeli distribution rights for Disney. I remeber seeing there, with my parents “The Jungle Book” and “Mary Poppins”, also “Olivier!”, and later on “Grease”, “2001: A Space Odyssey” (in 70mm) and “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” which was the last film to be shown there before it was divided into 6 screens. Now, as a six screener it is still one of the best cinemas in the country, especially the very big Screen 1 which is almost identical to the old cinema minus the circle. The screen kept it’s original size, and so seeing a movie in Chen 1 is still an expirience. They also have one of the best sound systems.

And here it is, as it was in the early 50’s:

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