Queen's Cinerama Theatre

Northumberland Place,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1

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NThomson
NThomson on July 29, 2011 at 12:01 pm

Hope you all enjoy the two photos which I`ve uploaded from my personal collection of the Queens Cinema…

RafBoyMacham
RafBoyMacham on July 19, 2011 at 7:16 am

I would just like to second the comments made by N Thomson. As a youngster I saw all the original 3 strip cinerama films and I was so impressed that I made a point of travelling over from Sunderland every time a new widescreen film came out. 2001 a space oddesy was fantastic albeit in 70 mm. I think the sound quality in this theatre was second to none and blows the socks off the latest compressed gimmicky sound you get these days in the “cubicles”. Cinerama still lives if you can make a trip to Bradford media museum. They are shown on the first saturday of each month. Fill your nostalgia boots folks. Queens Theatre, forever in my heart!

NThomson
NThomson on September 25, 2010 at 2:13 pm

I began my working life as a projectionist here back in 1974,
before been transferred to the odeon in pilgrim street….
I dont think we will ever see a giant screen like it again... During a 70mm screening, there was nothing to compare it.... Picture and Sound quality were outstanding.... Screen size:- 75 x 31`.
I will remember the Queens with great affection….

CSWalczak
CSWalczak on May 17, 2010 at 12:04 am

This site has a number of pictures of this theater over the years: View link

eceleticandveryinspired
eceleticandveryinspired on March 21, 2010 at 5:39 am

Outstanding colour interior shot here:

View link

Reminds me of the Astoria cinema charing cross road London in the late 1960s

drno
drno on September 20, 2009 at 9:06 am

This was an awesome cinema and sadly we will never see anything like it in the North East again. I remember going with my parents to see the remake of Lost Horizon there and feeling slightly dissapointed as they showed the trailer for Live And Let Die which was playing at the Odeon – ‘'why could'nt I watch that instead of this musical rubbish’‘ I asked of my parents ? – despite this dissapointment I could appreciate the grandeur and scale of the cinema.

I did visit the Queens before it closed to see the cartoon version of Lord Of The Rings – I was really impressed with the epic showmanship that the Queens was capable of – If only it was still around when Peter Jackson’s trilogy was released – Now that would
have been something !

Sadly missed and thanks for listing this forgotten classic of a cinema – Thank You

KenRoe
KenRoe on November 30, 2008 at 2:34 pm

A vintage photograph of the Queen’s Hall in August 1949, playing the Gaumont release:
http://www.mawgrim.co.uk/cavalcade/newcastleq3.jpg
The Queen’s Hall, photographed in March 1956, playing the Gaumont release:
http://www.mawgrim.co.uk/cavalcade/newcastleq2.jpg
The entrance to the Queen’s Cinerama Theatre, playing a Cinerama Roadshow presentation in 1971:
http://www.mawgrim.co.uk/cavalcade/newcastleq.jpg