Cine Metro
Bandera esq. Agustinas,
Santiago de Chile
Bandera esq. Agustinas,
Santiago de Chile
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Previously operated by: Loew's Inc.
Architects: Jorge Arteaga Isaza, Sergio Larrain Garcia-Moreno
Firms: Arteaga & Larrain
Styles: Art Deco
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Loew’s International Inc. opened this MGM showcase theatre in 1936. The Cine Metro was a first run movie theater for MGM. Clark Gable, in person, was the main guest, among many other personalities at the inauguration ceremony. Cine Metro had seating for 940 in the orchestra lavel and one balcony which seated 888. It was modern and simply decorated in an Art Deco style. It was very comfortable, but not luxurious. It was a great theater, but without the grandeur of other movie palaces, although it was for many decades the flagship of MGM in Chile.
It is remarkable that the Cine Metro showed first run films its entire life, despite declining attendance beginning in the 1960’s. In 1979, after 40 years of successful operation, the Cine Metro was closed and razed, a victim of real estate speculation. Only the facade still remains.
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Carlos Stoeckel
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There is a brief exterior clip of a Cine Metro in Santiago early on in the Fitzpatrick Travelogue “Chile, Land of Charm” from MGM.
This is available to view on the TCM website, but is dated 1937. It seems to match the description above, could the opening date have been earlier?
Here’s a link to the above video
Cine Metro was actually built in 1936. It was designed by architects Jorge Arteaga Isaza and Sergio Larrain Garcia-Moreno. I’ve been unable to discover if Larrain was the father of the noted Chilean photographer Sergio Larrain, born at Santiago in 1931, but I suspect that he was.
Source (a large .pdf file of an essay on modern architecture in Chile.)