Colosseum cinema
The Colosseum cinema is operated by the Norwegian company Oslo Kino and is their largest cinema . The cinema building is located at Fridtjof Nansen vei 8 in the district Majorstuen in Oslo . It has four cinema halls of various sizes, including the largest, the “Colosseum 1” with 978 seats.
Halls
Colosseum cinema has a total of 4 halls, each with 978, 274, 151 and 115 seats in rooms 1, 2, 3 and 4. The "Colosseum 1" cinema hall was certified in 1998 with the THX quality seal of the George Lucas group of companies . Colosseum 1 has a screen measuring 10 × 22 m and since July 2009 viewers have been able to watch films in digital format 3D films in RealD .
history
The Colosseum cinema was built by the architects Jacob Hansen and Gerhard Iversen and completed and inaugurated in 1928. In the fall of 1952, Louis Armstrong gave a concert at the Colosseum cinema and on February 7, 1954, Billie Holiday gave a concert at the Colosseum. In 1954, the widescreen format was introduced in the cinema using the anamorphic method (Cinemascope) and the first film to be shown in this format was the American film Das Gewand ( The Robe ). In 1960 the " Todd AO " system (70 mm) was introduced in the Colosseum and the film South Pacific was the first of its kind in the Colosseum. During a test run by the projectionist of the film Mutiny on the Bounty , a fire broke out on February 15 at 9.45 a.m. The called fire brigade came quickly, but for fear that the large dome could collapse, they limited their use to external extinguishing measures. At 10:45 the first cracks appeared on the dome and shortly afterwards it fell into the interior of the building. The Colosseum eventually burned out completely. The Norwegian associations Kinostyret and Oslo formannskap kinosaken decided on July 1, 1963 to rebuild and convert the cinema building. The company Stensrud & Søn was awarded the contract as general contractor and the architect Sverre Fehn was entrusted with the planning and implementation. Fehn decided that the dome should be slightly larger than the previous one of the building. Originally, the architect wanted to cover the dome with a bronze alloy and it should be redesigned in a size similar to the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome . Since these projects would have exceeded the budget considerably, these plans were discarded and the dome made a little smaller and only given white paint. In a later dome renovation, it was coated with a rubber asphalt solution. On November 21, 1963, during the reconstruction work in the Colosseum, another fire broke out in connection with insulation work. However, the damage was limited and mainly only delayed the completion date. After completion, the cinema was returned to the public on September 12, 1964.
The Norwegian daily Nations reported in detail and described the re-inauguration as follows:
“ With a sea of flowers of poetry and song, with speeches before and after the opening show as well as with a huge selection of guests from home and abroad ... The reopening of the Colosseum was honored with a fitting Saturday evening gala. To the almost 1200 guests who had tickets to the film Lawrence of Arabia , which was shown in Technirama and Super Panavision 70 , disguised sheikhs and veiled girls distributed chocolate in the hall ... Apparently that was not enough festivity for the audience , which was really wonderful to experience the white, dizzying expanse in the hall, to see the golden curtain and to enjoy the comfortable red seats ... "
The Norwegian crime comedy Olsenbanden og Dynamitt-Harry går amok from the series of films by the Norwegian Olsenbande not only premiered on November 29, 1973 in the Colosseum, but the cinema was also the setting for the film. After a failed break-in by the Olsen gang in the Colosseum, the protagonist Egon Olsen flees to the dome of the cinema building, where he is finally arrested. Other films from this series, popular in Norway from 1969 to 1999, also premiered in the Colosseum cinema and were mostly characterized by high visitor numbers.
On August 1st, 1987 the three smaller halls "Colosseum 2-3-4" were opened and some further renovation work was carried out. After ten years, the cinema underwent extensive renovation and refurbishment work again in 1997. The Colosseum was reopened with the screening of the film Titanic . In 2003 the operator Oslo Kinematografer undertook major restructuring measures, whereupon the Colosseum was privatized. In the following year, however, after difficulties with the private operator Colosseum Eiendom AS , the cinema was again taken over by the Oslo Kinematografer Association , Oslo Kino .
Web links
- The Colosseum cinema in the norske leksikon store
- Oslo Kinematografer on oslokino.no
- Oslo Kinematografer on filmweb.no (main page with an article)
- Archive: About the fire on byarkivet.oslo.kommune.no archive
- Pictures of the fire on byarkivet.oslo.kommune.no
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b http://www.oslokino.no/kinofakta/colosseum/ Om Colosseum på oslokino.no
- ↑ 3D i Colosseum 1 ( Norwegian ) Oslo Kino . Retrieved January 18, 2010.
- ↑ Vebjørn Storeide: Oslo cinema: Satser stort på 3D-filmer . release.no. July 2, 2009. Accessed on January 18, 2010. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ John Berge: 3D-kino også på Colosseum ( Norwegian ) release.no. June 15, 2009. Accessed on January 18, 2010. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ In: Nations , Oslo, September 12, 1964; Source Byarktivet, Oslo commune
- ↑ Hauke Lange-Fuchs : “I have a plan!” , Pp. 108–112, pp. 125–128; Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3924214484
Coordinates: 59 ° 56 ' N , 10 ° 43' E