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Los Angeles 2015
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Oakland Paramount Theatre
The Oakland Paramount Theatre was built as a movie palace, during the rise of the motion picture industry in the late 1920s. 38-year-old San Francisco architect Timothy L. Pflueger was responsible for the design. He also did the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. The Paramount opened on December 16, 1931. The Art Deco design referred to the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris. Today the 3,040 seat theatre is the home of the Oakland East Bay Symphony and the Oakland Ballet. It regularly plays host to R&B, jazz, blues, pop, rock, gospel, classical music, as well as ballets, plays, stand-up comedy, lecture series, special events, and screenings of classic movies from Hollywood’s Golden Era.
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Oakland 2015
Metro-Kino
Wooden stair at the Metro-Kino
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Vienna 2014
The Metro-Kino is a cinema in the Johannesgasse 4 in the 1st district of Vienna. The building first housed a nightclub called Elysium, later a playhouse was opened at this address. In 1951 the Metro-Kino moved in. The cinema was taken over by the Austrian Film Archive in 2002. The Filmarchiv Austria runs the cinema for the showing of significant and historical Austrian films. Furthermore, it is one of the traditional venues of the Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale) taking place every October since 1960.
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