Tutti contro la chiusura del Metropolitan di Roma her return to Italy a few weeks ago, I see that things always go better ... that is worse.
Only yesterday, reading the French newspaper Le Monde online, I found the news of the forthcoming closure of the cinema
Metropolitan (via del Corso, vicino a Piazza del Popolo), uno dei pochi cinema romani ad avere una programmazione di qualità e a proiettare i film nella loro versione originale con sottotitoli in italiano.
Il
Metropolitan , che nel 1911 compierà 100 anni, come spiego nel sito
sempre in penombra , sito in un palazzo storico del centro di Roma, è stato venduto dalla Fininvest Sviluppi Immobiliari S.p.A., pare per 24 milioni di euro. Il probabile acquirente è il gruppo Benetton, che, approfittando della delibera comunale che consente la ristrutturazione dei cinema, potrebbe mantenere la attività culturale al 50% della cubatura. Intorno alla chiusura del Metropolitan group was born
against the closure of the Metropolitan on Facebook that I invite you to visit and sign the petition.
Continuing with the history of the hall in time, this time we got to 1948, when the cinema at the Metropolitan name:
Rome, March 1948.
INAUGURATION OF THE CINEMA IN ROME METROPOLITAN
NEW LOCAL IS MADE OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY AND ELEGANCE OF THE ITALIAN HALL SHOW LOCATION
more central artery of Rome, the course, specifically near the Piazza del Popolo, dominated by picturesque green Pincio, there was a little old cinema: Cinema Gloria, who was called before American Cinema.
The building that housed this film is an austere building that dates from the seventeenth century. Of the small cinema Gloria now has not been even a dim memory. E 'built in its place the most modern cinema of Italy that is truly the pride of those who, technicians, craftsmen, laborers, have given their love opera: THE METROPOLITAN.
THE LOCAL
engineers and architects responsible for the colossal work of construction had used the most modern architecture in terms of cinematic experience.
inputs, collected in many areas but little volume, have a comfortable, intimate and warm. They are decorated with a mosaic floor inspired by the great color flooring del museo Laterano. L'esecuzione dei bozzetti è stata affidata al Pittore Campilli. Le volte a vela sono decorate a stucco vivo con figure, episodi e tralci sul genere che si può ammirare nella Basilica sotterranea, presso S. Maria Maggiore o alla Casa dei Valeri sulla Via Latina. L'esecuzione è stata affidata allo scultore Francesco Barbieri. Le pareti a semplice stucco romano sono illuminate a luce diffusa.
Il METROPOLITAN lui una capacità di 1600 persone. I posti sono disposti in una platea e due Gallerie. Gli schemi generali della visibilità sono stati in parte tratti dal De Montaut (Architecture et le Cinéma) e dallo Schangler e Irrera.
Duo sono i sistemi essenziali :
— Platea con pendenza rovescia cioè con the seats near the screen at a level higher than the other.
- Galleries far advanced as if to describe the character of salt in section superimposed on the type of Schumann Theatre in Berlin.
- The Noise is another important feature: the walls of the room are all moves and curved segments' the sound absorbent.
The projection booth was carried aloft, above the tunnels and is completely isolated from the local input and separate the shield - in relation to the down slope of the audience and the position of the cabin - is tilted according to the type of Mac Donald "New Cinema of London Waterloo."
The ventilation is the most modern there is. Contrary to
. physical principle, the hot or cold air is fed from above and rationally distributed both in the audience as in tunnels.
The seats are designed with better than those normally used in the cinema. They are large (0.58 x 0.85) and in a position to provide maximum comfort and cushioning for both tilt in relation to the particular slope of the floor. They also have an availability of more space than usual.
TECHNICAL SKILLS ': 1600 seats, 500 standing
Volume: 5500 m3
TEMPERATURE
Winter: 0 ° external, internal 18 °,
Summer: 30 degrees in the shade outside, inside 25 " .
The air is cleaned and filtered and has a turnover time of 22.000 Me 4 times the cubic volume of the room.
is fed into a steam room of 0.60 gram. time and anhydrite carbon equal to 0.02 hours Me. In winter the warm air is introduced at 30 degrees with 30% RH, during the summer at 18 ° with 95% relative humidity. In the winter period for the set up of the local potential is 350,000 calories. For the summer of 200,000 refrigeration
INAUGURATION
the evening of March 4 in the presence of numerous guests, personalities of politics, banking, industry and environment film of the year, journalists each category of the Metropolitan officially start its activities with the vision of "lost youth" production Lux Film.
The previous Sunday had been invited technical journalists and critics of the newspapers that have been shown to be quite local, which is the newest and most comfortable among those of the first vision.
The capital has it the pride of having done that Cinema technique and style is at the forefront of all the beautiful performance halls in Italy.
