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World's oldest movie theatre
From Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten - translated by me,
Korsør is a small town of 15,000 people, located on the West coast of the island of Zealand. It is most notable for being the gateway city to the Great Belt Fixed Link, which includes the world's third longest suspension bridge.
Neat.
Korsør Cinema Theatre is World's oldest
05.08.2008 23:30
On Thursday, when bottles of champagne will mark the centenary of Korsør Cinema Theatre (Korsør Biograf Teater), the movie theatre will also celebrate having gained a new distinction.
Just recently, it was declared the oldest operating cinema in the world by Guinness World Records, reports Kristeligt Dagblad.
Two of the cinema's volunteer employees were on a vacation in Poland when they saw the local cinema in the city of Szczecin advertising that it was the oldest in the world. The tourist couple started wondering, wasn't the cinema in Korsør, in fact, nine months older than the Polish one?
"So we had to take action," says Malene Kirkegaard Nielsen, the cinema's public relations consultant.
Korsør Cinema Theatre is run by 35 volunteers who handle everything from the rolls of film to bookkeeping. And it's those same people who produced witnesses and local archives records, newspaper clippings and the cinema's own historic records to verify to the scrutinizers at Guinness their claim of having the age of 100 years.
05.08.2008 23:30
On Thursday, when bottles of champagne will mark the centenary of Korsør Cinema Theatre (Korsør Biograf Teater), the movie theatre will also celebrate having gained a new distinction.
Just recently, it was declared the oldest operating cinema in the world by Guinness World Records, reports Kristeligt Dagblad.
Two of the cinema's volunteer employees were on a vacation in Poland when they saw the local cinema in the city of Szczecin advertising that it was the oldest in the world. The tourist couple started wondering, wasn't the cinema in Korsør, in fact, nine months older than the Polish one?
"So we had to take action," says Malene Kirkegaard Nielsen, the cinema's public relations consultant.
Korsør Cinema Theatre is run by 35 volunteers who handle everything from the rolls of film to bookkeeping. And it's those same people who produced witnesses and local archives records, newspaper clippings and the cinema's own historic records to verify to the scrutinizers at Guinness their claim of having the age of 100 years.
Korsør is a small town of 15,000 people, located on the West coast of the island of Zealand. It is most notable for being the gateway city to the Great Belt Fixed Link, which includes the world's third longest suspension bridge.
Neat.
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