The Electric Cinema is a cinema and sound recording facility in Birmingham England. It opened in Station Street in 1909 showing its first silent film on 27 December of that year and is now the oldest working cinema in the country. It predates its namesake the Electric Cinema in Notting Hill London by around two months. Originally called the Electric Theatre the cinema has undergone a number of name changes since its opening but returned as the Electric in October 1993.
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address
47-49 Station Street
currently used for
* Cinema, * sound recording
former name
* Select Cinema, * Tatler News Theatre, * The Classic, * The Jacey, * The Tivoli
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