I'm not an explorer but I am an inveterate traveller and had a fabulous trip to Marrakech in Ferbuary this year. My other half lived there for 3 months and had been banging on for us to take a trip there for years. We spent a week wandering the city and coming across the Cinema Eden and being invited inside by the caretaker(?) was my personal highlight of the trip as I am a huge movie buff.
This cinema has been written about in the past (but not on this forum as far as I can see) so I won't bore you with the details apart from syaing that the cinema openend in 1926 and closed in 2009. It's being cared for at the moment with a view to being restored. There were no signs of work being done and from what I could see, there's very little required to get it up and running again.
Here's an article from the Guardian featuring the Eden:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2004/mar/06/film
On with the pictures:
From the outside on Riad Zitun
The foyer
Spare seats in the foyer
Screen
The auditorium
View from the balcony
Front of the balcony
Off to the projector room
Projector
Not sure what movie this is....
This cinema has been written about in the past (but not on this forum as far as I can see) so I won't bore you with the details apart from syaing that the cinema openend in 1926 and closed in 2009. It's being cared for at the moment with a view to being restored. There were no signs of work being done and from what I could see, there's very little required to get it up and running again.
Here's an article from the Guardian featuring the Eden:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2004/mar/06/film
On with the pictures:
From the outside on Riad Zitun
The foyer
Spare seats in the foyer
Screen
The auditorium
View from the balcony
Front of the balcony
Off to the projector room
Projector
Not sure what movie this is....
