Great video. Keep up the good work. I was a projectionist for 25 years and i feel sad to see cinemas rotting away like this. To answer some of your questions. A way to tell if it's a cinema screen is to examine it closely and if it contains thousands of small perforations it's a screen. The perforations are there for the sound to travel unhindered from the speakers. The headsets were not for staff but provided to visually impaired customers for films that had audio description. It's not an IMAX screen. A standard IMAX screen is 22 m × 16.1 m (72 ft × 53 ft) so the building is too small to accommodate one. Films used to arrive at cinemas in 20 minute reels so the projectionist had to join the reels together to make up the feature. The bench in the projection booth is called a make up and break down bench. Since the arrival of digital it's now obsolete. The black stand in the projection room was for the digital projector. Not surprisingly its been taken for they are worth 75k plus. Hope thats helped?

Just a heads up, you’ve accidentally put this in the Chernobyl playlist. Love your work

The cinema was opened in the very late 1920s with sound, and split in to 2 during 1969. Both screens were impressive, and the deeply curved screen in cinema 1 (upstairs) was a 'cinerama' screen (different to a cinemascope screen), a very rare beast. 'Ice Station Zebra' , a cinerama lensed film, was the opening night film after the conversion. At a later date (I can't remember but late 80's?) the downstairs (cinema 2) large auditorium was then spilt up in to 5(?) screens. The last film shown in cinema 1 on the cinerama screen was La La Land. The ABC was also one large cinema until split in to 2 in 1969, with the second smaller screen being split again during the early 1970s to make a 3 screen complex. The ABC was 70mm capable, which the 'Gaumont' (Odeon) in this film was not, though I imagine provision was made for an easly conversion if needed.

Love your videos and glad to see your adventures as well. Thanks for posting this too. Have a nice day now.

the last film ever played in that cinema was actually la la land. I was in that last showing and it was very emotional... the headsets was actually used for people with hard or hearing. I know this stuff because I used to work there ;) such a sorry state in there... thanks for the video I've always been curious what it looks like in there

@MrArtorogames

4 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure it was back to the future wasn’t it?

@YBODiver

4 жыл бұрын

It breaks my heart

@DarrenJCalvert

4 жыл бұрын

GamePlayer that was the last film in the ABC just down the road

Before it was a cinema it was a music venue and the Beatles performed there

hello abandoned explorer, first of all thank you so much for filming the inside of the odeon as it is today, I had been to that cinema as well as abc many times over the years. Rouge One was the last film I saw at this cinema inside the larger room, I believe known as screen 1. I fondly remember seeing Star Trek also in that screen. I am not sure what the last film would have been shown here but yes screen 1 was huge. Words don't express how important it is to be able to watch this and also as commented filming the artwork and architecture was amazing. Havent quite finished the video yet but want to say a massive thanks. Very much appreciated. Paul

@Thecyclingexplorer

5 жыл бұрын

Aw cheers bro love this comment loads if you can please share this as much as you can and give it a big thumbs up.

@onetwothree4917

5 жыл бұрын

@@ThecyclingexplorerNo worries, there is a memories of Bournemouth group on facebook that should draw some interest to the video. I am sure the owners of the building want to attempt to keep some of the architecture like the painting but if I am right in saying have said they cannot 100 percent guarantee. would seem a shame if they tore that away. The abc explorartion feels more sadness to the way the cinema and screens ect had been left. The odeon just looks damaged and abandoned whereas the abc has that something more like you said at the end of the video.

So weird seeing my childhood cinema like that! I watched so many films there. I remember watching high school musical 3 and a few of the twilight movies in the big screen at the top! Was always the best screen specially when you sit at the back!

This takes me back to my time at the Odeon Cheltenham 👍

This place is well smart. Keep up the fantastic explores 👍

Loved seeing this video, my mum used to work here and in the abc, so we used to get in free all the time.... bearing in mind that was in the 70’s and 80’s...... I remember watching the first showing of Superman on that big screen........ it’s never been an imax screen - just to let you know. There used to be a bar upstairs as well 😀

I used to go there all the time up until it closed and it truely breaks my heart seeing it so ruined by vandals, I really want to get in but they have blocked off every way there ever was to get in though so I cannot

Interesting video. Enjoyed it all. Nice to see whats behind the cinema curtian etc. Nice to know about the beatles preforming there. That Ben & Jerrys would look cool in a cinema room at home.

For almost 20 years there was an Odeon in St Albans which had been left to rot, having opened in the 1910s and closed in mid 90s. It's now been done up and is an independent repertory cinema; maybe the same could be done with this one.

I used to go to both of these cinemas as a kid; it’s so strange and quite sad to see Screen One in that condition. My Dad also used to go to both of those cinemas as a kid in the 1950’s. I remember as a kid in the 90’s we watched the original remastered Star Wars trilogy on that screen :) . From my memory it wasn’t ever an IMAX though; there was a separate IMAX cinema on Bournemouth seafront opposite The Pavillion (which was bought and demolished by the council because it was so ugly lol.) I always used to love the fact there were two cinemas next to each other as you could compare prices on the day and go to the cheaper one. Both had so much more character than that big new one they’ve built across the other side of the gardens :(

@Thecyclingexplorer

5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@YBODiver

4 жыл бұрын

Although the new BH2, complex is top spec it will never have the same authentic feeling of the old odeon

Great video guys. I've watched a lot of movies over the years in there. Rogue one was the last one I watched there.

6 screen channels in the main screen means it had 70mm projection facilities. Cinerama started as a 3 strip (3 projector ) format, but by the time it was installed in this cinema Cinerama films were being projected on 70mm film with 6 magnetic soundtracks striped onto the edge of the movie. Great video.

This is an amazing explorer, I think some of the empty spaces behind the screens could have had speakers in place that were worth something?

As mentioned the Beatles played a 6 night stint there, when it was the Gaumont Theatre in 1963. It was the first time they had performed the song ‘She Loves You’ to a public audience. History in the making. They stayed in the Palace Court Hotel next door and eventually returned back to perform in 1964.

I remember going to this cinema and the ABC so sad to see it in this state thanks for sharing. One of the screens was the biggest in Dorset.

The odeon in Bournemouth was made up of lots of small screens with the one larger one you were in,It was not always like this though,I cant remember when the cinema was split into lots of smaller screens and at forst many were unsure if it would work,but it did and the smaller screens were much better,as I live and work in Bournemouth I have been in this cinema many times,the new BH2 complex is a great improvement and based on the same format,lots of small screens which actual makes for a better experience,great explore and sad to see the state of it now,as it was a great cinema

Abandoned and sadly will remain this way now.!! So many cinemas close and newer ones open but nothing can replace the original cinema that these newer ones think they can by been modern !! I have explored many cinemas in the UK and they have been much part of me through my active life but I cannot myself abandon my own thoughts and beliefs that these once great places of true entertainment was undoubtedly the best place to watch films there always will be !!

I had hungry hippos when I was a child, loved it, I would have taken that mini game ha

Hi guys! Love your videos here “across the pond” in the little colonies! Lol! I haven’t watched in a wee while... sorry, but I watched your video about the mining sludge lake with church steeple sticking out. You said that you hoped to go some place but I can’t remember. Which video followed your mining sludge lake video? Oh, wait, sorry! I’m thinking of the hidden body and cops came. Was the mining village the follow up to the body discovery? Thanx guys! Great work! You have true courage. 😉👍🌹

@Thecyclingexplorer

5 жыл бұрын

Haha the body found was nothing to do with me I don't do stuff like that I'm afraid that was exploring with fighters sorry but thank you for your comment

Keep vids like this coming!

@Thecyclingexplorer

5 жыл бұрын

I will do thank you

Looks awesome in there. Still no screen one tho 😉

imax projectors csn be the size of a mini ( car ) ,most imax screens start at least 70ft wide.imax film runs horizontal, not verticle. i think. the control panel you found in the projection booth with the logos of up/ down,/wide/ scope on the buttons would be for what is called variable masking.making the screen appear square,for what is called wide screen,& scope is wide and narrow. i miss the industry so bad,its nice to see inside other cinemas,& i get excited when anything like your video pops up...thanx

Yep watched films loads of times and the ABC up the road :) wasn’t an imax.. both ABC and the odeon are listed buildings so they couldn’t do much work inside..

Enjoy watching people exploring abandoned cinemas like 2 go on 1 of them

Refreshments bar would have been inside the auditorium from when there were live performances that had intervals.

My Nan and Granddad had their wedding reception there when it was called "The Gaumont" in the bar (later converted to screen 5/6) on 23rd December 1961! Shame to see the state of it. Spent years watching films in that building...

Just across the road from the ODEON is the official drop off/pick up point for us coach drivers. Seen the place loads but never been in.

Great vid You have to go back these places and try to find the originality of both these buildings the stuff the conversions hid away from their single screen days One of these places has a room totally sealed away from its early days which apparently you can only get in from a roof hatch type of affair above the ticket booth The fly tower says it all when you see that The ABC next door would of had changing rooms and a organ pit in its day which will be still there hidden under floors rooms would of also been sealed away during the conversions When you look into the history of the ABC chain they did host the Beatles concerts in the 60s one time The Odeon first called the Regent then Gaumont also had a organ

Nice homage to the early 2000s Odeon Idents at the start of the video (0:00) also the Harry Potter posters (18:02) weren’t the last Harry Potter Films to be shown at that Odeon Cinema as that film was released in 2010 and Part 2 was released the year after in 2011 and the supposed last film posters they have there are of Star Wars: Rouge One which was released in 2016 (7:17), also I’m surprised you didn’t loot any of those Odeon Cinema Gift Cards as I would Lol hahaha (6:27) 😂

I love the movies lol I never been to a odeon like this I’ve been to cineplex odeon

Would love to buy the old sound systems.sound was fantastic…

That old Tele is pronounced pie (Pye) good video

i went to this cinema many times and also saw the Beatles there, such a shame it has been vandalised

The curved screen is not an IMAX screen, it was originally used for 70mm prints which you saw one reel of, but that reel is just one part of the film. They retrofitted a digital projector to that screen too as you pointed out.

Behind the screens there are speakers but somebody took them. The black curtains on the sides are called the masking they are there to format the screen to the appropriate shape based on whether it is a flat or scope film.

Come to the odeon with my parents over a 30 year period James Bond movies and even saw Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s total recall. The cinema closed 2017 and as I understand it will be turned into flats. Sad to see it in this state.

I used to go here all the time. recognise the screens. I don't think Screen One was an IMAX you can tell by the speakers. I remember seeing Independence Day, Dangerous Minds, Seven, and Trainspotting in that screen back in the mid-90s

This is an old video, only just seeing it. This was my local cinema and the abc went to both of them loads of times, it’s sad to see how trashed it is, can’t imagine what it looks like now inside ☹️

The screen you thought was an Imax screen was not,it was just a super large screen for showing the blockbuster movies on opening night,as in the most popular,they would be shown in the biggest screen then dumb down to the smaller screens as the new blockbusters were released

@DarthVader-on4pe

4 жыл бұрын

It was a cinerama screen, the last intact original cinerama auditorium in the UK when it closed. When it opened in 1969 the screen was 75 feet wide and deeply curved. Remained curved until closure and always looked spectacular :-)

Not imax - screen one was the largest screen on the south coast at one point. It hosted many premieres.

The old TV's a now long defunct brand called "Pye".

I work in an odeon so this kinda creeps me out lmao

Did anyone else notice the random Bra on the chair in the staff room? 18:03.

I hear the term “guys” used an awful lot!

I bought Hungry Hungry Hippos about 4 years ago for my children!!

@Memphjs

3 жыл бұрын

Nice

Young people now can't appreciate that the further back in time you went, cinemas were more glamorous and a luxurious part of people's lives like the theatre. They had more style and you had your refreshments lady (or ice cream lady) come around. Now, some things have changed, like spacious seats, but really, the whole look and feel has degraded.

@simonorourke4465

3 жыл бұрын

Especially since many of the old cinemas were actually converted theaters or music halls and would often keep the opulent fixtures and fittings when they were converted.

All the bass speakers are normally located behind the screens

12 minutes in, that is not an IMAX screen, it was the main screen for premieres. I’ve seen many movies in that room from 2003-2016.

@Thecyclingexplorer

5 жыл бұрын

Oh thank you very much

@DoctorLLcoolJ

5 жыл бұрын

No worries. Thanks for posting the vid. It’s really eerie seeing The Odeon and ABC in that state now!

@markburridge1695

3 жыл бұрын

It's not a room!!!!!!! They are called screens.....

@DarthVader-on4pe

3 жыл бұрын

@@markburridge1695 theatre, dear boy, always a theatre (not a screen or a room) 😁

The sound system is worth a fortune…

EXPLORATION!!!!!

The very last film to be shown at this cinema was actually La La Land.

Is this still here? Also where is it?

Where is the address? And is it still open to explore now?!

This is a dif country cause I’m in Ayr (Scotland) and my odeon still open

I been here

Not Imax but a six channel Magnetic system Super Panavision format 70 mm

Still stays abandoned to this day. And the abc cinema is still abandoned

I miss the curtains opening at the start. Very dramatic. New cinemas are so cheap looking. Basic concrete walls painted black. And expensive

why is this video in the playlist of Chernobyl Series?

Only in Bournemouth

Was this abandoned Odeon Cinema in Chernobyl? Or Pip Re Yet

@YBODiver

4 жыл бұрын

Andy Simkin no, it’s in Bournemouth, Dorset in England

Iv been there! And the abc

@cpricelessj

5 жыл бұрын

Louise James we’re is it??

@amymcguirk6488

5 жыл бұрын

Bournemouth

A curved cinema screen would’ve been called cinerama.

no imax existed in that building, the projection room would have been enormous. 20 yrs projectionist

@Thecyclingexplorer

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the info have a great day sisu

@showreel2

3 жыл бұрын

i was a projectionist from late 80's into 90's... odeon Ipswich. 2 screens (vic 8's and vic 9s) then into new odeon 5 screen (vic 5's) then shut down and also derelict

my daughter had hungry hippos

Was this in the states. As over in the uk. If I was u. I would salvage. Most of the stuff like cups. And clothes and. What ever. That can be used. For an everyday meal or drink or clothes prep. All for the homeless. As I shud know this as I help out at our homeless street kitchen over in the uk. In Leeds City square every Tuesday at 6:30pm. Always feeding the homeless. I would love to. Explore. Like you guys and if I came across theses items. I would salvage. Of what's left soo its not wasted. As I hate seeing videos. Especially over in American. If its exploring and dumpster diving and seeing waste. And that's just lying around and not salvaged. Just sickens me but still liked this video. Always. Do just hate seeing waste about and not used. 😔

I serve with your brother, Ian Ansell.

@Thecyclingexplorer

5 жыл бұрын

Wow nice to meet ya bro how's Ian getting on say hi to him for me

@tessexplores1601

5 жыл бұрын

@@Thecyclingexplorer He's doing alright mate, few weeks back he was showing us all your videos trying to convince everyone he was your brother. I'm also an urban explorer in my spare time, so I was genuinely surprised when he showed me your videos and told me he was your brother!

11:53 i wish i could have this big horns, wondering if some of the audio equipment is still there

@Josh19998

3 жыл бұрын

Big horns? Wtf

@harrison00xXx

3 жыл бұрын

@@Josh19998 Horn speakers...

@Josh19998

3 жыл бұрын

@@harrison00xXx ok do you want to go and take them? I’ve just taken someones van

oppos wrong list I was going to say that I don't think Rogue One was even thought of in 1986 but will done video anyway.

What amazes me is how much stuff is left behind, I know this cinema well and the ABC, and both were closed because of the New Odeon Multiplex just down the road, why don’t they completely empty it...they must own the building or surely a landlord would insist it was completely emptied.

Cinerama screen not imax

@white-dragon4424

3 жыл бұрын

Cinerama was much wider and used more than one projector (three I believe) pointed in different directions. It was also only used a handful of times. The screen is probably Panavision or even Super Panavision.

FRACTIONAL SHARES ADD TOO LONG AND INTRUSIVE. HAD TO DELETE AND RELOAD TO GET RID OF IT.

12:09 3D screen

that cinema has already been visited by other urbex explorers

@Thecyclingexplorer

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry don't understand

In the 80s, the film would stop for a halfway interval. The ice-cream lady would do the rounds and the shop would open. Annoying right in the middle of the film.

@Thecyclingexplorer

5 жыл бұрын

Really dam bro that would suck 😂 thanks for the comment

@simonorourke4465

3 жыл бұрын

I live in Aberystwyth in wales, e have a small one screen independent cinema here called the commodore, it still has a kiosk next to the screen where they sell snacks from before each film starts. They don't do the whole interval thing anymore though but they open it up before each film starts.

@ontheflyby270

3 жыл бұрын

I say annoying... Well back then maybe... But the reality is in my 40s at least I'd not have to go for a pee while missing 5mins of film lol!

They are screens not rooms, it's screen 1, screen 2, screen 3 and screen 4. If you worked for the cinema they would be called 'Odeon 1' and so on, but please stop calling them 'rooms'..... Thanks

this still there?