Odeon Holloway

The cinema is situated at the corner of Tufnell Park Road and Holloway Road. It was designed by C. Howard Crane, an American architect resident in London in the 1930s. It was a project of Hyams and Gale, who also built Gaumont State Cinema in Kilburn, London, and is similarly large, originally seating 3,006 in one auditorium. Hyams and Gale was acquired by Gaumont-British before the cinema opened. There was a restaurant, seating 220, above the entrance; theatre facilities included an orchestra pit, dressing rooms and rehearsal rooms. The first film shown, on 5 September 1938, was The Hurricane. The building was damaged on 8 November 1944 by a V-1 flying bomb; the external walls and foyers…