Cine Pathé, Movie theater in Cinelândia District, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cine Pathé was a cinema on Praça Floriano in Cinelândia, Rio de Janeiro, opened in 1907 and closed in 1999. It was the first cinema in the city to use Art Nouveau language and had about 1,000 seats. Its building now houses a Universal Church of the Kingdom of God congregation.
The Cinematographo Pathé opened on 17 September 1907, run by Arnaldo & Cia, a partnership between Marc Ferrez & Filhos and Arnaldo Gomes de Souza, since the contract with Maison Pathé-Frères barred the Ferrez firm from owning cinemas itself. Sources place it on Avenida Central at no. 116 after April 1912, and at no. 151/153 in 1915, where Leopoldo Fróes's theatre company premiered before the house went back to films alone. It closed in 1999.
The name came from the Parisian Maison Pathé-Frères, with which Marc Ferrez's firm signed an import contract; the hall opened on 17 September 1907 under Arnaldo & Cia. Its programme was among the first regular film screenings in the city. The building now houses an evangelical church, the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus.
The location sits near Avenida Rio Branco in the Cinelândia district and is easy to reach. Visitors should know that the building now serves other purposes and no longer shows films.
The contract with Paris-based Maison Pathé-Frères barred Marc Ferrez's firm from owning cinemas in Brazil, so the hall opened on 17 September 1907 under Arnaldo & Cia, a partnership with Arnaldo Gomes de Souza, then owner of a café-concerto at the Passeio Público. The building now houses an Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus.
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