Cosmorama, Movie theater in Gothenburg, Sweden
Cosmorama is a movie theater in central Gothenburg that screens films regularly for the local audience. The venue operates as a traditional cinema with standard seating and projection equipment.
Knut Husberg and film supplier Axel Reuterberg opened Cosmorama on 2 September 1908 by building over the courtyard at Östra Hamngatan 48. The opening programme included Sir Thomas Lipton's tea plantations in Ceylon and the comedy Amor och Psyche. Expanded by 400 seats in 1915, it was rebuilt in 1935 to designs by architect Nils Einar Eriksson and closed on 28 July 1988.
The name Cosmorama refers to a panoramic view of the world, fitting a cinema that opened in 1908 with a programme including films about Ceylon tea plantations and Scottish wildlife. During the silent era a ten-piece orchestra accompanied screenings, and the Royal Romanian Gypsy Chapel performed at the premiere. The building now houses a Lagerhaus store.
Cosmorama stood at Östra Hamngatan 46–48 in central Gothenburg, a site now occupied by the Lagerhaus store; the cinema closed on 28 July 1988, so there are no screenings to attend. The address is within walking distance of the city's central streets and tram stops.
Cosmorama housed Sweden's second cinema organ; the first had been installed at the Skandia in Stockholm in 1926. During the silent era a ten-piece orchestra accompanied the films, and it was dismissed in 1930 when sound equipment arrived with Sweden's first talkie. The premises now hold a Lagerhaus store.
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