Cinema Trindade Porto
Independent-cinema landmark in a 1913 entertainment palace, reborn after a seventeen-year closure.
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This guide to Cinema Trindade in Porto opens in 1913 inside a pleasure palace called Salão Jardim da Trindade, complete with a ballroom, a café, a billiard hall and a projector built to swivel from an indoor screen to an open-air terrace. You'll hear how it was rebuilt as Cinema Trindade in 1957, how censors under the dictatorship controlled what played there until the 1974 revolution, and how the grand hall was later carved up, with a bingo parlor moving into the upper floors. Listen for the moment a film distributor named Américo Santos decided the doorway shouldn't stay empty.
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