is very difficult to list all the movies that were in the capital, something not altogether impossible. But many of them had a short life and were just upgraded to the effect ships, so that technical data were not included in any report or publication of the time, which further complicates the feat. And I can only work on the street, word of mouth, with many of the data may not be entirely true, we are not going to stop counting.
My neighborhood, Pueblo Nuevo, appeared on the sides of the old road of Aragon, beyond the sales of the Holy Spirit. Mainly it was an area where they settled people coming from all corners of the English geography. The streets that formed small detached buildings, where sometimes more than one family crowding, almost all with more than one baby. When in Madrid and worked many local barracks and even a purpose built, first projections were made in the area. It was in the amusement park in the Linear City, back in the 20's, when in an outdoor theater silent films were screened, needless to say, that people in the neighborhood of Pueblo Nuevo, did not have "dibs" to achieve such exquisite delicacy .
The Kursall Linear City, the back projection screen.
- CINE LOS ARCOS - 1934
Florencio García On the Street # 2, next to the road of Aragon almost at the beginning of the then Ciudad Lineal, was born in 1934 a small CINE room known as the arches that very few remember, since he had disappeared in the early 50's. According count was made only modest room for stalls with a capacity of 392 places, which projected films in continuous session and whose owner was D. Antonio Catena. Subsequently transformed into a warehouse until its demolition in the 60's.
tube to be passed since the civil war, when they began to flourish along the old road of Aragon, the first purpose-built premises and primarily focused on the working class. The 40's gave way to several rooms "important" in their location. Al Apparently at this time, a cinema was a great investment and the first who came was more likely to be better cut.
- WORLD CINEMA - 1947
D. Pedro Miguel cranes which it was built in Aragon Road No. 168 (day Alcalá 382), a magnificent building designed solely to cinema-style of the capital, giving the neighborhood of the features of these, and disdaining the last ships converted into a projection room, called world cinema and was inaugurated in February 1947. He got up at four heights over basement and had a capacity of 660 seats divided between the courtyard and amphitheater. He also had a buffet, transit areas and toilets. Mainly stressed on its facade two triangular metal volumes roamed the three floors above giving a more sleek and streamlined. The building constructed with reinforced concrete structure had a strong ramp amphitheater and thanks to the materials was achieved in vain to leave a gap of almost 13 feet long on the stalls. At street level, the main lobby with marble flooring and stucco details stucco ceilings and baseboards of the three holes that led to the stalls. At one side of the hall was the staircase to the basement where they were the toilets and the emergency generator actuated by fuel, and climbed up to the main floor ambiguous. The floor was composed of small tiles in shades of gray; here installed a large bar, with the two holes leading to the amphitheater us as detailed above had a very steep ramp that we rose to the second floor area designed to toilets and rest. On one side was a door, and after such a ladder which was developed in an "L" pushed us to the third floor for offices and projection booth. The whole room was painted in green, decorated with large plaster in gold and topped by a dome which hung a beautiful chandelier. In this cinema, flagged the area for its convenience and size, a competitor was born just 300 m. The CINE LEPANTO, why the owner of the World will finally filed a complaint that was not worth anything.
sketch of the facade of World Cinema.
World Cinema was in operation until 1980 at which date reconviertió a games room, minimally changing their appearance, wanting to give the business certain air HOLLIWODIENSE, decorating the large local image American films, and placed next to the entrance doors OSSA the two large projectors used at the time of film. The business never opened its doors, most likely due to the lack of emergency exits in case of disaster, as he was sandwiched between two farms and the only exit was the same as the input. After twenty years of closure in the water, the Vandals and the years took their toll, destroying part of the furniture, there was a major work on the premises, leaving open plan ground floor, and tearing down the entrance, the stairs and around the yard seats. This was divided lengthwise into two branches, the former occupying half of the facade on the ground floor for a perfume "GILGEN" and the other half symmetric restaurant became a "knee", which currently holds in addition downstairs throughout the area previously devoted to ambiguous and bar on the first floor where the costumes are installed, the toilets, the checkpoint and the dining restaurant, which provide it with additional lighting and window opening holes for evacuation to the street of Alcala. The rest of the place is a mystery and disclosed. At the back of a warehouse is a trapdoor that leads directly to the ancient amphitheater, with all its decoration, the beds in the absence of chairs, walls decorated in green and the roof of the detached roof of your lamp. At the top of the ramp door two holes now free of them lead to a frozen space, a lobby desert, moist and rich in history, with its opaque windows that filter the light from the outside and gray floor tiles in a corner of the staircase still leads to the heart of the cinema, a sad day in his room where they were the projectors and which lets us see through the hollow projection of the room and onto the screen, torn in half with risen as the curtain waiting for the end of the film.
The local today.
Aerial view of the area, the center of the picture the roof of the stalls. - FILM SALES - 1949
The October 22, 1949, with the program in continuous session "button Anchor" and "Historic Board" opens World Cup with the same employer, another local, this time Sales close to the Holy Spirit, is your name, FILM SALES. was a small building, built in a corner of Aragon Road # 22, with only a patio chairs and had a capacity of 500 seats, apparently the screen was located in one of the solar interior angles giving and more widely to the site forming a fan-shaped patio. Closed in 74 when performing the works of the bridge over the creek Abroñigal, soon replaced by the M-30.
colored image of the area, can sense the roof of Cinema Sales .
Of these three filmmakers was Chief Technical D. Paul Grace Franco, paying particular attention to the first two. His brother Rafael, told me that in the film Los Arcos, at the time of the post-war there were frequent power cuts, and because of this projection is stopped. The public knows the ruling, friends and neighbors in general who occupied the room, chanting rhythmically, "If you go Arches cinema and the power goes out, call him back, Paul the Andalusian .
- CINE LEPANTO - 1950-1953
As we have mentioned previously built in Lepanto Film No. 178, Ctra de Aragón (now 376, Alcalá), rose less than the allowed distance local installation of film, which was 400 m. your neighbor's World Cinema. The local input was an apartment building under construction at the time of its opening, but had a very long narrow hallway that led us to the buffet where the bar was installed and from where through four openings heartburn to the room with a capacity of 1000 seats, which were distributed in a large room tastefully decorated with a steep slope toward the stage, also painted in green and with direct access via 4-door emergency cross street Campuzano. In the basement toilets in the upper cabin and offices. Due to the intervention of the owner Facility and that the property was still not completely finished, the room was closed, delaying its opening until February 1953. The owners were D. Manuel García Vidal, Film and the Construction Campuzano Lepanto. The restaurant suffered a spectacular fire on August 31, 1968, which destroyed part of yard, the stage and the roof without causing injury. Months later continued its journey, until 1980, which closes down to become a lounge restaurant for celebrations, known as Halls Hill, for it was emptying the room turning on two floors, one basement, installing a total of 4 rooms, in the back in the proscenium, down the kitchen, ran until the late 90's. After a long downtime, and in 2005 is completely renovated by removing even the entire flat roof deck to make it as not in the "great local disease film "ZARA, who along with his friends BRESCE, STRADIVARIUS, H & M, Sfera, Pinkie or VIPS (we will not let you forget) wipe out all local large. Externally and internally converted, ended up with the "C" Film which also served as a Capitol that looked at one of the side streets.
Aerial view of the area in the decade of the 50's. In the back of Lepanto film, and forming the corner of Rue de Amos de Escalante, a very narrow but elongated solar, simultaneously the company opened a summer movie with the same name, which worked very little time and few years later the neighboring buildings rose above the walls and the area was not working for that purpose. It was abandoned until the 90's. It had made some small buildings to service the film, which later served as a store for wedding halls. The plot grew many trees among which notably included a magnificent example of loquat fruit was flourishing and year after year. Disappeared at a stroke all the ruins revealing the screen in one of its sides, there are now an apartment building.
Two images of the building when it was still the Halls Hill.
Aerial view of the area in the center of the great ship of the stalls. 
Two local images of today. - CINE-1954 ARAGON
The February 8, 1954, opened on the Carretera de Aragon 124 (current 334, Alcalá), another room with the name in honor ARAGON FILM location, with the program in continuous session "To hell with celebrity" and "Worlds opposites." Was inserted into an apartment building and had a wide front in which they placed their billboards. The entrance was preceded by some steps that we gave way to a large lobby with two staircases, one at each end, under one of which were the lockers. Four holes gave way to the room, with a slope towards the screen and a high ceiling plaster. It was decorated in shades of red and had a capacity of 1500 seats divided between the courtyard and amphitheater. At the top a large lounge and bar, next to the toilets that were installed in front of these two corridors leading us to the amphitheater that was developing rapidly to reach the projection windows. It was a very cozy room, and what I remember most about my age, which mainly came on Saturday and Sunday mornings to a child sitting with my father, who subsequently changed by my friends. I especially remember the queue that formed outside his door and reached around the corner of Calle Los Urquiza, where rightly established a set of pipes, where we loaded provisions, although a sign on their doors pray, "no trespassing of food to the room, "we hid as we could to flank the figure of the usher. Never forget "Back to the Future" meeting that I went with my friend and his brother Luis Gustavo Antonio, continuous session that afternoon not numbered, we got to the toilet and when we had no place, ended up seeing the film on the steps of paradise, were different times, back to earth .
In 1997, during the screening of the film "Rescue" fire smoke filled the room and made eviction. The damage was substantial. The restaurant remained closed until August 1998, when it reopens fully renovated one room with seating for 550 spectators, with several seats that convert to a special one for couples. The complicated local evacuation, forced to delete some of the stalls to make it an emergency exit, the lobby was shortened leaving only one of the staircase, saw a new-sacacuartos candy store on the ground floor with access from the street Alcala and the premises despite not converted into mini-theaters lost the charm of the past endured through thick and thin but the crisis could be with him. It was sad to see that the meeting of 7 on a Saturday, only four retired couples who attended the screening, a room with all the advances of time and a perfect location. In August 2005 following the screening of "Ninnete" cinema Aragon closed forever. Then came the breakdown and this time the Court ngles, the head SFERA orphans he left us, at one end to which all contribute.
Aragon Cinema before its closure. 
the location today. - IBERIA FILM - 1956
opened in 1956 in the trendy El Carmen, another room located at No. 51 on the road to Aragon. His life was short even though the place had been built exclusively for the purpose and was a cozy room and modern. It stood at three floors and had a room with capacity for 1034 seats, distributed in courtyard and amphitheater. Also had an outdoor movie set on a plot Annex. Briefly disappeared in November 1963, perhaps due to the continued exploitation of the area real estate, in a short period of time, was replaced by an apartment building.
aerial photograph of the area in the 50's.
-CINE-1960 TEXAS
In the burgeoning area of \u200b\u200bPueblo Nuevo build another cinema in a courtyard. Had access from the street José del Hierro No. 37, through a spacious lobby that led us into the room with a capacity of 1122 locations spread over patio and amphitheater. Born out by the architect Don Cecilio Sánchez Robles, in collaboration with the surveyor Juan Ramon Angulo, the venue opened its doors in 1966, for its construction were used quality materials in stairs and hallways decoration was done with colored marble black, the plaster ceilings all enjoyed and air conditioning systems and hot air heating. The entire courtyard is lined floor to "linoleum, plastic, heavy duty pavement was beginning to be used frequently in this type of premises. The room was decorated all in red and was so far the most convenient and comfortable in the area. The cinema was owned by D. Fernando Reyzabal family, ending the monopoly of getting a great deal of room in Madrid at the time.
local Facade recently inaugurated. 
A view of the amphitheater. The cinema closed on January 7, 1981 to become a nightclub, which ended up taking final at this time which had not been turned into bingo, wedding hall or waiting for reform remained forgotten. The club was called "Scaler" and was a very popular local. The amphitheater of the court was divided by a glass partition which allowed him to have two tracks different in the same space. The club did not last more than five or six years, after a period of inactivity the site was dismantled and left transparent, he added another craft store in the back and he established "Telemadrid" in the beginning, after the occupied "Channel 7 TV" at that time that did not take off. Then used in television studios until more than two or three years, has become "Save me" super del Barrio, as its advertising. One more that passed away. Installed next to the cinema a café "Flor de Texas" pre-session Every day seemed overwhelmed by the huge crowds, the other a small store of nuts "The Castle", two businesses that were going to or painted. Currently still holds the two.
acup The place where the Channel 7 television. 
Aerial view of the crowd. - CINE LAS VEGAS - 1960
In the extension of Arturo Soria, Calle de los Hermanos García Noblejas 17, it debuted a new room, it was the CINE LAS VEGAS. The local was established in an inner courtyard and its entry was made through a large hall where the stairs of the amphitheater tore. The room was very large with a capacity of 1387 sites and had a steep slope made of wood that was developed for the screen. Closed on November 22, 1989, one of the last to fall in the area and after a long period was opened as a bingo hall, an activity that occupies today. A curious fact is that the place still has cinemas, installed on the first floor, which have never been opened, perhaps because of the strong presence of FILM-BOX, rival without competition.
bingo The current facade Vegas.
Aerial view of the film Las Vegas. - CINE CHANCELLOR -1964
Why not say, for many the most beloved movies of the neighborhood also had a magnificent hall in its basement, an unforgettable experience for our parents and that was the delight of more than one heavy in the 80's. The unforgettable "Chancellor" insert was constructed in a residential building in the affluent suburb of La Concepción, or read their advertising, "End of Avenida San Sebastian", specifically in the street Alcalde López Casero n.º 15. Abrió sus puertas en 1964 y era un local con 1290 butacas de aforo, con salidas directas a la calle en caso de siniestro, siendo propiedad de la Cinematográfica Canciller. Era un local elegante, decorado al gusto de la época, con un gran anfiteatro y un mayor patio de butacas. ¡Qué colas se llegaban a formar en sus puertas!. En 1987 cerró y en 1989 volvió a abrir reconvertido en 5 mini-salas con aforos de 233 butacas, 197 butacas, 128 butacas, y dos salas simétricas de 190 butacas. Al principio funcionaba bien, pero al igual que el Aragón se fué apagando poco a poco hasta que en el verano de 2007 sin más explicaciones, no volvió a abrir. Hay asociaciones que intentan proteger the building for cultural use but have not heard anything about it.
http://salvemoselcanciller.blogspot.com/ remains closed.
Neighbors surprised by the unexpected closure of the room.
Two images of the Chancellor Hall in the 80's. - mini cinema ALCALA-NORTH FILM-BOX -
The mother of the lamb, the cause of the death of his companions, and apologize that I do not like mini-movies, I think they are cold and impersonal, before remembered the film and local, not tomorrow would know if you saw in UGC Cine Cite or HERON City, are all equal. These mini-theaters FILM-BOX chain down on the second floor of the mall Alcalá Norte, built on a controversial field. Upon them I will not push, just to mention it has five rooms, and cafeteria and restaurant, great movie business. And who wants to know more .... me to go and see, is all that remains .
Sources: -MADRID AND CINEMA, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Onion and Mary G. Pascual Santa Eulalia.
- Street photographic QDQ http://es.qdq.com/scripts/QDQCallejero.aspx
- Special thanks to Juanjo Urbanity.es forum in Madrid to Heaven
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