With the closing film "Modern" square of the League in some way is going to end, in an irreversible way, an entire era.
The golden age of cinema is attributable to the first silent film (1895 - late 20's), and after its sound that exploded in popularity until its climax, which coincides with the advent of television.
A struggle for the survival of cinemas for some time, sees proliferation, also in Alexandria, the rooms that are adapting to new demands.
not larger cinemas, now is the era of multiplexes or "multiplex", as locals call it where they are screened at the same time a number of films.
The advent of television, not only in Italy, he decreed the slow but inexorable decline of traditional cinemas.
As regards Italy, it all began in the '50s, when the success of the TV show "Double or nothing?" forced the local cinema of the time to stop the program, on Thursday night at 21, to allow the vision to the spectators in attendance.
In fact, while not being left with the empty hall on Thursday evening, all the local cinema in the city had to wear suitable television. But the competition at that time was limited to the transmission, televisions were still few and not very popular at the economic point of view that the damage was, after all, limited.
RAI broadcast on one network and for an extended period of time, more or less until the '60s and '70s, things were kept within the limits of a peaceful status quo. The cinema in Italy boasted unforgettable directors like De Sica, Fellini, Germi, Bridges .... actresses like Sophia Loren, Mangano, Gina Lollobrigida, Lisi, Ralli and so on and ...
This therefore enables the local Italian film, and Alexandrians in particular, to survive for another few decades the inevitable process of involution of the cinemas that is decimating the number considerably. And
Alexandria boasted several local film, as indeed it was full the entire peninsula, from countless church halls. In Alexandria we remember the 'Aurora' located in the courtyard overlooking the church Our Lady of Suffrage, in the populous neighborhood rink, the "Teatro San Francesco" (the only one still exists but no longer used as a cinema), the arena's summer Piazza Santa Maria del Castello, this lies in the courtyard where there is still the residence of the pastor ... but there was no country that does not boast its own cinema often located within their parishes. About
summer arenas, so-called "secular", to quote the Splendor at the foot of the bridge, but also the one that took its name from the adjacent machine factory "Mino," then existing in via Buonarroti, the Christ.
were also many cinemas important, from that of the first vision as the aforementioned film "Modern" Step family, the "Galleria", the family Guerci, l '"Alexandria" was originally located at Liberty Square in place of today's Banca Nazionale del work, the "Course", set in place of former cinema "Dante", until then the family Massari, better known as the Alexandrian "u Jason" because of the fact that the heating was not among his best qualities; the current "Theatre", which was also built on the same site on which stood the glorious "Cine Teatro Marini," although he was relentlessly torn down in pure Art Nouveau.
Then there were the premises of the second and third vision including stood the "After Work Railwaymen", later renamed "Amber", who had the feature of being able to project both indoors and outdoors by simply turning the projector in the cabin, and the "Victory" today multiplex "Kristall".
Now that world, in Alexandria, remain active only the "Gallery", the 'Alexandrian "and the" Kristall "in addition to the" Teatro Comunale ", but they all now have to deal with a newcomer in this apparently unstoppable whirlwind of closures. It dates back to last May, in neighboring Spinetta Marengo, is named "UCI Cinemas Alexandria and is a Multiplex able to put something on the bill as nine titles in a single day.
apparently is making a giant life difficult for the last survivors, as already has something like 150 000 tickets sold in six months of operation.
short, the cinema will never die as such, is adapting to the times. Of course, like never before, competition with television, DVD, and who knows what other strange things pop up again in the future, will further reduce the already small number of cinemas, but there is always someone who wants to attend, emotion, a film projected on the big screen.
