Grauman's Egyptian Theatre

Grauman's Egyptian Theatre is a famous theater in Hollywood (Los Angeles ), United States. It was opened in 1922. The exact address is 6712 Hollywood Boulevard.

History

The Egyptian, as it is called short, was built by Sid Grauman, who also built the nearby Grauman 's Chinese Theatre on Broadway and in Los Angeles the one million U.S. dollars Theatre. The cinema complex was for $ 800,000 within 18 months created by the Milwaukee Building Company.

The Egyptian was on 18 October 1922, the first movie premiere in Hollywood. The film Robin Hood of silent film stars Douglas Fairbanks was shown. In the year the film was not shown in any other cinema in Hollywood.

The layout and design of the cinema was taken over by other theaters in the United States. Some even called also Egyptian Theatre

The exterior of the cinema is held in a pseudo -Egyptian style, after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter in 1922 and the ensuing media frenzy took up additional buildings around the world. Carter discovered the grave, however, only two weeks after the opening of cinemas and an initially planned Hispanic style for the cinema was quickly modified in an Egyptian. Here, outside and inside also Egyptian drawings and hieroglyphs were applied in the cinema. The four massive columns at the main entrance have a diameter of 1.3 meters and a height of six meters.

Inside the complex was in a 13.7 meters wide and 45.7 meters long courtyard with fountains and palm trees of the input, which is designed so that there could take place the famous red carpet ceremonies.

Current Condition

In 1996, the complex for a symbolic dollar was sold to the American Cinematheque, with the obligation to spend it as a monument to its original style. The American Cinematheque organized fundraising for the renovation and introduced the cinema for cinema exhibitions. In 1998 the cinema was after a major renovation, which cost $ 12.8 million, reopened. During the renovation, a second auditorium was built. Originally a single room for 2,000 spectators was available, now it is a main hall for 616 spectators and a smaller 77 for spectators. The larger hall was named after philanthropist Lloyd E. Rigler, the smaller according to the director Steven Spielberg.