UPP
This is the page for Ultimate Picture Palace cinema, Jeune Street.
1995 - 2017
In 1995, the cinema re-opened as the Ultimate Picture Palace. As of 2017, the cinema continues to thrive.
1994
The cinema, which had been closed and unused for some time was squatted for a month, during which it was called the "Section 6 cinema", Section 6 being the part of the 1977 Criminal Law Act which makes it an offence for an owner to attempt to use or threaten violence to enter an occupied premises.
1976 - 1990
The cinema was called the Penultimate Picture Palace(PPP). In 1976 Bill Heine, the owner of the PPP invited his friend sculptor John Buckley to design its fixtures. For the facade he chose a figure reminiscent of Al Jolson with outstretched hands. The door handles were like Mae West's lips, and there was a female and a male figure above the toilet entrances, named Pearl and Dean. In 1986 Buckley made the famous shark at Heine's Headington house
Before then?
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