Cinesa – Compañía de Iniciativas y Espectáculos, S.A., trading as Cinesa, is a Spanish film exhibition company founded in 1944. It currently has 35 complexes and 417 cinemas throughout Spain. The company is part of the Odeon Cinemas Group, a group that operates in several European countries such as Spain, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Italy and Portugal. Since 2016, Odeon Cinemas Group is owned by AMC Theatres.
History
In 1944 Barcelona producer Alfredo Matas and businessman José Arquer joined forces to open a luxury complex on Avenida Diagonal in Barcelona. The Cine Windsor was the result of this partnership, a place that not only offered film screenings, but also a bar, a restaurant and a pocket theatre, thus becoming a cultural meeting point in the Catalan capital.[1]
It was in 1958 that an innovative technology was introduced at the Cine Windsor: the Cinerama projection system made its appearance, featuring a curved screen that encompassed the viewer's entire field of vision.[2] This revolutionary technology combined three images projected from different projectors in a synchronised manner, providing viewers with a unique and immersive visual experience.