Cineac

 

 

The Cineac (Cinéma d'Actualité) was a cinema chain set up by Pathé where the film newsreel was shown. In France, Pathé set up the first Cinéac and soon these news theatres were very successful, in 1934 there were twenty cinemas in Paris alone. In the Netherlands there was a Cineac in Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht (Filmac, Vredenburg) and Rotterdam. Continuous newsreel The programme lasted an hour, and consisted of a film newsreel and a few other films. It was repeated immediately as a continuous show. Visitors could enter and leave the cinema at any time, with the possibility of staying longer than the duration of the programme, and thus see the programme several times for the entrance fee.