Casino Cinema, Nairobi (1964 advert)

The photo below on the right shows an advertisement in the Daily Nation for the film Rustom-E-Baghdad, Aug 1964!!...Wow!! 2nd week with continuous shows every day....there were around 170,000 Asians in Kenya around 1964 and 35% of Nairobi's population was Asian!!

                                                    

Regal Theatre, Mombasa bosses with Indian Dancers around 1950-1955 at home in old City House!!

 can anyone recognize the Indian dancers??

                                                                      

     

Kenya Cinema, Mombasa stopped operating as a cinema on Sunday May 23rd 2010

 The last film to play at the Kenya Cinema, Mombasa was 'Prince' with Vivek Oberoi, Aruna Shields, Nandana Sen, and Neeru Singh. and Indian film with English subtitles.

By this time Indian films were just shown on Friday, Saturday and Sundays.

This film opened in India on Apr 9th 2010 and was a box office flop!

The reasons for the cinema closing appears to be the continued decline in film attendance, the success of Nyali Cinemax, the upcoming move from celluloid 35mm to digital in Kenya the following year and the exit of Raman Samji Kala!

After this Kenya Cinema was rented to a Church

Cinema listings Jan 12th 1968 East African Standard

Kenya and 20th Century Cinemas are not listed...probably this was during the 3 months period or so when 20th Century Fox (EA) Ltd closed down their cinemas in protest of the newly formed government Kenya Film Corporation that wanted to be the sole film distributors. 

In a few months the cinemas reopened after a settlement. 

Both 20th Century Fox and KFC then operated as film distributors!