{"id":8,"date":"2017-01-18T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinemavox.ma\/cinemavox\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2023-10-24T13:04:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T13:04:30","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cinemavox.ma\/cinemavox\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinema Vox"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"8\" class=\"elementor elementor-8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ffce3c0 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7ffce3c0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dcdb9c6 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"dcdb9c6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-337c10b elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"337c10b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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elementor - v3.16.0 - 17-10-2023 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The inspiration for Rick\u2019s Caf\u00e9 Am\u00e9ricain in the film Casablanca<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d4c58fd elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"d4c58fd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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elementor - v3.16.0 - 17-10-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">It is one of the most famous lines in film history: \u201cOf all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.\u201d The speaker is Rick, the enigmatic caf\u00e9 owner played by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Humphrey_Bogart\">Humphrey Bogart<\/a>. She is Ilsa, played by Ingrid Bergman, on the run with her husband from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nazism\">Nazis<\/a> and unexpectedly bumping into her former lover whom she met in Paris when she thought her husband was dead. The year is 1942. <span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">But what is the town? The obvious answer is\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Casablanca\">Casablanca<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">, the title of the film, but like many things that might seem obvious at the outset, the reality is rather more complicated.<\/span><\/div><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p>For the city of the film is cosmopolitan: full of spies, double agents, adventurers and soldiers.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Casablanca\">Casablanca\u00a0<\/a>at that time was an industrial port, more concerned with commerce than espionage. In contrast, Tangier International Zone, though occupied by Franco\u2019s Spain since 1940, continued to be a crucial transit point for the refugees streaming in from Nazi-occupied Europe.<\/p><p>Between 1926 and 1956, when Morocco achieved independence, the country was divided into three different parts: Spanish Morocco, French Morocco, and the International Zone of Tangier. The International Zone was governed by a body called the Committee of Control, which consisted of the consuls of Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c11f45e e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c11f45e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d1ee3fa e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d1ee3fa\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a99184 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"5a99184\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"107\" height=\"58\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemavox.ma\/cinemavox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/11.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-39\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4c4354b elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4c4354b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tangier_International_Zone\">The Tangier Convention<\/a>\u00a0of 1923 created a duty-free zone for this region. In August 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union received seats on the committee, although the Soviets never exercised this right. By 1942, the year the film was set, Franco\u2019s Spain had taken over Tangier with the permission of Nazi Germany, but it remained effectively a neutral zone, where spies mingled with diplomats, businessmen with black marketeers, soldiers with refugees.<p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Many people are in no doubt that this international city was the film-maker\u2019s inspiration. \u201cCasablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz in 1942, was inspired by the international ambience of Tangier,\u201d writes Rachid Tafersiti, the president of the Boughaz Association, which preserves the heritage of Tangier, in\u00a0<em>L\u2019Image de la Ville entre Cinema et Urbanisme.<\/em><\/p><p>Gambling, for example, while illegal in Morocco as in virtually every Muslim country, was known to take place in various dens and nightclubs in Tangier in the 1930s and \u201840s. In Casablanca, a stricter, more formal city, there is no evidence that it was either encouraged or indulged. Captain Renault would never have been able to close down the casino in the film, nor collect his winnings, because there would have been no tables on which to place a bet. Eventually, the first officially sanctioned casino opened in Tangier in the 1950s.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e754c84 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e754c84\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-701da2f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"701da2f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"493\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemavox.ma\/cinemavox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-54\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemavox.ma\/cinemavox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2-1.jpg 493w, https:\/\/cinemavox.ma\/cinemavox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b9e902 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3b9e902\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ed185e1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"ed185e1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"106\" height=\"59\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemavox.ma\/cinemavox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/pianist.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-43\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a31f8f0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a31f8f0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>It is fairly clear therefore that Tangier International Zone, a place almost unlike any other in the world, was the milieu of the film. But what about the bar where the main action takes place? Everything we see of the bar at the beginning of the film, from its neon sign reading Rick\u2019s Caf\u00e9 Am\u00e9ricain, to the elaborate carved wooden doors and tiled floors, potted palms, arches, screens and hanging lamps, with a piano playing in the corner and a roulette table in another room, was the imagination of a Hollywood set designer.<\/p><p>Former American diplomat Kathy Kriger, who has recently copied the set in her Rick\u2019s Caf\u00e9 in an old mansion between the medina and the seafront in Casablanca, admits her own place is a recreation. However, in her book\u00a0<em>Rick\u2019s Caf\u00e9<\/em>, she does not give an alternative location that inspired the screenwriters.<\/p><p>This may well be because the inspiration was elsewhere, 333 kilometres along the coast, in the same city that created the mood of the film. Tangier boasts a number of potential locations. First, there is Madame Porte\u2019s Salon de Th\u00e9, which served what writer Alec Waugh considered the best gin martini in the world. However, that was only established in 1954, 12 years after the film was released.<\/p><p>Another candidate is the Caid\u2019s Bar at the Minzah Hotel. The Minzah is the most enduring luxury hotel in Tangier, where most of the visiting VIPs chose to stay. A case can also be made for Dean\u2019s Bar, which is close to the medina, the old Arab quarter. Robin Maugham described it in his\u00a0<em>North African Notebook<\/em>, published in 1948:<\/p><p>\u201cAt Dean\u2019s Bar gather the bogus barons and furtive bankers, the tipsy journalists and sober Jewish businessmen, the young diplomats and glamorous spies, the slender French and Moroccan girls, the English self-styled Colonels and their friends, the foreign agents \u2013 the highly-coloured collection of fake and genuine, cruel and kind, which forms the international society of Tangier.\u201d<\/p><p>According to the couple who wrote the original play\u00a0<em>Everybody Comes to Rick\u2019s<\/em>, on which the film was based, their own model bar was in the south of France. But three other screenwriters worked on their text and changed and updated it considerably.<\/p><p>And there is another candidate, more compelling than all of the above: the bar at the Cinema Vox. The Vox opened its doors in 1935, and its bar quickly became well known as a place one could muster away from peering eyes, ideal for spies and the underworld. According to Paul Fairclough, a journalist at\u00a0<em>The Guardian,<\/em>\u00a0one of England\u2019s leading newspapers, this was the definitive inspiration for Rick\u2019s Caf\u00e9:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b73f22f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b73f22f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"177\" height=\"55\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemavox.ma\/cinemavox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/trumpet.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-44\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4404fb6 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4404fb6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-82ffa92 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"82ffa92\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-671b106 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"671b106\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p>\u201cMorocco\u2019s Vox in Tangier was Africa\u2019s biggest when it opened in 1935, with 2,000 seats and a retractable roof. As Tangier was in Spanish territory, the theatre\u2019s wartime bar heaved with spies, refugees and underworld hoods, securing its place in cinematic history as the inspiration for Rick\u2019s Caf\u00e9 in\u00a0<em>Casablanca<\/em>,\u201d wrote Fairclough in\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0in April 2011.<\/p><p>Cinema Vox quickly became one of Tangier\u2019s most popular cinemas, a meeting place for locals and expatriates alike. Larbi Yacoubi, an actor and costume designer, recalls that: \u201cTangier was a nest of spies, in the Petit Socco you could never know who you were really sitting next to\u201d. Indeed it can be said that everybody came to the Cinema Vox, even if you couldn\u2019t be too sure of his or her identity or allegiance.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p>\u201cIn a cinema like the Vox, you could rent a box, it functioned like a theatre. The Vox is bricked up today, it was in the Petit Socco, near the hotel Fuentes \u2013 you can still see the sign,\u201d says Rachid Tafersiti.<\/p><p>The cinema Vox building, complete with the bar as the model for Rick\u2019s Caf\u00e9, is about to be rebuilt, with a barman ready to serve gin martinis for the first time for more than 50 years, and a piano player tickling the ivories.<\/p><p>Having located the bar, and given the overwhelming argument in favour of Tangier being the inspiration for the setting, why then did Warner Brothers not just name the film Tangier? There are a number of reasons. The first is that Casablanca was modelled on a 1938 hit film called Algiers. Hedy Lamarr, its star, was originally billed to play Ilsa, the part that Ingrid Bergman turned into her own. With Lamarr in the role, the producers did not want to draw too obvious a comparison between the two films.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-709a0d8 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"709a0d8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e57a8fe elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"e57a8fe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"798\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemavox.ma\/cinemavox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/man-from-tangier-movie-poster-1957-1020698773.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-35\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemavox.ma\/cinemavox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/man-from-tangier-movie-poster-1957-1020698773.jpg 520w, https:\/\/cinemavox.ma\/cinemavox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/man-from-tangier-movie-poster-1957-1020698773-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d7e4362 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d7e4362\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f40fab elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3f40fab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>More importantly, there were fears that if the title sounded too similar to the earlier title, Algiers and Tangier, American audiences might assume that they had already seen the film and not bother going to the new one. Written in the American style, as Tangiers with an \u2018s\u2019 at the end, the confusion between Algiers and Tangiers becomes ever more tangible.<\/p><p>There is one final reason that surely is undeniable, especially to an English speaker\u2019s ear: Casablanca is one of those words that just sounds good. The city\u2019s original name was Anfa. This was changed to Casa Branca when the Portuguese took control. It only became Casablanca when the Spanish assumed Portugal\u2019s empire, and the French kept the name because they liked it.<\/p><p>As Simona Schneider says in\u00a0<em>La Pens\u00e9e de Midi<\/em>:\u00a0<em>Portrait de la ville en images<\/em>: \u201cIt was Tangier that inspired the famous film Casablanca, but the producers decided to change the title because the name Casablanca sounded more romantic, beter for publicity.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cOf all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine,\u201d as Rick says in the film. Even if it was the wrong bar, in the wrong town.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68bd7ef e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"68bd7ef\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0899672 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"0899672\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5b233e4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5b233e4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Africa's rich cinema heritage<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bd8f58e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bd8f58e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>From Boer guerrillas in 1909 at Durban\u2019s Electric Theatre to the Vox in wartime Tangier, inspiration for Rick\u2019s Cafe in Casablanca<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b2d8d1c elementor-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon\" data-id=\"b2d8d1c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon\">\n\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-quote-left\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b3de95f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b3de95f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The continent\u2019s first film show was in Johannesburg in South Africa in May 1896, but Durban can claim the first permanent cinema. The Electric Theatre opened in 1909 with what purported to be newsreel of the Boer war, with scenes of Boer guerillas taking on the British, but in fact actors filmed on Hampstead Heath.<\/p><p>Kenya\u2019s Theatre Royal opened in Nairobi in 1912. It attracted the African premiere of Intolerance, DW Griffith\u2019s epic, in 1916, months after plague in the city.<\/p><p>Ethiopia\u2019s first cinema arrived in the 1920s with the Club de l\u2019Union, a notorious bar and dancehall in Addis Ababa that was soon known as Saitan Bet \u2013 House of the Devil. It is still in use, part of the less poetically-named Mega Theatre complex. Eritrea\u2019s capital Asmara is a cinematic treasure; under Italian rule in the 1930s, 10 art deco cinemas, with names like the Roma and the Croce Rosse, were built within a few years. The intimate, low-key Cinema Dante was already there in 1910, the oldest in Asmara and one of the earliest in Africa.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e865131 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e865131\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ce82f7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"5ce82f7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"268\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemavox.ma\/cinemavox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/vox.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-46\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2671f10 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2671f10\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Morocco\u2019s Vox in Tangier was Africa\u2019s biggest when it opened in 1935, with 2,000 seats and a retractable roof. As Tangier was in Spanish territory, the theatre\u2019s wartime bar heaved with spies, refugees and underworld hoods, securing its place in cinematic history as the inspiration for Rick\u2019s Cafe in Casablanca.<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c41b3e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2c41b3e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Ghana\u2019s petite Rex Cinema, opened in 1937, is Accra\u2019s only alternative to its brash new multiplex. Its status is indeterminate, with a visitor as likely to witness a prayer meeting or a dance as a film. Chad\u2019s government has spent \u00a31.3m refurbishing its only cinema, the Normandy in Ndjamena, which until April had been closed for 20 years.<\/p><p>The 1950s building is not Africa\u2019s oldest or largest theatre but does signal hope for renewal of Africa\u2019s cinematic heritage.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0453eeb elementor-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon\" data-id=\"0453eeb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon\">\n\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-quote-right\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ba8c4f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3ba8c4f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2011\/jun\/02\/africa-cinema-history\"><em>Paul Fairclough<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/h3><p><strong><em>Thursday 2 June 2011 17.24 BST<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-33787dc elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"33787dc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2011\/jun\/02\/africa-cinema-history\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"85\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemavox.ma\/cinemavox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/theguardian-300x85.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-49\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemavox.ma\/cinemavox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/theguardian-300x85.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemavox.ma\/cinemavox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/theguardian-768x217.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemavox.ma\/cinemavox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/theguardian-1024x289.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemavox.ma\/cinemavox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/theguardian.jpg 1772w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-07e0f24 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"07e0f24\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0932b40 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"0932b40\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a71a54a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a71a54a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Bibliography<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fe9473e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fe9473e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Everybody Comes to Dean\u2019s by Francis Poole DT328.1 P6. 2009<\/p><p>Rick\u2019s Caf\u00e9 by Kathy Kriger PN1968.K3. 2012<\/p><p>North African Notebook by Robin Maugham DT177. M6. 1949<\/p><p>Ecrire sur le Cin\u00e9ma Smihi, Moumen 2006 [Tangier], Slaiki Fr\u00e8res, 2006. 1st edition. Series: Id\u00e9es clandestines<\/p><p>Occident, L. La Petite Illustration, Revue hebdomadaire. N.398- Cin\u00e9ma: N.13.8 1928 Paris, La Petite Illustration, 1927-1931. 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