"The biggest hassle was that everything - tables, chairs, bar, projector, screen, the lot - had to fit through a 30cm by 40cm hole on the surface," Lazar said. "The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there. In A Secret Paris Cavern, The Real Underground Cinema 2004 09 09 By Jon Henley in Paris - The Guardian - UK Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement. With their long experience of such matters, the group's technicians had little difficulty piping in electricity and phone lines. There were, he added, maybe 10 other groups in Paris, all of a roughly similar size, involved in similarly creative, if murky, projects beneath the streets of the capital. With the constraints that come with operating on a limited budget, it’s easy to dismiss these films as amateur and incompetent, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Bars. "Do not try to find us." Some sect or secret society, maybe. In September 2004, during a training exercise in uncharted parts of the catacombs of Paris, the police discovered a secret fully equipped cinema that could house 20 viewers, a fully-stocked bar, a dining room, and a series of saloons along with professionally installed electricity and … Part I: Entrances On August 23, 2004, they discovered a cinema 18m beneath Paris. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/travel/french-movies-paris.html "When the police finally worked out where we were getting in, they couldn't believe it was the right place. We move between each network. The roof is the perfect place from which to watch the fireworks.". Patrick Alk, a photographer who has published a book on the urban underground exploration movement and claims to be close to the group, told RTL radio the cavern's discovery was "a shame, but not the end of the world". The project took some 18 months to complete, though most of the hard work - including shifting a large pile of rubble off the terraces, and shoring up a couple of walls - was done in three or four weekends. "As far as we know, they've been reduced to going for theft of electricity," said Lazar. The UX (short for Urban eXperiment) is an underground organization that improves hidden corners of Paris. … After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access. They got it on to national TV news. Log in / Sign up . They’re Bigger Than You Think. Français. August 1944. United States, 1945. There were "a dozen more where that one came from," he said. kottke.org, loving you since 1998 home about archive podcast newsletter membership! CineAqua is located in the 16th Arrondissement at the heart of Paris and is entirely underground. Erleben Sie die Vielfalt unterschiedlicher Produktlinien von Yves Saint Laurent, je abgestimmt auf Ihren individuellen Geschmack und den Anlass Ihres Kaufs. On August 23, 2004, they discovered a cinema 60 feet beneath Paris. But since 1955, for security reasons, it has been an offence to "penetrate into or circulate within" the rest of the network. High resolution movie poster image for Paris Underground (1945). "We have no idea whatsoever," a police spokesman said. “It’s become a leisure activity, like going to the theatre or the cinema,” says Alain Plumey, curator of Paris’s Musée de l’Érotisme. They've seen a tiny fraction of what we do, and it's a big deal for them.".