Changes

== 2011 - 2017 present ==

In == 2009 -2011 Becky Hallsmith bought the UPP and "set[s] about restoring the cinema to its former glory"<ref>http://www.uppcinema.com/about/history</ref>. In the same year a film about the cinema, entitled "[http://www.picturepalace.org.uk/ The Ultimate Survivor]" premiered.==

In 2014 2009 Philippa Farrow and Jane Derricott bought the cinema held and installed a (successful) [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/uppcinema/some-like-it-soft-final-stage-new bar, but put the UPP up for sale again after only a couple of-our-cinema-restor Kickstarter campaign] to raise money for new seatsyears.

As of 2017, it continues to thrive and is a Grade II listed cinema <ref>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/nov/15/cine== 1994 -files-ultimate-picture-house-oxford</ref>. 2009 ==

== Brothers Saied and Zaid Marham acquired the cinema in 1994 and restored the cinema's art deco façade for its re- 2011 ==opening as the Ultimate Picture Palace(UPP).

In 1995, the cinema It re-opened as the Ultimate Picture Palace (UPP)on 4 June 1996, with a showing of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2 Blade Runner].

8 young homeless people were able to find temporary accommodation in the upstairs projection room<ref>https://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/writings/section-six-cinema.pdf</ref>. An [https://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/writings/section-six-cinema.pdf account of the occupation] was published in Burning Fuse magazine.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Heine Bill Heine ] acquired the cinema, and changed its name to the Penultimate Picture Palace(PPP). He The name came about because his bank manager described the scheme as "not quite the ultimate in bad ideas, but the penultimate" <ref>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/nov/15/cine-files-ultimate-picture-house-oxford</ref>. Heine invited his friend sculptor John Buckley to design its fixtures. For the facade he chose a figure reminiscent of Al Jolson with outstretched hands. The door handles were like Mae West's lips, and there was a female and a male figure above the toilet entrances, named Pearl and Dean. In 1986 Buckley made the famous [http://headington.org.uk/shark/ shark] at Heine's Headington house. The cinema closed on 16 March 1994, the last movie shown was, perhaps ironically, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095765/ Cinema Paradiso].

After the manager Horace Froude was called up for war service, the cinema lay abandoned for many years. The last film showing was on 9 June 1917.

Local entertainment magnate Frank Stuart, who also owned Oxford's first cinema, the Electric Theatre on Castle Street and the East Oxford Theatre (now known as the [[106|Old Music Hall|106]]). In addition he was the licensee of the Elm Tree pub and the cinema was built in the stable yard of that pub to a design by architect John Wilkins. The cinema opened its doors on 24 February 1911 with a (invitation-only) showing of the 1910 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372159/ The Bad Man and the Preacher], starring Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson and John B. O'Brien <ref>http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/opinions/blogs/8929309.display/</ref>.