Cinema Regio Ibiza

Cinema

From our passion for cinema, our way of life has been born since 1931.

Because we are a family that loves the seventh art and the authenticity of traditional cinema.

Video Torres: With a dedication to the movie rental and sale sector for almost 30 years, starting with the VHS, Beta, 2000 format and later with the new DVD and Blue-Ray formats for rent and sale to the public with a wide range of rental games of all consoles, old and current. Counting on great professionals for the rental and direct sales service. The electronics and electricity store, with an experience backed by its more than 60 years specialized in the sector, always being at the forefront of Technology and the latest advances in image and sound. Counting on great professionals for personalized advice and sales. Currently the electronics store is a distributor of the major brands in the market, covering several fields: Hifi, High-End and Pro. Official distributor of: Bose, Yamaha, Panasonic, Loewe, Jamo, DynAudio, Denon, TDK, D.A.S, Pioneer, JBL, Harman / Kardon, Infinity, Onkyo, ATC, McIntosh, ClearAudio, Atlascables, Bowers & Wilkins (B&W). Being present in the large specialized websites of the sector: LyricAudio, Bose, SarteAudio. On February 18, 2011, the Torres Family received from the Sant Antoni de Portmany Town Hall the Municipality's Gold Medal. This medal constitutes the City Council's highest distinction to reward the extraordinary trajectory of personalities, entities or corporations that have stood out for their merits and service for the benefit, improvement or enhancement of the municipality of Sant Antoni de Portmany. The Torres Family received this medal for the pioneering and continued dissemination of film culture in Sant Antoni de Portmany. The history of cinema in Sant Antoni is closely linked to the Torres family, owners of the two cinemas that exist in the town of Portmany: the Torres and Regio cinemas. 80 years ago, Vicente Torres Ferrer, started the journey of the cinema in Sant Antoni, they called him in "Vicentet de cana marca" that with the help of his wife and children, inaugurated the Torres Cinema on April 5, 1931 and the films that they were projected to be mute. The projector was rented and the operator arrived mounted on a cart pulled by a donkey from “Vila”, with his whole family, he did his work on Saturday and Sunday and after charging five pesetas he returned to Ibiza. The impact among the inhabitants was as resounding as in the capital and since it was the largest venue in the town, it was used to do variety shows and even circus sessions. The music came from a jukebox where hits from the same origin as most of the movies, America; one of them for example was "Stars and Stripes". The surrounding countrymen, who had gotten a diffuse idea about what the invention of the cinema was about, sometimes went to town and when they saw the advertising posters of the film, they entered the house and wanted to pay as if they had seen the function. Perhaps his power of imagination was running wild without the need for any stimulus other than photographs. The Civil War also had an impact on this world, and the same thing that happened in other parts of the island, the Torres Cinema was occupied by the military and would not open again until 1940, when the “sound ", Specifically with the film" The mysterious eyes of London "(1940) with Bela Lugosi and with posterity the" color ". Years passed, and his son Roberto Torres Prats took over and his ability and imagination when it comes to taking advantage of the technical issues of his work deserves to be commented on, inventor of curious devices that, if he had patented some, perhaps would have made fortune. For example, in order not to have to stop the projection - something unavoidable in those times - due to the change of rolls, he devised a system whereby on the same foot he places two chronos (mechanisms through which the tape passes) and only a flashlight and a target that moved from one side of the foot to the other on some metal rails, so that the change of roll was not noticeable. Or also, due to the fact of having two joint rooms, one for winter and one for summer, it was made with a single projector that was placed in between, to orient it in one direction or another according to the needs. And, according to him, he was always thinking about how to improve or incorporate the new technical advances that the industry was proposing; This is the case of Cinemascope, a format that he premiered with “La túnica Sagrada” (1953). With the passage of time in 1972 the Regio Cinema was inaugurated after 10 years of hard work and with the support of his wife (na Maria des Cine) and their children, with the film "Love Story", later incorporating the Dolby Stereo sound with the movie "The Wall" by Pink Floyd (1982), by Alan Parker, with