[1] Frank Stuart opened Oxford's first cinema, the Electric Theatre, in Castle Street, in 1910.

Also in 1910 work started to build Stuart's second cinema on land in Jeune Street behind the Elm Tree.

[3] In 1976 Bill Heine and Pablo Butcher[3] reopened the cinema as the Penultimate Picture Palace.

[5] For a month that summer it was squatted by the Oxford Freedom Network, which reopened it as Studio 6 Cinema.

In July 2009 Saied Marham sold it to Philippa Farrow and Jane Derricott, who installed a small refreshment bar in the northwest corner of the auditorium.