Rats-Lichtspiele in Osterode / Germany

Cinema Rats-Lichtspiele (Council's cinema) opened  on October 14, 1949 with the German film Der Bagnosträfling.

The large hall of the the 1550s timber-framed house "Ratswaage" (Council's Scale) was expanded into a modern cinema with 394 seats.

It closed in 1966 and converted into a discotheque. The former cinema hall was destroyed by fire in 1969, but the gable end remained.

The cinema is advertising the film Die größte Schau der Welt / The Greatest Show on Earth, a 1952 US-American Hollywood Circus film. The German premiere was on December 25, 1952.