Chinese moving pictures industry originated and developed in Shanghai. During the hundred years' growth and development of Chinese moving pictures industry, Shanghai made remarkable achievements. From the Orient nocturnal Paris then to the magical capital now, Shanghai left people an unforgettable impression by the movies produced with its original features branded as Shanghai style. This newly-arisen cinema is especially designed to demonstrate the untainted holiness authorized by the history of the industry, thus a hundred years later at present,both the orchestrators and the expected audience can have a good picture of the past which reminds people recall "the shattered period of time".

The Cinema is a constucture with 2 floors covering 4070 ㎡, it houses 8 showing chambers, each every chamber is designed by means of continuous shatterization of the existed pieces to create a multitude of spaces. The theme of the idea of the constructure means to destroy the completeness of a space to demonstrate the jumps and leaps in dimensions and time for a vivid reshow of the real life, and by the idea the constructure also means to revive the impressions now survived in the memories of the involved.