It is the oldest cinema in the world. TheEden Theatre cinema in La Ciotat has received a nice news recently. It is now listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. In the book, it says "Oldest, purpose-built cinema in operation", the oldest cinema in operation in the world. Renowned in the commune, the Eden is also known abroad, the proof! Michel Cornille, the President of Lumières de l'Eden, recalls that for forty years, many people have been working to preserve this heritage monument. "Thanks to the hard work of our documentalist Guy Anfossi, relayed in English by Vanessa Verdi, it is an administrative file of more than two years of research which finds its reward and comes to engrave in the marble our long affirmed convictions" he congratulates himself