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Ian Price
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From: Denver, CO
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posted 01-03-2003 09:03 PM

Ah hell!

I worked for a theatre that had The Rocky Horror Picture Show booked for 14 years solid. Hell, I only worked there for 5 years myself. They moved the print to another theatre and it is still playing.

Do I win?

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James R. Hammonds, Jr
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posted 01-03-2003 09:56 PM

Yeah, but I bet most of the time it only played weekends at midnight and maybe also on halloween.
Cheater. [Razz]

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Jason Black
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posted 01-03-2003 11:38 PM

Brad..

I though I had forgotten abou 'Choda Boy'...

ROFLMAO..... [Embarrassed]

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Alan Plester
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posted 01-04-2003 04:23 PM

star wars or grease i`m not sure,but it was 3 shows a day for 12 weeks

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Gracia L. Babbidge
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posted 01-05-2003 11:17 PM

Well, I'm not sure about the other two theaters I've worked at, and my current theater has been open for just shy of three years...

But I think out current record is "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" - which we still have playing two shows a day ... and have been running since August 9th!

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Robert Golding
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posted 01-06-2003 01:00 AM

When I went into the Army in 1966, the Crest Theatre in Sacramento was running "THE SOUND OF MUSIC". When I got out of the Army in 1969 they still were running it. I not sure how much longer it ran.

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John Pytlak
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posted 01-06-2003 09:30 AM

Claude asked: "I am wondering what had kept this print from fading like many others that were released years later."

One possibility is cooler storage conditions in a northern climate like Canada. A print stored in an unconditioned film exchange in LA or Dallas was much more likely to encounter fade-producing heat or humidity.

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Bill Gabel
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posted 01-06-2003 11:37 AM

Michaels

quote:
In Southern California "GWTW" played many months during it's
1967 re-release at the Carthay Circle Theatre.

During 1967 re-release of "GWTW" in 70MM. It played the Carthay Circle
Theatre from Oct. 14, 1967 to mid Nov. of 1968. The next film in the
Carthay Circle Theatre was "The Shoes of the Fisherman". Following
the "Shoes of the Fisherman" engagement the theatre closed and was
torn down. Two of the DP70's went to the Bruin Theatre in 1978 for
the opening of "Capricorn One". Today the only original parts from
the Carthay machines are the bases and the head on the number one
machine, minus the intermittent. The number two machines head was
replaced in the late 80's.

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Michael Coate
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posted 01-08-2003 05:27 PM

Bump.

I made some edits to my first post in the thread (Page 2). I had intended to add some San Diego roadshow info for The Sound Of Music since that film has been mentioned many times throughout this discussion, but ended up adding some additional bits of info for Star Wars as well.

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Daryl C. W. O'Shea
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posted 01-08-2003 05:31 PM

Longest I remember is Titanic at 26 weeks straight gone for 2 and back for another 12 straight.

I remember running tons of movies for 10-12 weeks straight, in a twin theatre.

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Paul Linfesty
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posted 01-08-2003 05:36 PM

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When I went into the Army in 1966, the Crest Theatre in Sacramento was running "THE SOUND OF MUSIC". When I got out of the Army in 1969 they still were running it. I not sure how much longer it ran.

In 1966, THE SOUND OPF MUSIC was on its roadshow engagement at the Alhambra in downtown Sacramento. In 1969, the crest was showing a mop-up release prior to Fox putting the film in storage (in the U.S. only) until its 1973 re-release.

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Paul Linfesty
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posted 01-08-2003 05:41 PM

In Bakersfield, E.T. was the longest-running film for a continuous first-run engagement , making it to a full year at the UA Movies. During the single screen era, Deliverance held the record for first-run, playing 13 weeks at one location. However, movies had a HUGE theatre life after first-run engagements back through the 60's and 70's. When adding in all the second, third and drive-in runs locally, for example, The Graduate had about 5 months worth of engagements locally.

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Michael Coate
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posted 01-08-2003 07:01 PM

Bill Gabel wrote:

quote:
The next film in the Carthay Circle Theatre was "The Shoes of the Fisherman".

In 70mm?

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Two of the DP70's went to the Bruin Theatre in 1978 for the opening of "Capricorn One". Today the only original parts from the Carthay machines are the bases and the head on the number one machine, minus the intermittent. The number two machines head was replaced in the late 80's.

Do you happen to know when subwoofers were installed (if at all) at the Bruin for 70mm-Dolby presentations? I ask because I was recently told a humorous story by a former Bruin projectionist about the director of a very popular movie who attended a screening there in the early 1980s after the projection staff had installed subs (or something that could reproduce a similar effect) and the filmmaker flipped out having never heard his film in that manner before.

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Bill Gabel
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posted 01-08-2003 07:41 PM

Hi Michael

"Shoes" was a big feature from MGM, Carthay had a 70MM run of it.
On the Bruin, I think the subs came when they THX-ed the house
in the early 80's. Because all the Fox/Mann houses at that time
had Voice of the Theatres behind the screen.

Over at the Avco, they had a asst. manager that would bring his
girl friend back stage and sit [Eek!]

on the sub cabinets during
the THX Broadway logo. [Big Grin]

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Michael Coate
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posted 01-08-2003 08:23 PM

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On the Bruin, I think the subs came when they THX-ed the house in the early 80's. Because all the Fox/Mann houses at that time had Voice of the Theatres behind the screen.

Didn't they put in subs at the Village for their so-called Megasound engagement of Altered States? That would have been a few years before THX came along.

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Over at the Avco, they had a asst. manager that would bring his girl friend back stage and sit on the sub cabinets during the THX Broadway logo.

Sounds like fun! Are you sure "sitting" was the only thing the manager and his girlfriend were doing backstage??? [Smile]

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