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Posted by Sean Weitzel (Member # 244) on 02-18-2000, 02:17 AM:
Just picked this up from rec.arts.movies.tech - Mark Lensenmayer wrote:
The Cinerama Preservation Society has announced in its latest newsletter
that Cinerama screenings will end in Dayton this April. A new owner has
taken control of the facillity, and they want to put back in the seats
removed for the big screen and add a stage for small musical events.
It's been a great ride for many of us on R.A.M.T., with many of the
regulars heading to Dayton for a look at Old 3-Eyes.
Each of the 4 films will be shown for one last time.
April 1 -- THIS IS CINERAMA
April 2 -- CINERAMA HOLIDAY
April 8 -- SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD
April 9 -- HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Cinerama in Dayton is dead. Long live Cinerama in Seattle.
Mark L.
Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 02-18-2000, 02:38 AM:
OH SHIT!Missed it again. I hope Seattle keeps going. I had a coupe of friends who went to Dayton and said it was great. I have only heard the tales, I have never seen Cinerama.
Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 02-18-2000, 05:02 PM:
By all means go go go to see Cinerama if you can. The print of HTWWW makes anything filmic I've ever seen in my lifetime look like kids stuff. Its absolutely amazing.......and that soundtrack will make your jaw drop. Ya gotta see it, and hear it, to believe it.
Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 02-23-2000, 11:40 AM:
I saw "Windjammer" in 3-strip Cinemiracle at Buffalo's Granada Theatre as a 10-year old kid in 1958. The memory of that big screen experience still lives on.------------------
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Posted by Harry Robinson (Member # 265) on 02-25-2000, 11:04 AM:
I talked with John Harvey (the fellow who is responsible for the Cinerama revival) yesterday. He is working on some technology that could make it possible to take the Cinerama films on tour. It seems to me it would go great on both the college circuit and in some of the classic old theaters, i.e., the Broadway, the Uptown, the Roxys.Today's audiences have never seen film presentation as we did 20-30 years ago. I know everybody on this sight would love to see some old-fashioned showmanship come back to the cinema. Cinerama was the ultimate example of the old roadshow movie, complete with souvenier programs in the lobby and kitchy overtures.
While retaining the standard auditorium format it produced an image that in many ways surpasses IMAX. I'd sure hate to lose it forever.
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Posted by Patrick S. Chaffins (Member # 348) on 03-16-2000, 12:22 AM:
A friend of mine tried to get tickets on Feb 24th and they were allready sold out!!! 
Word has it that John Harvey is taking his prints to Seattle this spring . . . BTW it would be nice if he ran them thru FilmGuard to clean them up (they're not bad, but let's make them perfect
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Pat