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THE SCREENING ROOM

 

A year-by-year, film-by-film history of 70-millimeter wide gauge exhibition in New York City & Vicinity

 Compiled by Michael Coate and William Kallay

1955

 

 

October 14:

OKLAHOMA!

Todd-AO / Six-Track Stereo

Reserved-Seat Engagement

Magna

“You’re In The Show With Todd-AO”

 

Manhattan: [UA] Rivoli

 

Includes Invitational Screenings on Oct. 10-12 and World Premiere on Oct. 13

 

Beginning in Spring 1956, engagement included the short-subject demonstration film “The Miracle Of Todd-AO”

 

Additional 70mm Engagement

Syosset: [Skouras] Syosset* (Dec. 9, 1956)

 

*Also screened once during the Syosset Theatre’s grand opening event on Nov. 20, 1956

 

[Also see 1962, 1967 & 1983 re-issue entries and 1978 “Broadway Comes To Broadway” entry] 

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