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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

1962

 

 

March 2:
Oklahoma! (Re-Issue)
Todd-AO / Six-Track Stereo
Reserved Seat Engagement
“You Have Never Seen ‘Oklahoma!’ Until You See It In Todd-AO”
20th Century Fox

Syosset: [Skouras] Syosset

Also see 1955, 1967 & 1983 entries, and 1978 “Broadway Comes To Broadway” entry



October 11:
Barabbas
Super Technirama 70 / Six-Track Stereo
Reserved Seat Engagement
Columbia

Manhattan: [Walter Reade] DeMille

Includes U.S. Premiere on October 10



November 9:
Mutiny On The Bounty
Ultra Panavision 70 / Six-Track Stereo
Reserved Seat Engagement
MGM

Manhattan: [Loew’s] State

Includes World Premiere on November 8

Expanded release on May 17, 1963:
Upper Montclair: [UA] Bellevue

Expanded release on May 29, 1963:
Syosset: [Skouras] Syosset

Expanded release on June 19, 1963:
Nanuet: [Skouras] Route 59



December 16:
Lawrence Of Arabia
Super Panavision 70 / Six-Track Stereo
Reserved Seat Engagement
Columbia

Manhattan: [B.S. Moss] Criterion

Includes U.S. Premiere on December 15

Expanded release on April 10, 1963:
Asbury Park: [Walter Reade] St. James

Expanded release on June 12, 1963:
Huntington: [Century] Shore

Expanded release on August 2, 1963:
Nanuet: [Skouras] Route 59
Upper Montclair: [UA] Bellevue

Also see 1971, 1989 & 2002 re-issue entries

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