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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

1964

 

 

 

March 12:

BECKET

Anamorphic Blow-Up / Six-Track Stereo

Reserved-Seat Engagement

Wallis/Paramount

“Two great stars in the story of two of the most explosive men in history.”

“Presented in 70mm on the Giant Theatre Screen”

 

Manhattan: [Loew’s] State

 

Includes World Premiere on Mar. 11

 

 

 

 

March 27:

THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

Ultra Panavision 70 / Six-Track Stereo

Reserved-Seat Engagement

Bronston/Paramount

“Spectacle. Passions. Savagery.”

 

Manhattan: [Walter Reade-Sterling] DeMille

 

Includes World Premiere on Mar. 26

 

 

 

 

June 26:

CIRCUS WORLD

Super Technirama 70 / Cinerama / Six-Track Stereo

Reserved-Seat Engagement

Bronston/Paramount

“Cinerama Surrounds You With The Greatest Thrill-Packed Story Ever Filmed!”

 

Manhattan: [Loew’s] Cinerama

 

Includes New York Premiere on June 25

 

Additional 70mm Engagement

Montclair: [Beacon] Clairidge Cinerama  (Dec. 14)

 

 

 

 

October 22:

MY FAIR LADY

Super Panavision 70 / Six-Track Stereo

Reserved-Seat Engagement

Warner Bros.

“The Most Loverly Motion Picture Event Of All!”

 

Manhattan: [B.S. Moss] Criterion

 

Includes World Premiere on Oct. 21

 

Expanded Release on Apr. 14, 1965

Asbury Park: [Walter Reade] St. James

 

Expanded Release on Dec. 22, 1965

Plainview: [Century] Plainview

 

Expanded Release on Dec. 29, 1965

Trumbull: [UA] Trumbull

 

Expanded Release on Jan. 25, 1966

Montclair: [Beacon] Clairidge

 

Additional 70mm Engagement

Nanuet: [UA] Route 59  (June 28, 1966)

 

[Also see 1971 & 1994 re-issue entries, 1978 “Broadway Comes To Broadway” entry and 1996 “Warner Bros. Classics” entry]

 

 

 

 

December 15:

MEDITERRANEAN HOLIDAY  (“Flying Clipper: Traumreise Unter Weissen Segeln”)

MCS Superpanorama 70 / Cinerama / Six-Track Stereo

Walter Reade-Sterling

“The Thrilling Entertainment That Places You Right In The Middle Of The Most Fabulous Adventure You Ever Lived!”

 

Manhattan: [Stanley-Warner] Warner Cinerama

 

New York Area Premiere Engagement of 70mm version — Previously screened in 35mm multi-panel “Wonderama”

 

Additional 70mm Engagements

Montclair: [Beacon] Clairidge Cinerama  (Apr. 5, 1965)

Syosset: [Skouras] Syosset*  (Apr. 14, 1965)

Nanuet: [Skouras] Route 59*  (June 23, 1965)

Montclair: [Beacon] Clairidge Cinerama  (Aug. 30, 1967)

 

*Promoted in “CineVision 70mm Giant Screen [and] Stereophonic Sound”

 

 

 

 

December 24:

CHEYENNE AUTUMN

Super Panavision 70 / Six-Track Stereo

Reserved-Seat Engagement

Warner Bros.

“Now the mightiest true adventure of all!  Filmed by 6-time Academy Award winner John Ford…with a massive all-star cast!”

 

Manhattan: [Loew’s] Capitol

 

Includes New York Premiere on Dec. 23

 

Expanded Release on Mar. 10, 1965

Syosset: [Skouras] Syosset

Upper Montclair: [Fabian] Bellevue

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