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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

 


 

1975

 

 

April 24:

“4 Of The Greatest Motion Pictures Ever Made By Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Presented On The World’s Greatest Motion Picture Screen!”

 

GONE WITH THE WIND  (Apr. 24-30)

 

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY  (May 1-7)

 

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO  (May 15-21)

 

Manhattan: [Rockefeller] Radio City Music Hall

 

Included “It’s In Your Stars” stage show — Series also included 35mm engagement of “Singin’ In The Rain” (May 8-14)

 

[Also see 1965, 1967 & 1968 entries]

 

 

 

 

May 22:

THE WIND AND THE LION

Anamorphic Blow-Up / Six-Track Stereo

MGM/United Artists

“Between the wind and the lion is the woman. For her, half the world may go to war.”

 

Manhattan: [Rockefeller] Radio City Music Hall

 

World Premiere Engagement — Included “Prelude ’76” stage show

 

 

 

 

June 25:

ROLLERBALL

Spherical Blow-Up / Six-Track Stereo

United Artists

“It’s More Than Just A Game!”

 

Manhattan: [Walter Reade] Ziegfeld

 

World Premiere Engagement

 

 

 

 

August 22:

THE JOLSON STORY  (Re-Issue)

Spherical Blow-Up / Six-Track Stereo

Columbia

“You ain’t heard nothin’ yet! The music…the magic…For the first time…In full stereophonic sound…Wide screen 70mm color”

 

Manhattan: [Walter Reade] Ziegfeld

 

Includes U.S. Premiere (of 70mm-stereophonic sound version) on Aug. 21

 

Additional 70mm Engagement

Manhattan: [Rockefeller] Radio City Music Hall*  (Sep. 24, 1979)

 

*Shown for five days during the Musical Memory Lane series

 

 

 

 

December 25:

LUCKY LADY

Spherical Blow-Up / Six-Track Stereo

20th Century-Fox

 

Manhattan: [Mann] National

 


 

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