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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

 


 

1976

 

 

May 16:

THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT, PART II

Various Formats / Six-Track Stereo

MGM/United Artists

“The greatest entertainment since ‘That’s Entertainment!’”

 

Manhattan: [Walter Reade] Ziegfeld

Totowa: [UA] Cinema 46

Woodbury: [UA] Cinema 150

 

 

 

 

June 23:

LOGAN’S RUN

Anamorphic Blow-Up / Six-Track Stereo

MGM/United Artists

“Spectacular 70mm And Stereophonic Sound”

 

Manhattan: [Loews] Astor Plaza

Manhattan: [Loews] Orpheum

Upper Montclair: [UA] Bellevue

 

 

 

 

July 28:

THE RETURN OF A MAN CALLED HORSE

Anamorphic Blow-Up / Six-Track Stereo

United Artists

“Spectacular 70mm And Stereophonic Sound”

 

Manhattan: [Walter Reade] Ziegfeld

Upper Montclair: [UA] Bellevue

Woodbury: [UA] Cinema 150

 

Includes Special Preview Screenings on July 23 (Astor Plaza), July 24 (Orpheum) and July 25 (Bellevue)

 

 

 

 

September 1:

GONE WITH THE WIND  (Re-Issue)

Spherical Blow-Up / Six-Track Stereo

MGM /United Artists

“In the splendor of 70mm. wide screen and full stereophonic sound!”

 

Manhattan: [UA] Rivoli

Upper Montclair: [UA] Bellevue

Woodbury: [UA] Cinema 150

 

[Also see 1967 & 1974 entries and 1970 & 1975 special series entries]

 

 

 

 

September 22:

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY  (Re-Issue)

Super Panavision 70 / Six-Track Stereo

MGM/United Artists

“For a perfect experience take…the ultimate trip”

 

Manhattan: [UA] Rivoli

Upper Montclair: [UA] Bellevue

Woodbury: [UA] Cinema 150

 

[Also see 1968, 1974, 1978 & 2001 entries and 1970 & 1975 special series entries]

 

 

 

 

October 5:

DERSU UZALA

Sovscope 70 / Six-Track Stereo

Mosfilm

 

Manhattan: [Walter Reade] Ziegfeld

 

Screened once in 70mm during the New York Film Festival — Subsequent area engagements in 35mm

 

 

 

 

December 25:

A STAR IS BORN

Spherical Blow-Up

Warner Bros.

“They had everything in a world where everything isn’t always enough.”

 

*Six-Track Dolby Stereo

**Six-Track Stereo

 

Manhattan: [Walter Reade] Ziegfeld*

Syosset: [UA] Syosset**

 

Includes New York Premiere on Dec. 23 (Ziegfeld) 

 


 

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