Thanks for this great image. The Warner Cinerama® Hollywood was one of the best Cinerama® cinemas in the USA. The wrap a around curved screen curtains came into the seats on thee sides. Great semi pink/red lights on the curtains. The Pacific 3 now just sits there empty with all the tourists walking by and Pacific Theatres will do nothing with the building. The downstairs is still huge and in good shape. It’s time to put in a big curved curtain screen with 4D and show a special 70mm movie on Hollywood! Light up the marquee and bring in the visiting movie loving crowds! Show them some SHOWMANSHIP that is now lost in Hollywood.
A friend of mine'Richard'new the nice Jewish family that ran The Stone Burlesk Cinema in Detroit. Thanks David for the ad image. No more strip burlesque theatres around Detroit these days. The great time before the internet had the girls on stage all around Detroit also at a few other live stage burlesque cinemas. Strange they had the spelling of the Stone as Burlesk, I guess many of these old live stage strip theatres used this type spelling.
Hope the masking and curtains open more then this 1.85 photo shows for scope wide screen movies? Thanks film for the Image. The curtains if they still work look like they are on a curved track. Seems a little curved in this shot. I wonder If they ever had a full curved screen behind them at Theatre Royal ?
To bad they did not put in a D-150® or Ultra Vision® curved screen when It was a big single theatre. Plitt had these in many of their cinemas. Must have looked so bad when they split the place and put in a small screen way hi up. Thanks Jack for the photos.
Thanks David. I wonder If there two Sandra Sexton’s? The one I know and talk to now lives in LA CA. She danced at the 500 Club in New Orleans in the 1960’s & early 70’s also at Rose’s club in Toledo the Esquire Theatre and many other places. Sandra told me she was living in Cuba in 1943 and a young girl? I will show her this ad from 1943. The lady in this ad looks something like her with dark hair?
Thanks Steve looks like they had some red/yellow bulbs then. Now they just have white lights and they turn off when a movie is run. The whole light needs three or four color bulb circuits. Red/Orange combo when the feature film is not going and a light jade green or blue on low when a movie is playing. New dim Led’s need to be put in someday. Who knows when the old Castro Theatre SF will be back open. Looks like Feb 2021? Maybe they will take this closed time to put in the new electric/pipe organ and sound system along with new waterfall curtains plus deco rugs?
Nice photo of the banner sign. The theatre was across the street from the Wagon Wheel bar on right side. The cinema building is still up in Ben Lomond CA and used now for local plays and musicals, no more movies. Boulder Creek CA next town over in the Santa Cruz mountains also had a movie theatre called the Dolan & Burl Theatre. A quonset type building that is still around today but used as a pizza place. Boulder Creek also had a drive-in Theatre called the Starview. Too bad It’s not around today as there are no indoor theatres open these days in the Santa Cruz area because of C19.
Thanks Stan & David for this classic ad. So strange that 20th Century Fox released this fist run in 70mm Todd-AO roadshow but in this ad there is no mention of CinemaScope® the wide screen format it was released in I think when ‘Can-Can’ played in 35mm scope after the Todd-AO engagements. Just Color By Deluxe. I wonder If even some 4 track 35mm stereo sound prints were made for the wide non roadshow runs.
Thanks DI 54 nice open outdoor cinema with a great size screen. These open or soon to open old drive-ins are a gold mine now that most indoor theatres are closed.
Thanks Grind for the ad. I do remember a old lady did faint at this cinema and they had a ambulance come on a Sat matinee performance. Some say she was a plant for the theatre who knows?
Thanks Ken, this almost looks like It could have been a 70m Todd-AO or Cinerama Theatre with the curved curtains but It has a rather small flat screen in this old classic photo?
Thanks Scott for this article. So many outdoor movie theatres are gone around the SF Bay Area. Many around the USA are being re opened or built new. The property is way to expensive around San Francisco but with all the cinemas closed now for 5 months you may see some outdoor movie lots coming back in areas a bit out of town on farm land?
Thanks strange add the logo CINERAMA® is missing. May have been a 35mm showing? No word even about 70mm or stereo sound?
Thanks for this great image. The Warner Cinerama® Hollywood was one of the best Cinerama® cinemas in the USA. The wrap a around curved screen curtains came into the seats on thee sides. Great semi pink/red lights on the curtains. The Pacific 3 now just sits there empty with all the tourists walking by and Pacific Theatres will do nothing with the building. The downstairs is still huge and in good shape. It’s time to put in a big curved curtain screen with 4D and show a special 70mm movie on Hollywood! Light up the marquee and bring in the visiting movie loving crowds! Show them some SHOWMANSHIP that is now lost in Hollywood.
Thanks again Kino you always find some of the best CINERAMA® curved screens around the world!
Thanks David too bad the Tahoe Drive-In is not still around today!
A friend of mine'Richard'new the nice Jewish family that ran The Stone Burlesk Cinema in Detroit. Thanks David for the ad image. No more strip burlesque theatres around Detroit these days. The great time before the internet had the girls on stage all around Detroit also at a few other live stage burlesque cinemas. Strange they had the spelling of the Stone as Burlesk, I guess many of these old live stage strip theatres used this type spelling.
Hope the masking and curtains open more then this 1.85 photo shows for scope wide screen movies? Thanks film for the Image. The curtains if they still work look like they are on a curved track. Seems a little curved in this shot. I wonder If they ever had a full curved screen behind them at Theatre Royal ?
Thanks David I wonder If they still lite up he side art with black Lights so they glow?
Thanks KEN! It was so nice when they added sides for CinemaScope® on the mostly square 1.33 screens.
Thanks so much David for this great photo of Olivia. I wonder if they showed GWTW in 70mm on their Todd-AO curved screen?
To bad they did not put in a D-150® or Ultra Vision® curved screen when It was a big single theatre. Plitt had these in many of their cinemas. Must have looked so bad when they split the place and put in a small screen way hi up. Thanks Jack for the photos.
I guess they played in 70mm but no word in the printed ad.
Not one mention of 70mm? Did they play It in 35mm?
You can see the the giant Cinerama® screen with curtains in the background.
Those Cinerama projector vent duct exhaust pipes look so bad. You would think they could have hidden them better?
Strange this ad has no mention of Todd-AO?
Thanks David. I wonder If there two Sandra Sexton’s? The one I know and talk to now lives in LA CA. She danced at the 500 Club in New Orleans in the 1960’s & early 70’s also at Rose’s club in Toledo the Esquire Theatre and many other places. Sandra told me she was living in Cuba in 1943 and a young girl? I will show her this ad from 1943. The lady in this ad looks something like her with dark hair?
Thanks Kino, not much of a curve for Todd-AO here.
Thanks Steve looks like they had some red/yellow bulbs then. Now they just have white lights and they turn off when a movie is run. The whole light needs three or four color bulb circuits. Red/Orange combo when the feature film is not going and a light jade green or blue on low when a movie is playing. New dim Led’s need to be put in someday. Who knows when the old Castro Theatre SF will be back open. Looks like Feb 2021? Maybe they will take this closed time to put in the new electric/pipe organ and sound system along with new waterfall curtains plus deco rugs?
Nice photo of the banner sign. The theatre was across the street from the Wagon Wheel bar on right side. The cinema building is still up in Ben Lomond CA and used now for local plays and musicals, no more movies. Boulder Creek CA next town over in the Santa Cruz mountains also had a movie theatre called the Dolan & Burl Theatre. A quonset type building that is still around today but used as a pizza place. Boulder Creek also had a drive-in Theatre called the Starview. Too bad It’s not around today as there are no indoor theatres open these days in the Santa Cruz area because of C19.
Thanks Stan & David for this classic ad. So strange that 20th Century Fox released this fist run in 70mm Todd-AO roadshow but in this ad there is no mention of CinemaScope® the wide screen format it was released in I think when ‘Can-Can’ played in 35mm scope after the Todd-AO engagements. Just Color By Deluxe. I wonder If even some 4 track 35mm stereo sound prints were made for the wide non roadshow runs.
Thanks DI 54 nice open outdoor cinema with a great size screen. These open or soon to open old drive-ins are a gold mine now that most indoor theatres are closed.
Thanks Grind for the ad. I do remember a old lady did faint at this cinema and they had a ambulance come on a Sat matinee performance. Some say she was a plant for the theatre who knows?
Thanks Ken, this almost looks like It could have been a 70m Todd-AO or Cinerama Theatre with the curved curtains but It has a rather small flat screen in this old classic photo?
Thanks Scott for this article. So many outdoor movie theatres are gone around the SF Bay Area. Many around the USA are being re opened or built new. The property is way to expensive around San Francisco but with all the cinemas closed now for 5 months you may see some outdoor movie lots coming back in areas a bit out of town on farm land?
Thanks AP must have been a nice cinema.