MSC77: Thanx for the response. I definitely saw the film somewhere in ‘downtown’ Boston in 1968 when I was little. However, I guess I don’t remember the name of the theater (because for years I was ‘sure’ it was the Beacon Hill Theater — actually right up until just this last month!)… I do remember the presentation being called Cinerama (which didn’t mean much to me at the time, except that it was supposed to be ‘panoramic’)… The theater had a very curved screen which was behind a curtain, I believe it was a deep red velvet curtain…. It was a sort of scary experience…. I recall the spooky ‘overture’ music playing, and that the theater lights were turned pretty dark for it… Maybe I didn’t quite understand how ‘evil’ HAL was supposed to be, but I was actually sad for HAL when he said he was ‘afraid’ and dying…. Then, some many months after seeing the movie, I had a tonsil surgery, and when I was put under anesthesia, I had a a dream, which turned into a nightmare; I didn’t realize at the time, but it was a ‘modified’ version of the stargate sequence, where I was ‘falling’ down an endless tube lined with these flourescent blue-green spheres, which then turned to red as the speed of my falling increased (this was of course the nightmare part, and I awoke from it lying on a recovery bed with a very sore throat)… It seems that, if the roadshow was the only time back in 1968, when the ‘overture’ played, and if the screen was deeply curved, it must have been the Keith-Cinerama?
I understand that the (Keith) Cinerama theater on Washington St. had shown ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ upon initial ‘road-show’ release. But was that the ONLY theater in Boston to do so? Was it ever shown at that time, in the old Beacon Hill Sack Cinema (before it was altered), in Cinerama (70 mm, 6 track audio), with the overture and intermission?
MSC77: Thanx for the response. I definitely saw the film somewhere in ‘downtown’ Boston in 1968 when I was little. However, I guess I don’t remember the name of the theater (because for years I was ‘sure’ it was the Beacon Hill Theater — actually right up until just this last month!)… I do remember the presentation being called Cinerama (which didn’t mean much to me at the time, except that it was supposed to be ‘panoramic’)… The theater had a very curved screen which was behind a curtain, I believe it was a deep red velvet curtain…. It was a sort of scary experience…. I recall the spooky ‘overture’ music playing, and that the theater lights were turned pretty dark for it… Maybe I didn’t quite understand how ‘evil’ HAL was supposed to be, but I was actually sad for HAL when he said he was ‘afraid’ and dying…. Then, some many months after seeing the movie, I had a tonsil surgery, and when I was put under anesthesia, I had a a dream, which turned into a nightmare; I didn’t realize at the time, but it was a ‘modified’ version of the stargate sequence, where I was ‘falling’ down an endless tube lined with these flourescent blue-green spheres, which then turned to red as the speed of my falling increased (this was of course the nightmare part, and I awoke from it lying on a recovery bed with a very sore throat)… It seems that, if the roadshow was the only time back in 1968, when the ‘overture’ played, and if the screen was deeply curved, it must have been the Keith-Cinerama?
I understand that the (Keith) Cinerama theater on Washington St. had shown ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ upon initial ‘road-show’ release. But was that the ONLY theater in Boston to do so? Was it ever shown at that time, in the old Beacon Hill Sack Cinema (before it was altered), in Cinerama (70 mm, 6 track audio), with the overture and intermission?