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![<p>James M. Nederlander Theatre - Previously The Oriential</p>
<h1>September Storm is a 1960 American adventure film directed by Byron Haskin and starring Joanne Dru and Mark Stevens. Filmed in 3-D and DeLuxe Color and presented in CinemaScope</h1>
<p>September Storm is notable as the only U.S. feature film made in 3-D between Revenge of the Creature, which was released in the spring of 1955 and marked the end of the 1950s 3-D movie fad in the U.S., and The Bubble, which premiered in late 1966 and introduced the economical “over-and-under” single-strip format used by most of the 3-D films of the 1970s and 1980s.</p>
<p>Like the feature-length 3-D films of the 1950s when they were originally released, it was projected by the polarized light method and viewed through gray Polaroid filters in viewers which, according to the film’s poster, were “scientifically designed by master craftsmen!” Most theaters, however, presented it “flat”, in 2-D.</p>
<p>Although it is widely believed to have been filmed in Stereovision, Bob Furmanek, who oversaw the 2016 restoration, says this is a myth. It was shot full-frame with the original NaturalVision cameras used on Bwana Devil. The center of the image was then extracted to create a 2.35:1 aspect ratio, in the manner of the then-current Superscope process - Source DVD Party</p>
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![<p>Leicester Square Monseigneur</p>
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![<p>Monseigneur Piccadilly Circus/ABC Piccadilly Circus</p>
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![<h1>Photograph of the Melba Theatre courtesy of Lovita Irby and “Spotlight on North Texas” - Great front of house.</h1>
<p>The Melba Theatre (previously The Hope Theatre from 1921-1922) was located at 1913 Elm Street on Dallas’ impressive Theatre Row and became part of the Interstate Theatre chain in 1939.</p>
<h1>In the 1950s, The Melba was an early adopter of cutting edge theatre presentation, including 3-D motion pictures. On Christmas Day 1952, The Melba was one of three Texas theatres showing the first feature-length color 3-D film, “Bwana Devil.”</h1>
<p>BWANA DEVIL (1952)</p>
<p>In the early 1950s, television was on the rise and theatre attendance was declining. Motion picture studios were looking for new, innovative technologies and gimmicks to bring moviegoers back to the big screen. The enormous screens of Cinerama did bring people to the theatres, but it was costly and few theatres were able to instal the necessary equipment. A more practical solution was a new 3-dimensional presentation invented by the Gunzburg brothers’ Natural Vision Co. The brothers demonstrated the process to independent producer Arch Oboler, who eagerly adopted this technology to turn a rather mediocre story into a fantastic experience.</p>
<h1>The resulting film, Bwana Devil, was the first feature-length 3-D color film and is considered a pioneer in the 3-D film market.</h1>
<p>Bwana starred Robert Stack and Barbara Britton and was based on the book,The Lions of Gulu, a story of big-game hunters tasked with defeating man-eating lions in Africa. The film opened simultaneously in two Los Angeles theatres on Thanksgiving weekend 1952 and was a box office success.</p>
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![<h1>The first 3-D feature ever released by a major American studio - Commenced 24 June 1953</h1>
<p>House of Wax (1953) went into production first, but Columbia rushed “Man in the Dark” - shooting it in a mere 11 days - to get it into theaters just days before “Wax” opened. (Bwana Devil (1952) preceded both of them, but United Artists was not considered a major studio in the early 1950s - REALLY!</p>
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![<h1>Arena is a 1953 Ansco Color 3-D film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Gig Young, Jean Hagen, and Polly Bergen. It was promoted as “the first 3-D Western” of the era.</h1>
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![<h1>The Maze is a 1953 3-D horror film starring Richard Carlson, Veronica Hurst and Hillary Brooke. Commenced Sept 22 1953.</h1>
<p>The Maze was directed by William Cameron Menzies and distributed by Allied Artists Pictures. It was to be the second 3-D film designed and directed by William Cameron Menzies, known for his very “dimensional” style (e.g. many shots focused in layers). It was his final film as production designer and director.</p>
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![<h1>Inferno was one of the best and last movies to be made in 3-D during the boom in the early ‘50s. Certainly its use of space emphasized the dramatic possibilities of 3-D and reveals, as more than one person has observed, that the device had largely been squandered in other films made at the time. Commenced Nov 13, 1953</h1>
<p>Film critic Dennis Schwartz liked the film and wrote,</p>
<p>Inferno loses something when not seen in 3-D as intended when released, nevertheless it remains as a taut survival thriller. It makes good use of 3-D, in fact it does it better than most other such gimmicky films - The desert photography by Lucien Ballard is stunning.</p>
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![<h1>Hoyts Esquire Theatre 238 Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC – “Around the World in 80 Days” 1957.</h1>
<p>Change of policy – 1957 Represented a definite change of policy, with the upgrading of the Esquire in preparation for the screening of Mike Todd’s “Around the World in 80 Days”.</p>
<h1>“Cinestage”, a 35mm process</h1>
<p>“Around the World in 80 Days” screened at the Esquire in “Cinestage”, a 35mm process which produced a brighter & sharper picture than CinemaScope, with a marginally smaller aspect ratio. The result : an anamorphic print with 1.56 squeeze giving a ratio on screen of 2.2 to 1 – The Cinestage format was a reduction from the 65mm 24 fps. negative. In practice it uses the standard 4 track magnetic sound (AP) system, but with split surround. The change wiped out five rows of the front stalls.</p>
<p>Projection equipment at the Esquire utilized Gaumont Kalee 21’s with Kalee Varamorph lenses, sitting in front of Mole Richardson arcs. The sound was Westrex with Perspecta integrators.</p>
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![<p>Hoyts Eclipse was close to the City & located in Port Melbourne, on the corner of Pickles and Crockford Streets. Opened in 1924, it had a Cowper Murphy upgrade in 1938. An early victim of television, it closed in 1959.</p>
<p>Photo - Courtesy of CATHS</p>
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