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  • <p>the newly restored ceiling of the Egyptian theatre</p>
            
              <p>the black speaker boxes are part of the Dolby Atmos soundsystem</p>
  • <p>Opening Day of New York Premiere Engagement (July 22nd, 1953)</p>
            
              <h1>Second Chance is RKO Radio’s first foray into the world of 3-D film, a prevalent cinema fad in the 1950s,</h1>
            
              <p>Second Chance featured the top RKO stars, including bad guy Jack Palance fresh from his critically well-regarded work on Shane (1953). The picture is also the first Hollywood 3-D feature shot on a foreign location.</p>
            
              <p>Critic Jeff Stafford believes the 3-D format was often unjustly maligned and in the early 1950s, was on the verge of “moving beyond the exploitable ‘in your face’ aspects” into more creative uses of the technology when the fad died. He makes the case that the final scenes of Second Chance were “much more intense in 3-D when the depth of field and spatial relationships create a genuine sense of vertigo.</p>
            
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  • <p>Advertised on October 30th, 1960</p>
  • <p>A 1970 film.</p>
  • <p>A 1953 3-D film.</p>
  • <h1>Opened on March 9, 1961, the 814-seat Cooper Theatre was the first of three Cinerama theatres built by the Cooper Foundation in the early-1960’s.</h1>
            
              <p>Known as the Golden Triangle, the three theatres were located in Denver, Omaha, and Minneapolis. Complete with massive screens and the latest sound technology, all three were designed to exhibit films made in the 3-strip Cinerama process.</p>
            
              <p>Renamed as the Cooper Cameo Theatre on December 25, 1975 when a second 300-seat Cameo Theatre was added to the side of the existing Cooper Theatre. The theatre later became part of the Commonwealth Theatres circuit, who franchised the Cooper name. They also built the Cooper 5, Cooper 6, Cooper 7, and Cooper Twin (none of which were Cinerama theatres), which were constructed to mimick the round, elevated roofs of the existing Cooper theatres.</p>
            
              <p>Visitors came from all over to see the Cooper Theatre and its wonderous screen. But after several years of delighting audiences and packing full houses, the Cooper Theatre began to draw fewer crowds.</p>
            
              <p>After Commonwealth Theatres, the Cooper Theatre was run by United Artists, who continued to operate the theatre until it was sold. Like Cinerama itself, the Cooper Theatre in Denver did not last forever. After years of changing hands, the massive theatre was finally sold to Barnes & Noble, who razed it in 1994 to build a new store.</p>
            
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  • <h1>Opened on March 9, 1961, the 814-seat Cooper Theatre was the first of three Cinerama theatres built by the Cooper Foundation in the early-1960’s.</h1>
            
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              <p>Visitors came from all over to see the Cooper Theatre and its wonderous screen. But after several years of delighting audiences and packing full houses, the Cooper Theatre began to draw fewer crowds.</p>
            
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  • <p>Cineworld Cinema - Leicester Square 5 Leicester Square, London,</p>
            
              <h1>House lights going down</h1>
            
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  • <p>screen 1</p>
  • <p>around 1910/1911<br>under construction</p>
  • <p>around 1911</p>
  • <p>around 1911</p>
  • <p>1939 from Facebook</p>
  • <p>Village Theatre 820 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA</p>
            
              <h1>Magnificent Atmos</h1>
            
              <p>Photo - Courtesy of Village Theatre.</p>
            
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  • <p>The auditorium when newly-built, seen from its back wall</p>
  • <p>James M. Nederlander Theatre 24 W. Randolph Street, Chicago, IL</p>
            
              <p>Author  Kenneth C. Zirkel</p>
            
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  • <p>main auditorium</p>
  • <p>Theresa Cantin, who operated The Concord Theatre from October 18, 1933, until September 1994 when it closed its doors.</p>
  • <p>Photograph showing façade in 1934. The overhead tram lines are still to be seen, however, the rails were removed a short while before the Gaumont Palace opened.
              The two cars parked if front really set the scene.</p>
            
              <p>Ron Knee</p>
  • <p>Photograph taken prior to opening. The Safety Curtain painted by Frank Barnes and similar to that Barnes painted for the Gaumont Palace Doncaster, which opened two weeks earlier on the 3rd September 1934. The splay walls have unusual lighting feature, Compton organ with illuminated console in the raised position, the organ chambers were situated behind the ornamental grilles across the top of the proscenium.</p>
            
              <p>Ron Knee</p>
  • <p>Loew’s State Theatre, Providence, RI in 1929 - Proscenium</p>