I saw this film during it's first run in a theater in NYC near B'way and about 49th St (northern Times Square). This was in the original wide screen projection too! As I recall, there were 3 screens and projectors. Does anyone know which theater this may have been? Here's a great site on movie theaters:
http://cinematreasures.org
Cinerama movies were shown in special theaters with a very wide screen that curved around. I saw it in Los Angeles in a Cinerama Theater.
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There are several websites about the old cinerama theaters (I was lucky to live in Denver where there was a theater built specifically for cinerama). The best for my money, and the one that may be able to answer your question, is cineramaadventure.com
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Thanks for the feedback! (public and private) From what I gather, this film was shown at the Strand which at one time was known as the [Stanley-Warner] Warner Cinerama and RKO Cinerama. See here http://cinematreasures.org/theater/2975/ and here http://www.fromscripttodvd.com/70mm_in_new_york_1966.htm (scroll to the bottom)
shareI would love to see this film in its original format and theater. I suspect the equipment is too obsolete for theaters today.
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I remember seeing both this film and _2001: A Space Odyssey_ in three-screen Cinerama. I think, though, that my memory may be faulty; it seems that, by the time both films were released, "Cinerama" meant "Super Panavision 70," a one-screen process. (It makes sense, since I think it would have been difficult to frame a film for both three-screen Cinerama and "regular" format; I do remember seeing _This is Cinerama_, with its flight sequence over the Grand Canyon, in true three-screen.) See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinerama . Cheers, --Howard
shareIt wasn't three screens but three projectors synched together. You are right though after How the West Was Won Cinerama became Ultra Panavision. The First Move relaesed in that format was "Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
shareGrand Prix along with a number of pictures (It's a Mad...World, 2001: A Space Odyssey among others) were filmed in either one camera, one projector Super or Ultra Panavision, then with the aid of a special lens the already large image was 'blown up' to play on Cinerama screens. Original 3 strip Cinerama had been deemed too expensive and too cumbersome for filming and was discontinued after How the West Was Won. But since specially designed theatres had already been constructed, Cinerama Inc. allowed its name to be used (for a fee of course) as a Cinerama Presentation in order to entice audiences into theatres. Sometimes this worked but often it didn't(Circus World, Custer of the West, Krakatoa: East of Java). Other Cinerama presentations included:
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Hallelujah Trail
Battle of the Bulge
Khartoum
Ice Station Zebra
and (gasp)
Song of Norway (but luckily only in the UK)
Hope this helps.