Radio City Music Hall

The Elliot Hall of Music used to have an annual Christmas Show that was pre-recorded for PBS an it was as massive at the show at RCMH. My only complaint with the shows were instead of letting the home audience see the eleborate scene changes during the show the video technical directors were so busy zooming and moving the camera shots that it made one dizzy. I wish I could have been there to see the beautifully coordinated scenic crews doing their art at its best.The sets were splendidly eleborate and magical, as often as the moving shots would pause for 30 seconds.

No changes this year including the 70MM 3-D.

Oh my goodness is it that time again already? rcd 55b look forward to your report on how the show is getting ready, changes thus year? how about the 70mm 3-D will that stuill be used? Details and pictures please thanks so much

Sixty-seven years ago today, MGM’s eagerly-awaited and NYC-localed “Week-end at the Waldorf” opened its premiere engagment at RCMH, with Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, and Van Johnson topping the cast. The B&W melodrama had similarities to MGM’s earlier blockbuster, “Grand Hotel,” but wasn’t a remake. Leon Leonidoff’s stage spectacular, “Golden Harvest,” was reduced in length due to the film’s runnng time of two hours and ten minutes.

The designer for Radio City Music Hall was a consulting architect for the Purdue (Elliot) Hall of Music. Photo

Was just noticing the July 26th note. I was working at the Hall that morning, and as was my custom I usually went off for lunch break just after the feature started. When I and the rest of the first group got back we knew by the different activity around that something had happened. Emma Heller was the nurse on duty that morning, and she was headed for the exec car (private elevator) at the front of the house and asked what all the extra activity around the front of the house was, as we heard nothing when we were in the Service Staff Quarters on the Grand Lounge Level before as we returned from outside and trying to back upstairs on time. She filled us in. As I recall as I was upstairs that day the third mezz was closed and blocked due to a shortage of staff and the light business.

The Sixth Avenue “el” did add a certain magic to early photos of RCMH: nypl

Those sinks and hand dryers are still there.

I just noticed that “THE BLACK CAULDRON” followed “RETURN TO OZ”.

Seventy-one years ago today, William Wyler’s film of Lillian Hellman’s stage masterwork, “The Little Foxes,” opened its world premiere engagement at RCMH, with Bette Davis in the pivotal role originally played on Broadway by Tallulah Bankhead. The Samuel Goldwyn production was his first for RKO Radio distribution, after a longtime association with United Artists. Leon Leonidoff’s stage revue, “Follow the Fleet,” saluted the U.S. Navy with spectacular scenes set in Hawaii. Ironically, only months later, a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor would plunge America into WW2.

How long did that 70 x 32 foot screen last at the Music Hall?

What are the sizes of some current screens in New York, such as the Ziegfeld, Empire, Lincoln Square?

“Dancing Waters” depicted in this 1953 trade report: boxoffice

It certainly was. To prove how popular Cinerama was in 1963, I saw it in Montclair, a New Jersey suburb and not a big city by any means. Now there are only three 3-strip Cinerama theaters left in the entire world.