I was living in beautiful Puerto Rico back in 1966 and I remember advertisements in the movie section of the English Language Newspaper “The San Juan Star” about who was Charmian Carr and that you would be able to see her in Puerto Rico. This of course was to get your intrest up, because as time went on the papers let on that she played Liesl in “The Sound of Music”.
The widescreen, large-format cinematography, 70mm TODD-AO, 6 track stereophonic sound, music filled soundtrack, presentation was shown as a reserved seat “roadshow” engagement at this theater. It opened on March 30, 1966. Usually when it played, it would be for a long time, alas, I do not know how long it played here.
In Latin America Spanish it was called: “La Nonicia Rebelde”, “The Rebellious Novice”.
Not very much information is given about this theater, Did it show other “roadshow” movies? If my information is for the wrong theater, or you have more information on this theater, please email us!
“The hills are alive with the sound of music.” Oscar Hammerstein II 1895-1960
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The widescreen, large-format cinematography,70mm TODD-AO, 6 track sterephonic sound, music filled soundtrack, presentation of “The Sound of Music” was shown as a reseved seat “roadshow” engagemement at this theater. It started on April 7, 1965 and played for 79 WEEKS! That’s over a year and a half!
“The hills are alive with the sound of music.” Oscar Hammerstein II 1895-1960
I was thinking about “The Sound of Music” playing in Downtown Chicago for over two years, and if that was some kind of a record so I did some checking.
It played, reserved seat at the Dominion Theater in London, England for 170 WEEKS (that’s 3 YEARS and 14 WEEKS in one theater!).
If a projectionist worked a 5 day week and only ran 6 shows (it could be as many as 8 depending on which days they work when matinees play) and taking into account vacations the projectionist would see and hear SOM about 380 times!
It played in Sydney, Australia at a combination of the Mayfair and Paris Theaters for a total of 180 WEEKS (that’s 3 YEARS and 24 WEEKS!).
“The hills are alive with the sound of music” Oscar Hammerstine II 1895-1960
Tell us more about “the legendary (and difficult) Oscar Brotman.” I’ve forgotten, what theaters did he have?
Yes I seem to remember “The Sound of Music” being at the Loop. It started out at the Michael Todd as a roadshow in 70mm TODD-AO on March 17, 1965 and ran for 93 WEEKS! That would mean it wouldn’t be able to get to the Loop till the end 1966. So after I typed the preceding I looked at the list of movies that JRS40 listed and both tombrueggemann and myself missed The “Sound of Music” listed at 12/28/1966! So it played another 16 weeks that we know of downtown. That’s a total of 109 weeks it played in a row!
“And now you know—-The Rest of The Story.” Paul Harvy 1918-
A Mighty WurliTzer Theater Pipe Organ, Opus 42, a 2 Manual/7 Rank was shipped to this theater on August 8, 1914. It is not known what happened to the organ, but the theater was demolished in 1940. If you know anything about the organ, please email us!
A Mighty WurliTzer Theater Pipe Organ, Opus 40, a 2 Manual/7 Rank was shipped to this theater on July 10, 1914. It is no know what happened to that organ.
A Griffith-Beach Pipe Organ 3 Manual, with echo. went to this theater in 1923. It is not know what happened to that organ.
Another WurliTzer, Opus 1304, another 2/7 was shipped to this theater on March 27, 1926. It is not know what happened to that organ.
If you know anything about any of these organs, please email us!
“Gee Dad, it was a WurliTzer/Griffith-Beach/WurliTzer!”
Trying to reconstruct what happened 95 years ago can be sorta confusing and it turns out the organ information I gave above was for two different organs mixed into one which is sota what happened, I think, but let me start all over.
WurliTzer, Opus 22, a 2 Manual/7 Rank was shipped to this theater on June 8, 1913. Additions and/or alterations were made on July 15, 1913.
WurliTzer, Opus 745, a 2/3 was shipped to the Forest Theater in this same town on December 4, 1923. It was reposessed and parts went to this theater on June 1, 1927. Those parts (perhaps the entire organ?)then went on to a private owner in Louisville, Kentucky in 1960.
If you know anything else about what happened to these organs, please email us!
A Mighty WurliTzer Theater Pipe Organ, Opus 745, a 2 Manual/3 Rank, was shipped to this theater on December 4, 1923. It was reposessed and parts went to the Norland Theater in this same town on June 1, 1927. Those parts then went to a private owner in Louisville, Kentucky in 1960. If you know anything else about what happened to this organ, please email us!
Why isn’t a WIDESCREEN WEEKEND done here each year as is done in Great Britain? Just think, a whole weekend with, 3-strip CINERAMA and 70mm “CINERAMA”, 3-strip CINEMIRICLE, 3-strip KINOPANORAMA, 70mm TODD-AO etc.! Everyone should bug the heck out of the Gods in charge of the Seattle CINERAMA. To see what we are missing see: View link
“Ladies and Gentlemen, This is CINERAMA!” Lowell Thomas September 30, 1952
Why isn’t a WIDESCREEN WEEKEND done here each year as is done in Great Britain? Just think, a whole weekend with, 3-strip CINERAMA and 70mm “CINERAMA”, 3-strip CINEMIRACLE, 3-strip KINOPANORAMA, 70mm TODD-AO etc.! Everyone should bug the heck out of the Gods in charge of the Dome. To see what we are missing see: View link
“Ladies and Gentlemen, This is CINERAMA!” Lowell Thomas September 30, 1952
Brian Morton and everyone else – live theater sounds great, but it’s a shame for a theater to not be used in between productions. Special movies that wouldn’t be shown at a multiplex could be the answer. There are cinemas around that are fairly successful showing special films in between live productions. These theaters need to be found and then copied.
Does the theater have landmark status? Who owns the building?
“A dark theater is terible thing to waste, any night of the week!”
Actually to keep things as accurate as possible a small edit to my October 31, 2006 post. The additions or alterations to the organ were substantial enough to change the organ to Opus 32.
“I thought I made a mistake once, and then I found out I was wrong!”
WOW! And they have that weekend evey year! What a weekend that must be!
If Great Britain can have a weekend of 3 strip CINERAMA and 70mm films, why can’t the CINERAMA Dome and the Seattle CINERAMA both not manage to do the same thing each year? We should all contact both theaters and ask them that!
“Ladies and Gentlemen, This is CINERAMA!” Lowell Thomas, September 30, 1952
A Mighty WurliTzer Theater Theater Pipe Organ, Opus 7, was shipped to an unknown location in Philadelphia, Pennsylania. It was reposesed and rebuilt as Opus 61 a 2 Manual/6 Rank and shipped to this theater on June 4, 1915. Another Console was added on January 18, 1916. This matches exactly with the above comment of hank.sykes “Two WurliTzer organs were in use…with the master on the first floor and a slave unit on the sixth floors Sky Th.”. It is not known what happened to these organs.
Another WurliTzer, Opus 1922, Style 1903M was shipped to this theater on July 31, 1928. It is know what happened to this organ, sit down for this, (I hope this is an eror) it was junked!
If you know anything about the organs, please email us!
More about that Mighty WurliTzer Theater Pipe Organ, Opus 1908, a 3 Manual/15 Rank shipped to this theater on July 17, 1928. It next went to Babylon New York. The organ then went to a residence in Erie Pennsylvania. Another Wurlitzer Opus 1961, a 3/11 had been shipped to the Wellmont Theater, Montclair New Jersey on September 29, 1928. It also went to the Erie residence. They both arrived in Erie in 1961 an were “OK”. If you know anything about these organs, please email us!
Another Mighty WurliTzer Theater Pipe Organ, Opus 1961, a 3 Manual/11 Rank was shipped to this theater on September 29, 1928. It was sold and shipped to a residence in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1961. At the same time that residence in Erie also received WuliTzer Opus 1908, a 3/15 that had been shipped to the Kenmore Theater, Brooklyn, New York on July 17, 1928. It had then gone to Babylon New York and then to Erie. The 2 organs were “OK” in 1961. If you know any thing about the organs, please email us!
I was living in beautiful Puerto Rico back in 1966 and I remember advertisements in the movie section of the English Language Newspaper “The San Juan Star” about who was Charmian Carr and that you would be able to see her in Puerto Rico. This of course was to get your intrest up, because as time went on the papers let on that she played Liesl in “The Sound of Music”.
The widescreen, large-format cinematography, 70mm TODD-AO, 6 track stereophonic sound, music filled soundtrack, presentation was shown as a reserved seat “roadshow” engagement at this theater. It opened on March 30, 1966. Usually when it played, it would be for a long time, alas, I do not know how long it played here.
In Latin America Spanish it was called: “La Nonicia Rebelde”, “The Rebellious Novice”.
Not very much information is given about this theater, Did it show other “roadshow” movies? If my information is for the wrong theater, or you have more information on this theater, please email us!
“The hills are alive with the sound of music.” Oscar Hammerstein II 1895-1960
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“How the West Was Won” in 3-strip CINERAMA, opened on July 3, 1963 and ran for 13 weeks.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, This is CINERAMA!” Lowell Thomas, September 30, 1952
ALSO KNOW AS, CINERAMA
“How the West Was Won” in 3-sitrip CINERAMA, played from May 4, 1965 for 18 weeks.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, This is CINERAMA!” Lowell Thomas, September 30, 1952
The widescreen, large-format cinematography,70mm TODD-AO, 6 track sterephonic sound, music filled soundtrack, presentation of “The Sound of Music” was shown as a reseved seat “roadshow” engagemement at this theater. It started on April 7, 1965 and played for 79 WEEKS! That’s over a year and a half!
“The hills are alive with the sound of music.” Oscar Hammerstein II 1895-1960
ALSO CALLED, ROSNA CINERAMA
“How the West Was Won” in 3-strip CINERAMA, played for 19 weeks starting June 20, 1963.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, This is CINERAMA!” Lowell Thomas, September 30, 1952
I was thinking about “The Sound of Music” playing in Downtown Chicago for over two years, and if that was some kind of a record so I did some checking.
It played, reserved seat at the Dominion Theater in London, England for 170 WEEKS (that’s 3 YEARS and 14 WEEKS in one theater!).
If a projectionist worked a 5 day week and only ran 6 shows (it could be as many as 8 depending on which days they work when matinees play) and taking into account vacations the projectionist would see and hear SOM about 380 times!
It played in Sydney, Australia at a combination of the Mayfair and Paris Theaters for a total of 180 WEEKS (that’s 3 YEARS and 24 WEEKS!).
“The hills are alive with the sound of music” Oscar Hammerstine II 1895-1960
Tell us more about “the legendary (and difficult) Oscar Brotman.” I’ve forgotten, what theaters did he have?
Yes I seem to remember “The Sound of Music” being at the Loop. It started out at the Michael Todd as a roadshow in 70mm TODD-AO on March 17, 1965 and ran for 93 WEEKS! That would mean it wouldn’t be able to get to the Loop till the end 1966. So after I typed the preceding I looked at the list of movies that JRS40 listed and both tombrueggemann and myself missed The “Sound of Music” listed at 12/28/1966! So it played another 16 weeks that we know of downtown. That’s a total of 109 weeks it played in a row!
“And now you know—-The Rest of The Story.” Paul Harvy 1918-
Did the screen have a curtain? I don’t think so. Seems to me perhaps it “floated”? I sure miss it!
“Nothing endures but change.” Heraclitus ca.535-475BC
“they began in the middle of the first movie!” if that isn’t the most interesting and craziest thing I ever heard of!!
“They showed the old movie theater, and half of it was gone.” Scott Ward
I read somewhere that this theater showed forign films in the 1960’s.
“They showed the old movie theater, and half of it was gone.” Scott Ward
ALSO KNOWN AS BILLY MINSKY BURLESQUE THEATRE
A Mighty WurliTzer Theater Pipe Organ, Opus 42, a 2 Manual/7 Rank was shipped to this theater on August 8, 1914. It is not known what happened to the organ, but the theater was demolished in 1940. If you know anything about the organ, please email us!
“Gee Dad, it "WAS” a WurliTzer!"
A Mighty WurliTzer Theater Pipe Organ, Opus 40, a 2 Manual/7 Rank was shipped to this theater on July 10, 1914. It is no know what happened to that organ.
A Griffith-Beach Pipe Organ 3 Manual, with echo. went to this theater in 1923. It is not know what happened to that organ.
Another WurliTzer, Opus 1304, another 2/7 was shipped to this theater on March 27, 1926. It is not know what happened to that organ.
If you know anything about any of these organs, please email us!
“Gee Dad, it was a WurliTzer/Griffith-Beach/WurliTzer!”
Trying to reconstruct what happened 95 years ago can be sorta confusing and it turns out the organ information I gave above was for two different organs mixed into one which is sota what happened, I think, but let me start all over.
WurliTzer, Opus 22, a 2 Manual/7 Rank was shipped to this theater on June 8, 1913. Additions and/or alterations were made on July 15, 1913.
WurliTzer, Opus 745, a 2/3 was shipped to the Forest Theater in this same town on December 4, 1923. It was reposessed and parts went to this theater on June 1, 1927. Those parts (perhaps the entire organ?)then went on to a private owner in Louisville, Kentucky in 1960.
If you know anything else about what happened to these organs, please email us!
“Gee Dad, it "WAS” a WurliTzer/WurliTzer!"
A Mighty WurliTzer Theater Pipe Organ, Opus 745, a 2 Manual/3 Rank, was shipped to this theater on December 4, 1923. It was reposessed and parts went to the Norland Theater in this same town on June 1, 1927. Those parts then went to a private owner in Louisville, Kentucky in 1960. If you know anything else about what happened to this organ, please email us!
“Gee Dad, it "WAS” a WurilTzer!"
ADDRESS 10200 CULLEN BOULEVARD
ZIP 77051
“They showed the old movie theater, and half of it was gone.” Scott Ward
Why isn’t a WIDESCREEN WEEKEND done here each year as is done in Great Britain? Just think, a whole weekend with, 3-strip CINERAMA and 70mm “CINERAMA”, 3-strip CINEMIRICLE, 3-strip KINOPANORAMA, 70mm TODD-AO etc.! Everyone should bug the heck out of the Gods in charge of the Seattle CINERAMA. To see what we are missing see: View link
“Ladies and Gentlemen, This is CINERAMA!” Lowell Thomas September 30, 1952
Why isn’t a WIDESCREEN WEEKEND done here each year as is done in Great Britain? Just think, a whole weekend with, 3-strip CINERAMA and 70mm “CINERAMA”, 3-strip CINEMIRACLE, 3-strip KINOPANORAMA, 70mm TODD-AO etc.! Everyone should bug the heck out of the Gods in charge of the Dome. To see what we are missing see: View link
“Ladies and Gentlemen, This is CINERAMA!” Lowell Thomas September 30, 1952
That Mighty Wurlitzer Theater Pipe Organ was a 2 Manual/6 Rank.
Another WurliTzer, Opus 1096, another 2/6 was shipped on June 29, 1925.
It is not know what happened to either organ. If you know anything, please email us!
Gee Dad, it “WAS” a WurliTzer/WurliTzer!"
Brian Morton and everyone else – live theater sounds great, but it’s a shame for a theater to not be used in between productions. Special movies that wouldn’t be shown at a multiplex could be the answer. There are cinemas around that are fairly successful showing special films in between live productions. These theaters need to be found and then copied.
Does the theater have landmark status? Who owns the building?
“A dark theater is terible thing to waste, any night of the week!”
Actually to keep things as accurate as possible a small edit to my October 31, 2006 post. The additions or alterations to the organ were substantial enough to change the organ to Opus 32.
“I thought I made a mistake once, and then I found out I was wrong!”
A site with much more information about the WIDESCREEN WEEKEND is:
http://www.im70mm.com/widescreen_weekend/2008/index.htm
WOW! And they have that weekend evey year! What a weekend that must be!
If Great Britain can have a weekend of 3 strip CINERAMA and 70mm films, why can’t the CINERAMA Dome and the Seattle CINERAMA both not manage to do the same thing each year? We should all contact both theaters and ask them that!
“Ladies and Gentlemen, This is CINERAMA!” Lowell Thomas, September 30, 1952
Make sure you look at those flickr pictures!
It looks like it’s in pretty good shape. It just needs a lot of tender loving care. Anyone know of any plans for the theater?
“They showed the old movie theater,and half of it was gone.” Scott Ward
ARCHITECT C.C. & E.A. Weber
A Mighty WurliTzer Theater Theater Pipe Organ, Opus 7, was shipped to an unknown location in Philadelphia, Pennsylania. It was reposesed and rebuilt as Opus 61 a 2 Manual/6 Rank and shipped to this theater on June 4, 1915. Another Console was added on January 18, 1916. This matches exactly with the above comment of hank.sykes “Two WurliTzer organs were in use…with the master on the first floor and a slave unit on the sixth floors Sky Th.”. It is not known what happened to these organs.
Another WurliTzer, Opus 1922, Style 1903M was shipped to this theater on July 31, 1928. It is know what happened to this organ, sit down for this, (I hope this is an eror) it was junked!
If you know anything about the organs, please email us!
Gee Dad, it “WAS” a WurliTzer/WurliTzer!"
More about that Mighty WurliTzer Theater Pipe Organ, Opus 1908, a 3 Manual/15 Rank shipped to this theater on July 17, 1928. It next went to Babylon New York. The organ then went to a residence in Erie Pennsylvania. Another Wurlitzer Opus 1961, a 3/11 had been shipped to the Wellmont Theater, Montclair New Jersey on September 29, 1928. It also went to the Erie residence. They both arrived in Erie in 1961 an were “OK”. If you know anything about these organs, please email us!
“Gee Dad, it "WAS” a WurliTzer/WurliTzer!"
STATUS SHOULD BE CLOSED
Another Mighty WurliTzer Theater Pipe Organ, Opus 1961, a 3 Manual/11 Rank was shipped to this theater on September 29, 1928. It was sold and shipped to a residence in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1961. At the same time that residence in Erie also received WuliTzer Opus 1908, a 3/15 that had been shipped to the Kenmore Theater, Brooklyn, New York on July 17, 1928. It had then gone to Babylon New York and then to Erie. The 2 organs were “OK” in 1961. If you know any thing about the organs, please email us!
“Gee Dad, it "WAS” a WurliTzer/WurliTzer!"