Radio City Music Hall
1260 6th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10020
1260 6th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10020
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A post from REndres indicatd the removal or the traveler curtain a while back. I believe they needed the rig for scenery. They did not use it much, if at all, once the movies stopped. Rob, any comments?
The timing of the countour and travelor curtain was impecably timed to the last frame of the movie and last note of the end title score, which was blended perfectly to the start of the organist.
Ah, showmanship, an important aspect of the biz in my day, all but lost now.
BOB I hope you got to see Home From the Hill at the Music Hall. One of the films I most want to see. The Walter Reade was going to show it during a Minnelli festival(or was it Mitchum?) but then they canceled it. Maybe a good print no longer exists.
Thanx Boxoffice
Gustavelifting—
From the audience’s perspective, the traveler curtain was behind the contour curtain, and at the end of films was synchronized to close as the countour descended.
I don’t recall Radio City as ever having a draw curtain. Did they get rid of it?
Here’s a Program from February 1960:
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Our hearts were broken when Kay Kendall died a few weeks before this film opened at RCMH. I shall never forget thinking, as the great contour curtain descended and the traveler curtain closed on the final frame, that we’d never see her again. Then we went to a bar, drank a lot of beer, and argued about whether a young senator from Massachusetts named “Jack†could ever be nominated for president, as so many pundits were predicting he might be. Shortly afterwards, that young senator tossed his diaper into the ring.
1964 Captain Newman MD with Gregory Peck and Captain Newman
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Hey RichePipes,
Nice to see you here. Please read what I’ve written about Ray Bohr (all good, of course). Hope that you will be able to share more about the Music Hall with us.
Organ-ized
myrtleave, Check back to Feb 8, 2005. there is an informative thread regarding Kiss Me Kate in 3-D at the hall by REndres
i just saw a ad for KISS ME KATE
when it opened at raido city
it open in wide screen only
but when it open at the lows metroplitan
in brooklyn it was in 3 dimension and
wide screen
You think the “Young Man With Humor” Gary Morton is the same guy who married Lucy after she broke up with Desi?
What about the great casting of Capucine? One of the most beautiful women to grace the screen at the Music Hall.
What about the great casting of Capucine? One of the most beautiful women to grace the screen at the Music Hall.
Variety is on line through LexisNexis only back to 1993. Various libraries have it on microfilm or in the original paper editions or in some combination of the two.
Here’s a Program from September, 1960:
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I truly don’t know why I went to see the movie, though the great casting of Genevieve Page, Patricia Morison, Martita Hunt, Lou Jacobi, and Marcel Dalio must have made it worthwhile. I remember joining my cynical college friends in heckling some of the grosser Hollywood lines about nineteenth-century high cultcha. Something tells me that one of us knew someone in the GW University chorus which performed in the stage show. Certainly the photo on the program’s cover could have been of any of us, except that we’d never give up our chinos or turtle necks to wear tuxes or gowns for any reason, not even to appear on RCMH’s great stage if we could.
Wow. Robert R should had some great NY Times movie pages. I especially liked anything in the 40’s-50’s. My favorite era of motion pictures
In addition to the bound volumes of Variety film reviews, the N.Y. Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center should have Variety Magazine complete on microfilm. (Where I live, U.R.I. has it all on microfilm.)
BoxOfficeBill & Co,
Regarding your earlier mention of a 1960s Variety. Are 1950s-1960s Variety’s available on-line or at any library system. j
>> Shane has a big Latin American stage show(makes sense) and its kicked off with Gilbert and Sullivan?!!!
I guess all you can say is …That’s showbiz!
Shane has a big Latin American stage show(makes sense) and its kicked off with Gilbert and Sullivan?!!!
I never saw that ad for “North by Northwest” before, it was always the plane in the air running picture.
Here is an advance ad for “Because Your Mine"
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Here are ads copied from microfilm in 1972, my first year of college. That explains the poor quality – microfilm readers have improved quite a lot since then – but I’m glad I still had them. The first is in two parts, from 1953:
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The next is from 1959:
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Vincent is right – it was a Bergen Record ad. I saw “Hawaii” at the Montauk in Passaic (featured in the ad). I always thought it was a big roadshow hit because it played for almost a year (41 weeks) at the DeMille in Manhattan, and Julie Andrews was tops at the box office – at least until “Star” came along.
Isn’t it strange how you can remember an image you passed on a drive-in screen for almost 40 years? The one that I remember best is Charlton Heston getting sprayed with a firehose in “Planet of the Apes” at the Route 3 Drive-In in Rutherford.
This must be an ad from the Bergen Record. Saw BITP with my family at the 303 Drive in which is featured in the ad(children under 12 free.)Wanted to see Hawaii which was playing at the Nyack I believe (we passed it as Julie was serving tea to Max somewhere in New England.)Saw it eventually at the Pascack in Westwood. This obviously was not a roadshow hit as by the summer of ‘67 it was everywhere.
This must be an ad from the Bergen Record. Saw BITP with my family at the 303 Drive in which is featured in the ad(children under 12 free.)Wanted to see Hawaii which was playing at the Nyack I believe (we passed it as Julie was serving tea to Max somewhere in New England.)Saw it eventually at the Pascack in Westwood. This obviously was not a roadshow hit as by the summer of ‘67 it was everywhere.