Century 16 Stadium
2875 Elba Street,
Ventura,
CA
93003
2875 Elba Street,
Ventura,
CA
93003
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This used to be an 8 screen stadium theatre, before it was expanded into 16 screens. The orignal auditoriums are round with curved screens on the front wall and the seating is semi-circular. The screens have moveable masking enabling movies in Scope format to be shown, a definite plus. The 8 new theatres that were added are not round, which would have fit look of the original 8. Instead, they added a big building to the side, and put in very small shoe-box sized theatres with small screens that are not able to show ‘scope films. The sound in all 16 theatres is digital, although I have never seen a designation as to what kind in any of the new small box theatres. In the original 8 domes, I do know that there is DTS sound and I would presume they have standard Dolby Digital.
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Robert Walker
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All 16-theatres can show scope films. The newer theatres likely just have top masking so that the width of the screen stays the same. Just because the width stays the same doesn’t mean they can’t show scope films.
This opened on October 3rd, 1986
The grand opening is in this newspaper section (you may have to pan a couple of pages to get to the full-page ad.)
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