UA Cine I & II
Yale Boulevard & Central Expressway,
Dallas,
TX
75206
Yale Boulevard & Central Expressway,
Dallas,
TX
75206
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Saw a lot of movies, here, including Ghostbusters. When The Piano played here, they had a grand piano in the lobby.
By it’s last months, the place had become run down. The Angelika was about to open about a block from it, the art house with the cafe, 7 screens, and Trinity Hall attached to it in Mockingbird Station, so the Cine was allowed to die.
Some photos I took of the Cine I & II back in both 2005 & 2007.. Today, nothing remains of this Theatre.. Enjoy.. Randy A Carlisle – Historical Photographer
Description is all wrong – the UA Cine 150 (name reverting to UA Cine when twinned in the early 1970’s) was NEVER in a shopping mall – it was free-standing until the day it was demolished. The “150” in its original name designated its capability of projecting Dimension 150 prints – only two pictures were ever photographed in this process, which was simply Todd A-O with a new name and a better lens, and these were “The Bible” (1966) and “Patton” (1970). Ironically, both opened their exclusives downtown at the Tower! Oh, well…
Maybe!
Wonder if “NORTH DALLAS FORTY” played there.
<<< On a Friday evening, in the spring of 1975, Steven Spielberg and the executives from Universal choose the UA Cine 150 to have the first sneak preview of JAWS for an audience. >>>
This sneak-preview “test” screening took place on Wednesday, March 26, 1975 and was at the Medallion, not this theater.
<<< The following evening, Universal took the picture for a second sneak to the Lakewood Center Theatre in Lakewood , CA. >>>
The Lakewood screening was on March 28, two nights later.
Theatre demolished, building footprint has been paved and striped for parking. Entire property is now a remote parking lot for SMU.
I also have the grand opening ad from May 1st, 1968 as UA Ciné 150 at View link . They claimed that this was the first 8-channel stereophonic theatre in the world. This theatre was at 5540 Yale accord to the ad.
Pictures of the lobby of this theatre is at http://cinerama.topcities.com/150dallas.htm
The aka UA Cine 150 needs to be added. Like the two UA Cinema 150 houses (I don’t know why UA gave the Dallas location a variant name) in Oak Brook, Illinois, and Santa Clara, California, this theater was designed by San Francisco architect George Raad of George Raad & Associates.
On a Friday evening, in the spring of 1975, Steven Spielberg and the executives from Universal choose the UA Cine 150 to have the first sneak preview of JAWS for an audience. Spielberg was in attendance. The word got out in Dallas before the picture screened and there was pandemonium at the theatre with people trying to be admitted. There were so many people, Universal had to have a second screening later on that same evening. Something that’s rarely done. Needless to say, the audience loved the picture which went on to be a gigantic success. The following evening, Universal took the picture for a second sneak to the Lakewood Center Theatre in Lakewood , CA.
Saw ‘Tora Tora Tora’ there when it was a single screen. In late 1974 saw a revival of ‘2001’, remember being disappointed in comparison to the screening it had at the Capri in 68. Also, first time I saw ‘2001’ where there were a lot of ‘heads’ down front who lit up at a certain point.
In the last couple of years of operation it seemed rather desolate. I think it was torn down a couple of years ago.
This theater opened as the United Artists Cine 150 and was indeed intended to play the Dimension 150 process wide-screen features. It was a single screen with a very high end sound system. Later it was split into 2 theaters. It was a free standing theater located very near the tony suburb of Highland Park.
OK, reserved-seat then.
Hard ticket?
“Hello Dolly”, “Fiddler on the Roof”, “Man of La Mancha” and many others all had their exclusive hard ticket premiers here in the 70s when it was a single screen theater. It opened as the Cine 150—one of the great Dimension 150 theaters in the USA. Weird that it would be so forgotten now. Twinning will do that, I guess…