Here’s a vintage postcard I recently scanned: View link
It’s the Art Deco style remodelation, although Art Deco seams to be a bit too much credit judging from the postcard.
What a shame the building is now sitting vacant. I went to $wap Shop Drive-in in Lake Worth two years ago, not knowing about this gorgeous (though closed) site.
The postcard mentioned above can be seen with a better color rendition and in a larger size on my flickr stream: View link
Know that I scan all my cards at 600dpi and clean them in that size, and that I can email a higher res image for a (personal, non-commercial) repro for on the wall or so.
Almost all lights in the grand auditorium and lobbies of the Tuschinski theater here have been replaced with LEDs. This was not only an economical issue, but also because of health & labor regulations. The lights high up on the ceilings and other hard to reach places should be replaced as least as possible! I haven’t noticed any difference between the old lights and the new ones. So I’d say: go LED!
Last year the interior was redone, the two auditoriums were removed and now it has a total of 3 screens. The Rialto was designed by architect J. van Schaik and built by Gebroeders Glaswinkel.
See many photos of Rialto in my flickrstream: View link
The Forum is now a warehouse or storagedepot for several local companies or shops I believe, but the facade is still in tact, the name can still be read.
There is now a post office on this address, and nothing that is even slightly reminiscant of what could have been a cinema, unlike the former Forum a few buildings down the road.
The IMAX screen, with 600m2 (one of the) the largest in Europe, unfortunately was closed at the end 2005, just before they could’ve made some reasonable profit off of the IMAX DMRed films and U23D and such. I found out as I’m in Brussels now and wanted to see THE DARK NIGHT in it’s partly native IMAX format.. what a shame..
This has been a favorite of many of the local film lovers as well as expats in Munich, as Cinema has been showing films in “Originalfassung”, so undubbed and subtitled, in a very comfy auditorium. They also often do double bills in weekends.
See photos in my flickrstream.
Interior: View link and View link
as well as the exterior: View link and at night: View link
There’s only one or two labs worldwide that can strike the prints (so how will they strike say 100 70mm prints in time?!), hardly anyone currently has the 70/35mm projectors they have, capable of running 70mm and need to put in place anything from new double rollers to larger platters. Then there’s the projectionists haven’t been trained to work with 70mm, as it’s really hard work and not the same as 35mm! So I think it all boils down to money/cost-effectiveness for something that may not really generate that much more box-office cash and is hard to market and a young audience that really doesn’t care much for a format they’ve never heard of or have seen. IMAX is something they have heard. And with the new smaller Christie, Barco and NEC projectors, prices have significantly come down for a DC install (if you have smaller screens you want to digitize). 4K and 3-D are the ‘new’ words in town that have a better marketing factor. And don’t get me wrong, I love 70mm and have visited quite some widescreen festivals.. but it has gone the way of the … (VIstaVision, 3-strip Cinerama, Senssurround, ShowScan, you name it)..
Here’s a photo I took in 2000: View link
Here’s a look at an old postcard from 1963 with the Loew’s (still) playing MUTINY AT THE BOUNTY: View link
Here’s a vintage postcard I recently scanned: View link
It’s the Art Deco style remodelation, although Art Deco seams to be a bit too much credit judging from the postcard.
What a shame the building is now sitting vacant. I went to $wap Shop Drive-in in Lake Worth two years ago, not knowing about this gorgeous (though closed) site.
The postcard mentioned above can be seen with a better color rendition and in a larger size on my flickr stream: View link
Know that I scan all my cards at 600dpi and clean them in that size, and that I can email a higher res image for a (personal, non-commercial) repro for on the wall or so.
Almost all lights in the grand auditorium and lobbies of the Tuschinski theater here have been replaced with LEDs. This was not only an economical issue, but also because of health & labor regulations. The lights high up on the ceilings and other hard to reach places should be replaced as least as possible! I haven’t noticed any difference between the old lights and the new ones. So I’d say: go LED!
Here’s a painted picture of the theatre and the Bismarck Hotel:
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Here’s a look at an odd artist’s rendition of the Palace Theatre and Bismarck hotel on a vintage postcard:
View link
Here’s a look at the Pacific 1-2-3 (former Warner) in ‘99
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And here an old postcard with both the Warner and Iris. View link
And here some postcards from my collection of the Cinerama Dome:
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I thought the first OmniMax theater would have been in Canada? Anyway, the Omniversum in The Hague is our only true IMAX theater left in the Netherlands, not counting the IMAX at the Pathé Arena multiplex which has a tiny screen with a ration of 2:1 and only screens DMRed films.
I was at an IMAX filmset at the Van Gogh museum two years ago where a French crew was shooting an IMAX film. They had also done WIRED TO WIN. Since France has a total of two IMAX screens but one being La Geode, an Omnimax one, they did a mix of very wide angle vistas and some closer-ups, to accomodate the screens/scope of both theaters. Quite interesting.
I learned one has to use grad filters when shooting wide vistas with 40 or 50% of the top being the sky, to avoid lightspill from the back of domed theaters onto the front, which would render the image too bleak.
Last year the interior was redone, the two auditoriums were removed and now it has a total of 3 screens. The Rialto was designed by architect J. van Schaik and built by Gebroeders Glaswinkel.
See many photos of Rialto in my flickrstream:
View link
Finally cleaned up and posted a scan of a 1938 postcard of this very pretty theatre: View link
See photos of Thalia’s colorful exterior in my flickrstream: View link
Just picked up a postcard from 1945 in which the theater can be seen: View link
The architect who worked on it is Jean Finné, and it was built in 1924. Just a couple of buildings down from the Leopold Palace was another cinema (on numbers 3-7), and this was built in 1921, designed by Robert Allard, according to this website: View link which has an inverntory of Brussels' built heritage.
It now houses a Zara women’s appareal store. I think the facade is still gorgeous. Will post some photos (panorama) soon.
The Forum is now a warehouse or storagedepot for several local companies or shops I believe, but the facade is still in tact, the name can still be read.
There is now a post office on this address, and nothing that is even slightly reminiscant of what could have been a cinema, unlike the former Forum a few buildings down the road.
The IMAX screen, with 600m2 (one of the) the largest in Europe, unfortunately was closed at the end 2005, just before they could’ve made some reasonable profit off of the IMAX DMRed films and U23D and such. I found out as I’m in Brussels now and wanted to see THE DARK NIGHT in it’s partly native IMAX format.. what a shame..
A postcard of the Rossia during the Third Moscow International Film Festival can be seen in my Flickrstream: View link
Congratulations to you Howard and your friends in these recent victories for the Boys, and let’s hope the 8th of August brings more good news!
This has been a favorite of many of the local film lovers as well as expats in Munich, as Cinema has been showing films in “Originalfassung”, so undubbed and subtitled, in a very comfy auditorium. They also often do double bills in weekends.
See photos in my flickrstream.
Interior: View link and View link
as well as the exterior: View link and at night: View link
I was wondering the same thing… GWTW and BLADERUNNER are available in JPEG-2000..
You can add them if you like!
Sad to hear this. Maybe you should become the manager!
There’s only one or two labs worldwide that can strike the prints (so how will they strike say 100 70mm prints in time?!), hardly anyone currently has the 70/35mm projectors they have, capable of running 70mm and need to put in place anything from new double rollers to larger platters. Then there’s the projectionists haven’t been trained to work with 70mm, as it’s really hard work and not the same as 35mm! So I think it all boils down to money/cost-effectiveness for something that may not really generate that much more box-office cash and is hard to market and a young audience that really doesn’t care much for a format they’ve never heard of or have seen. IMAX is something they have heard. And with the new smaller Christie, Barco and NEC projectors, prices have significantly come down for a DC install (if you have smaller screens you want to digitize). 4K and 3-D are the ‘new’ words in town that have a better marketing factor. And don’t get me wrong, I love 70mm and have visited quite some widescreen festivals.. but it has gone the way of the … (VIstaVision, 3-strip Cinerama, Senssurround, ShowScan, you name it)..