Daniel Village Theatre
2803 Wrightsboro Road,
Augusta,
GA
30901
2803 Wrightsboro Road,
Augusta,
GA
30901
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Cool photo Robin.
thank you again,It is like Christmas for ME.
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Disney’s “THE BEARS AND I” play here. and its a double bill with “THE SHAGGY DOG” both rated G. Oct.25 1974. I would also like to add that my first real love worked behind the Concession here,BEVERLY O. I would later Marry my Box Office girl at GCC. Wrong Girl at GCC.
Jan 7 1982 DANIEL VILLAGE is still playing its CHRISTMAS FLOP “PENNIES FROM HEAVEN” rated R.
April 5 1975 Now showing ROBERT REDFORD in “THE GREAT WALDO PEPPER” rated PG.
From a booking sheet found in the city managers office of the MILLER THEATRE.
NOW SHOWING or COMING SOON.
Jan 1 1973 NOW PLAYING “BROTHER OF THE WIND"
Jan.5 1973 NOW SHOWING "THE MACHANIC” [ saw it there} FEB 25 1973 NOW PLAYING “THE RAGE”
Speaking of “True Grit” the sequel opens at DANIEL VILLAGE “ROOSTER COGBURG opens first run here.
June 12 1979 The DANIEL VILLAGE has been twinned and is playing a pretty bad movie,“BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE” and in the other theatre is “NORMA RAE”.
I wonder what they could have trimmed after the outlaw {Dennis Hopper} gets his fingers cut off and they show that. Yeah, Another CT member is telling me the same thing on the NATIONAL HILLS THEATRE site. I have the TRUE GRIT one sheet and it is rated G, but would it never be released today as a G.
Mike,
“Dracula Has Risen From the Grave” was rated G in 1968 and never re-rated.
“Taste the Blood of Dracula” was rated GP in 1970 and re-rated R in 2004. Possibly that’s a director’s cut or other footage was added. (Note that it skipped right over the PG-13 rating in between.)
“True Grit” was rated M (the current PG) in 1968, then immediately re-rated G after a slight trim.
Anyone interested in checking the correct ratings can do so at:
http://www.mpaa.org/
You know Ed,And maybe you are the only one to explain this,but i was just leaving a post on NATIONAL HILLS on the same subject. How does a film like Christopher Lee’s “Taste the Blood of Dracula” get rated PG 13,when at the time there was no such rating.“Taste” was GP at the time. “Dracula Has Risen From the Grave” was rated G! I have the one sheet. Today,It’s PG-13.
I saw “The Good,The Bad,&The Ugly” rated R the other day on DVD.Heck,there wasn’t a rating system in those days,Does the MPAA re rate these films. Doesn’t make sense.I guess “True Grit” carries John Wayne’s only R rating? It is stupid.
It’s true, Mike, that after the MPAA/CARA ratings system was introduced in November 1968, the only movie Alfred Hitchcock made after that that was rated R when initially released was “Frenzy.”
But for whatever reason, Universal Pictures, which controlled several of Hitchcock’s old Paramount pictures by that point, paid to have the original 1960 “Psycho” rated in 1984, and, to no one’s surprise, it received an R.
Dozens of pre-1968 movies were belatedly rated, including “Gone With the Wind,” “The Outlaw” and the Disney cartoons that were regularly recycled.
Summer of 72 Hitchcock’s FRENZY opens at Daniel Village it would be the only R rated movie he made.It would play on late shows at our ABC THEATRES here.Mainly,because of my selection of films in that era.Opened in late June or early July of 72.
Also the classic that sold out was SNOOPY COME HOME opens here July 9 1972.
Now showing June 6 1965 is MIRAGE. Mister Moses is coming next.
Now Showing June 3 1966 is BLINDFOLD.
NOW SHOWING JULY 23 1972 First run FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. {i guess had it been in 70mm it would have played at NATIONAL HILLS. It sure would have looked better.}
oH, Ed glad to have you back somehow i kept missing your great writing on CT. Ray Hutto wrote a story i had never heard on FOREST HILLS DRIVE in Here.
Henry Thomas was one of the first union Projectionists to run the booth.He would later move to the Performing Arts Center at Augusta College and run that complex. At one time he thought about buying the Thomson theatre in Thomson,Ga. But ill health stopped that dream.
March 31 1972 DANIEL VILLAGE is playing the Disney hit BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS. Prices are 2.00 for adults and no longer 75 cents it is now 1.00 for kids.
Yeah, when i wrote it i remembered National Hills was still a pile of dirt. It is just that if you were able to see the two theatres if you had any kind of epic film and National Hills WAS OPEN you would want it booked there. IT was run in35 mm at Daniel Village.No 70mm there only at NATIONAL HILLS. I have the 70mm storage cases in my basement.
“The Sound Of Music” opened its Augusta roadshow engagement at Daniel Village on September 23, 1965. (I do not have its closing date but know it ran at least three months.) The engagement opened, as others have pointed out, before National Hills was built.
As to whether the Daniel Village run was 35mm or 70mm, well…if Daniel Village was equipped only for 35mm presentation, then the answer is obvious. Note, however, that the roadshow newspaper advertisements for “The Sound Of Music” generally did not cite any references to presentation type other than a vague “Produced in Todd-AO” notation. Theaters running the film in 70mm retained the Todd-AO credit, while theaters running a 35mm print were asked to use ads without the Todd-AO credit.
If the Daniel Village run was 35mm, was it at least in stereo? Initially, 20th Century-Fox required all theaters booking “The Sound Of Music” to have at least stereo sound playback capability. I’m not sure, but wouldn’t be surprised if Fox relaxed that policy as the film got more and more successful and its release broadened into smaller markets.
Hi, Mike, according to the CT entry on National Hills, the theater did not open until November 1966, which is why I never got there. (I left Augusta in May 1966.) “The Sound of Music” already had begun its long run at Daniel Village, which was the newest and most luxurious theater in the Augusta area at that time.
I found the AD! THE SOUND OF MUSIC playing at DANIEL VILLAGE in 35mm not 70mm. 70mm was at NATIONAL HILLS and it should have open there instead of DANIEL VILLAGE. It was being held over. Shows at 2pm and 8pm. Boxoffice opened at 1pm for the matinee and 7pm for the evening show,
1976 sees IN SEARCH OF NOAH’S ARK playing. RatedG.
If you stay in business long enough you might get a movie made in the 1950’s. That is what happened to Daniel Village once it was Twinned it got DARBY O'GILL and THE LITTLE PEOPLE with Sean Connery way before 007.