Radio City Music Hall
1260 6th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10020
1260 6th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10020
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PLATTERR???? Good grief Have they not yet learned that so much more can go wrong running on one of those contraptions than could possibly happen running reel to reel. Even they want back up they couild still run it reel with a MUTT back up.
One of the best things about digital is it means the end of those platter systems
Sorry, just grouchy ole Vito off on one of his tears again
It’s going to run off a platter, but at least it’s film.
RCDTJ we can all cross our fingers and toes for film.
Heck lets go nuts and show it on 2k reels
Serously Mr Smith we can still run reel to reel.
Here is the ad to the “Knights of the Round Table”
Tinseltoes posted about
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As I said before, there will be a movie premiere on March 5th. The big question was whether it would be film or digital. The word just came in that it will be film (as it should be). There will be NO digital back up. It is a Kevin Smith film. Sorry I couldn’t tell you guys the name earlier. I thought I should wait until it was 100%.
What were the admission charges in those days? I remember that in the 1950s the first show was 90 cents.
Okay Joe.
RCDTJ – you are right 3/5 confirmed yesterday for Q&A
3/5/11: I’m hoping it’s the 50th anniversary of “West Side Story”. And of course there will be a film at Radio City in October: “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” with a live orchestra.
That is not the information I have Old Joe and it is not tentative. It is confirmed.
The original ad to go with Tinseltoes post on the first
RCMH Christmas show
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RCDTJ – it is not a film – never was, it’s a tentative Q&A with a film director .
ok RCDTJ you have our attention spill it, what else do you know?
Come on…you know you want to tell us :)
Film at Radio City???? Unheard of!!!!! There is a rumor going around about a possible film here…..Actually it’s not a rumor. March 5th 2011 is the date. Still debating whether it will be film or digital. Not much of a debate here. More than most likely it will be film and that’s a fact.
Never could figure the title but it’s a nice, soapy flick that TCM has on a couple of times recently.
as an organist who studied arranging with a top student of VirgilFox,
thats a great arrangement, Loveit!!!
As Rocket J. Squirrel would say, “Now here’s something we hope you really like…” See the link below I just stumbled onto. This is a piece of music the truly awesome Tom Bahler & Don Dorsey wrote for The Christmas show in the early-mid eighties, when Bob Jani was making magic. It’s the Twelve Days of Christmas and it’s classic RCMH for it’s time… full use of projection capabilities, a continued obsession with synthesized music, which started around 1980, if I remember correctly in a summer stage show called America.“ Sadly, the actual stage projections aren’t shown here (they were pretty great) but you’ll get the flavor and will imagine the wonderfully precise pandemonium that’s on a stage with every pair of legs that can dance in a frenzy by the end of the number.
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I believe you are correct Hank!!
I mean the stable which is shown on the record album front cover. I think that stable drop and wings were the work of Vincent Minelli when he was the art director at the Hall.
Thanks DJF7 nice pictures, I still love the old stable scenery from the Nativity shot that is shown.
And, for the record, TCM broadcast “Operation Petticoat” this afternoon.
Digging through my parents LP collection, I discovered a RCMH Christmas album from 1972. Took a few pics:
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A 4 ½ year run for “South Pacific” is amazing. Having only seen “South Pacific” on DVD, I may be missing somthing. But despite R&H’s music (which is great),I can’t really say it’s a good film. But I guess folks in the 50s thought it was, at least for 4 ½ years.
I wanted to share this article on projectionists. I found the part about working the porno house rather amusing.
The occupation is disapearing fast which is rather sad.
http://www.slate.com/id/2266654
One of the big ones “On The Town” which played Christmas 1949
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At least the show went on while this predecessor to 9/11 happened.