Radio City Music Hall

Thanks RCDTJ we can always cont on you to keep us up to date on these matters. Explain please new gels and focus on second projector.

Vito. Email already came out that all optional shows except one, were cancelled. They won’t be adding them in December. 70MM 3-D is working great. We got some new gels and we fixed the focus on the second projector.

Tinseltoes,I love your posts and anytime I have a corresponding original newspaper ad I will post it.
Pleae keep em coming

No changes at all from the last 2 years. Tickets sales must be slow. All optional shows were cancelled already. Most of the late night Friday and Saturday shows are out.

Well, technically HE didn’t make his screen debut. Where are you getting your information for these, almost daily updates of RCMH attractions?

Greetings:

I heard some news last night which brought back a personal memory of a specific day I had while I was working my matinee shift at the Executive Enterance. The feature presentation was “Spencers Mountain” a forerunner to the to the television series “The Waltons"
I was told that James MacArthur, who played the role of ‘John Boy” would be coming in to see the show. The time was getting closer for his arrival and in walks Helen Hayes. I suddenly remembered that she was his mother. Well we had an interesting ten to fifteen minutes together chatting waiting for James to arrive. They saw the 3:PM stage show and the 4PM feature. Leaving at the 6PM Feature Break. I was on the First Mezz at the feature break and even that day had a good crowd filing out. We all gave them both a good ovation, started by You Know Who!

was it Joan Blondell?

Tinseltoes. If the movie only lasted three weeks, was the stage show held over for the next picture? Alot of production for just three weeks. And what was the next picture and how soon did it come in? Was the Music Hall dark?

The Radio City presesntation of “White Christmas” was one of the few nationwide to project the feature in true horizontal VistaVision. The picture ran horizontally with each frame being eight perforations, or two frames, wide. Two horizontal VistaVision Century projectors were installed just outside the regular projection booth walls and interlocked to an optical track running on the Hall’s normal 35mm projectors #1 and #4 inside the booth. Because, unlike 70mm projectors, the VistaVision projectors couldn’t run any other format only the major cities got to see “White Christmas with all its resolution. Only two other VistaVision features got a fairly wide horizontal VistaVision release in the U. S., "Strategic Air Command” and “The Far Horizons”, one at the Paramount (VistaVision was Paramount’s proprietary process), and one possibly at the Criterion.

The first show is 3 weeks from now – 11/5

Here is a video of the orchestra’s rehearsals for the Radio City “Two Towers” concert:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6942467n

It was shot that way, RCDTJ. Making it digital looks like you’re watching a high def bluray.

I attended “The Two Towers”. What a joy to finally see a movie again at Radio City! The 300-member orchestra and chorus were superb, and the effect they had on the film was almost overpowering at times. The audience was most appreciative and enthusiastic. I’ll definitely be back next year for “The Return of the King”.