Wow, reel-to-reel changeovers at the Ziegfeld. What is the deal with the 70mm projectors in that booth? Do they have two working units available so that they might obtain good prints for future 70mm classic screenings?
I assume #1 is the left side of the old orchestra and #5 is the backstage theater which would make #6 the tiny storefront conversion that is off the front of the lobby. What does “KS” stand for?
Also… Were seats lost along the left side of theater 1 to accommodate the passageway to get to theater 5?
Just to note a couple of things… In the first couple of shots, you’ll notice that the “Clearview Cinemas” signage that was at the apex of the marquee canopy has gone missing and the old “United Artists” logo that had been under it can be made out. Also, I grabbed some shots of the theatre’s old cieling. Looks like the basic streamline deco design is intact, but it has been completely painted in a flat coat of coal-black paint – completely obscuring any design from the naked eye.
Well, I attended the 11am showing today of “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World” at the Manhasset with my two kids. To my delight, the movie played in the former balcony theater and not one of the downstairs theaters as was the case when saps saw “Singing in the Rain” with his daughter. To my great disappointment, however, when we got upstairs to our seats, we found a blue DVD player standby image being projected on the screen – and I knew we were in for what amounts to giant-projection-TV. I wanted to leave right then and there and ask for a refund of my tickets and the unopened water and candy bars we just purchased, but the kids implored me to stay – my daughter in particular keen to see the image of the movie (whatever the source) projected on a theatre-sized screen. I caved-in and we remained for the show – even though I had sworn to myself that I would not pay for a DVD presentation.
I should probably back up to the night before the showing when I called the theatre to confirm the showing. Someone advised me that Clearview had elimated the Saturday and Sunday screenings from the Hollywood Classics schedule and that there would be no further showing of this title. I was miffed and asked if the presentation had been film or video projection – and was told that it had been FILM! This made me even angrier, so I went to Clearview’s site and submitted a complaint. Our old buddy (from the Ziegfeld page) Craig O'Connor responded (as did another Clearview rep) to let me know that there must have been a misunderstanding and that the show was to go on precisely as scheduled (and still advertised on the Clearview site, by the way).
I am greatful for the efforts Craig and the rest of the Clearview staff made in getting back to me at a pretty late hour on Friday to clear this whole thing up, but I was only in for further disappointment at the prospect of what was basically a glorified DVD viewing. After all, I already own the damned DVD of “IAMMMMW!” I took some solace when I won the pre-screening raffle for a free Clearview movie pass (a definite rigged affair as I had purchased three of the five tickets sold for this morning’s screening)!
In any event, the charms of the movie and shared experience with my kids worked their magic and we find ourselves immersed in the film. Well, at least the kids were. The too-dark and grainy (and somewhat distorted) image from the DVD projector and the non-surround sound would frequently jolt me from my complete enjoyment of the movie – but I put those feelings aside for the sake of the kids and we had ourselves a good time despite it all.
And as always, Clearview staff is very freindly and the theatre immaculate. I was chatting with one of the workers there and he indicated that 95% of the classics are DVD presentations. I guess I might have known that. Sure makes availability of titles a whole lot wider. The staffer also told me that at the beginning of the series they were getting films – but due to the length of some of the older classics they had been screening, there’d be 12 or more reels to be assembled for the platter (opposed to the usual 8 reels for the average modern movie they play at the Manhasset). So the switch to DVD was also a function of too much damn work to assemble and breakdown reels for a print that would only be screened a few times before being shipped back.
Anyway, with all due respect to Craig and the folks at Clearview and the Manhasset – I won’t be going back for any other DVD presentations. I’ll take my classics strictly on film from here on out. At least until classic series begin to utilize true digital cinema projection – which will probably have to wait until data storage and download fees come down significantly.
Oh… and if you’re out there, Vodhin, I can’t say that I saw your ghost (which I had totally forgotten about until I came back to this page to post these comments) but there were a number of times today that I found myself looking back over my shoulder because I swore there was someone standing or moving around in the back row (which there wasn’t).
Thanks, Al. I think 1974 coincides pretty well with my memories. I’d have just turned 9 years of age and had been back in NYC by then (in ‘72 I lived in Miami and my viewing of the movie was definitely with extended family so must have been in NY).
That’s what I figured, Lost. I was just curious since an organ installation would have likely dated the theater at least 4 or 5 years earlier. I find that theaters built in the ‘30’s are typically more streamlined and deco-inspired than the Laurelton appears to be.
BTW, that’s the Capri Theatre’s marquee that can be glimpsed in the foreground of the image above. The Venus Theater is just barely visible behind the Eros. All three were opened between 1968-1969 by Chelly Wilson – who also ran the Cameo and Adonis Theatres on the other side of Eighth Avenue.
Here’s a blurry image of the old Loew’s Astor Plaza marquee signage at night – from before the September 1996 renovations. This image is actually a screenshot from video shot by CT member Hollywood90038 on New Year’s Eve 1992.
Compare the bold red signage on the side panel depicted above (facing Times Square) to the subdued white lettering along the top edge of that same facing on the marquee in this 1999 view. In the 1999 version, the theatre’s name was most prominently displayed on the marquee’s front panel.
There was also a vertical blade high up on the 44th Street side of the building just off the corner of B'way that simply stated “Loews” in black letters against a white background. I can’t recall if that lasted to the very end.
Here is an image of the Doll marquee at night. The image is a screenshot of some vintage circa 1972 stock Times Square footage incorporated into the excellent documentary “Inside Deep Throat.” You can glimpse a portion of the Spanish-language titles on the Cine 1 & 2 marquee just behind the Doll’s on the right side of the image. In the panning shot that comes to rest on the Doll marquee in the footage, the camera passes the darkened DeMille marquee on which one can make out the words “Closed for renovations” – no doubt the triplex conversion that would result in the theater’s re-opening as the Embassy 2,3,4.
The build date for this theatre is listed as 1932 on oasisnyc.org (a site maintained by CUNY Center for Urban Research with data drawn from various agencies and City departments), but those are usually just estimates. The only C/O I can find for this building was a temp issued in 1978 when the theatre was converted to a church. The architecture – at least in my mind – would seem to date the theater at least a few years earlier. Unless, the designers were simply not enthusiasts of the art deco movement. The interior looks more like a restrained Greek revival perhaps? There are exposed ceiling beams with decorative molding and carving in the lobby/foyer space. It is now painted a thick coat of white – I can’t recall how these were painted when I attended. The auditorium walls are now mostly stucco with a drop ceiling installed after the original plaster started to fall. Luckily, the forward walls around the proscenium are original (albeit thickly painted in white with gold trim) and notable for four fluted Corinthian columns and decorative medalions.
Lost Memory… Would you happen to know if and when a theatre organ was ever installed here? There are decorative arches between the columns on either side of the proscenium that might have once housed organ grills – but I’m not entirely convinced of that.
Speaking of “Road-ology,” my grade-school teacher (no, not the Hotel Bristol guy) used to tell us that a drunken Indian (meaning Native American) was to blame for the crooked path that Francis Lewis Blvd took in winding it’s way from Whitestone all the way down to Rosedale! If you’re familiar with that thoroughfare, Franny Lew takes a number of confusing twists and turns (including at least two 90 degree turns – even where nothing obstructs the continuation of the roadway). It was thus that my house in Laurelton was just one block over from the intersection of Francis Lewis Blvd and Francis Lewis Blvd!
I’ve also posted a ton of photos there that I took of the Laurelton Theatre as it currently exists (it is a church) – or at least as it existed in February of 2006.
Hey Peter… I think that’s a tale best left to the page for my own personal little nabe, Interboro’s Laurelton Theatre. As Lost Memory can tell you, I had been holding a conversation with myself that lasted a couple of years over on that page and could use the company! Actually, I’ve probably posted most of what there is to say in the comments that are already on that page.
I’m not sure that Wikipedia is accurate, Bill. In 1967 I’d have been 2 years old – perhaps going on 3 depending on the time of year. I definitely remember watching this movie with family members around and I was maybe around 7 or 8 years old. Perhaps there was only the one network showing and I’m recalling a subsequent showing on a local channel? In any event, it was certainly closer to 1974 then 1967 for me – and it was definitely on broadcast television.
Ugh. Merrick Blvd. My error, Peter. It becomes Merrick Road once it crosses the border into Nassau County (which was only a few blocks to the east of my neighborhood). Merrick Avenue exists, but further out east in the Nassau town of Merrick.
Just because I’m a pathological completist, I found myself compelled to bring my camera along to snap some shots of the former Cross Island Cinemas when I knew I’d be in the vicinity a couple of weeks ago. As has already been discussed, nothing much of interest here – just a corner space in a shopping center that has since been gutted and re-fitted for drug store use:
This photo is of the Eckerd Pharmacy that now occupies the space. I believe the main portion of the drug store occupies the space to the left of where the theater entrance and lobby were. This view shows the right-most end of the Eckerd which angles in a bit and where I believe the original entrance was located. You can see the side-wall of the theater going back along that alley on the right. A set of stairs leads down that alley to street level behind and below the theater where exit doors were located for each of the twin auditoriums. This is an image of the back of the theater at the bottom of that alley with the exit doors visible. Here is an alternate view of the back wall.
Seems to me that the fire exits at the rear of the each auditorium must have lead to a set of stairs, depositing patrons at the bottom of the hill on 14th Road behind the shopping center. I assume all of this only because I never attended a movie here, so I really don’t know for sure.
I don’t want to wander too far off topic here, but I can tell you that my teacher’s problems (at least as I understood it at the time) had to do with a drinking and gambling problem as well as a recent and nasty divorce (I imagine the first two lead to the last one).
Saps… very creative writing there – and most evocative of precisely the way I imagined the inside of the Bristol to be!
Pete… in this case SRO = Single Room Occupancy. It looked to me to date back to the 1920’s. Limestone and brick, if I recall. I have to drive around the area one of these days and see if the place survived. If so, it’s probably been gutted for condominiums!
Finally, for the record, downtown Jamaica really wasn’t my neighborhood. I lived in Laurelton, which is several miles (and a couple of neighborhoods) to the southeast down Merrick Ave.
June 1982. I lived in Laurelton and took the Q5 bus along Merrick Ave to Hillside Ave for 6 years ( including 3 yrs on my way to Ryan Junior High in Fresh Meadows via transfer to the Utopia Pkwy Q17A bus) from 1976 until 1982. I passed the opposing marquees of the RKO Alden and Loew’s Valencia Theatres just about every weekday during the school year. Saw the Valencia marquee changeover from movie theater to church. Observed the elevated J train tracks come down and recede into the distance to the west as it was dismantled from its terminus at Merrick Ave (I can recall the lower portions of the supporting stanchions remained along the curb of Jamaica Ave for several years before finally being ripped out). Passed by the Long Island Press sign (which remained in place on the facade of their former headquarters for years after the paper shut down). Watched as the Alden went from single screen to twin and then quartet.
As bustling a shopping district as Jamaica Avenue always was, that period was certainly of darker times for the area. I remember not to far from Jamaica Avenue there was an old pre-war SRO apartment building known as the Bristol Hotel. I remember driving by several times and the corner where it was located (somewhere along 89th Avenue, I believe) was busy with drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes and cars slowing down for the solicitation of one illicit service or another. Believe it or not, an English teacher that I had while at Jamaica High was taking up residence at the Bristol around this time! He was a troubled man with a littany of personal problems – and looking back, it’s amazing he was able to hold on to his job as a teacher of impressionable young teens! Oh the wonders of tenure – the Union is very strong in NYC!
The Gertz was to the west on Jamaica at New York Blvd, wasn’t it? That street is now known as Guy R. Brewer Blvd. Mays was another department store I remember in the area, further to the east on Jamaica Ave around 170th Street. Mays lasted at least into the early 1980’s when I graduated from Jamaica High School.
LI Oddities… You can easily sign up for a free photo-hosting site on the internet such as photobucket.com or webshots.com. Once you’ve uploaded your photos there, you can link to them here with a simple cut and paste into your comments. I’ve posted scores of images on CT using that method.
If you consider yourself computer-challenged, I’d be very happy to host your photos on my photobucket account and post them here for you… But it really is a very simple process to do yourself. You can click on my email address from my profile page if you’d like to contact me.
That would probably be an expensive proposition, BobT. I believe special sub-woofers and amplifiers would have to be installed to recreate the Sensurround experience. And with only 4 titles to choose from (and who knows if decent prints exist for any of them), I don’t see it happening. Megasound from Warner Brothers fared a bit better artistically, with “Outland” and “Altered States” – I wonder if the two systems are compatible?
Wow, reel-to-reel changeovers at the Ziegfeld. What is the deal with the 70mm projectors in that booth? Do they have two working units available so that they might obtain good prints for future 70mm classic screenings?
I assume #1 is the left side of the old orchestra and #5 is the backstage theater which would make #6 the tiny storefront conversion that is off the front of the lobby. What does “KS” stand for?
Also… Were seats lost along the left side of theater 1 to accommodate the passageway to get to theater 5?
I think an AKA is in order here for “Manhasset Theatre,” since surely this was not called “Cinemas” when it was a single screen.
Forgot to mention that I had my camera on me and snapped some more shots of the Manhasset:
Start here with this exterior shot and click “next” until you hit the evening shots I took last November. There are about 19 shots.
Just to note a couple of things… In the first couple of shots, you’ll notice that the “Clearview Cinemas” signage that was at the apex of the marquee canopy has gone missing and the old “United Artists” logo that had been under it can be made out. Also, I grabbed some shots of the theatre’s old cieling. Looks like the basic streamline deco design is intact, but it has been completely painted in a flat coat of coal-black paint – completely obscuring any design from the naked eye.
Well, I attended the 11am showing today of “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World” at the Manhasset with my two kids. To my delight, the movie played in the former balcony theater and not one of the downstairs theaters as was the case when saps saw “Singing in the Rain” with his daughter. To my great disappointment, however, when we got upstairs to our seats, we found a blue DVD player standby image being projected on the screen – and I knew we were in for what amounts to giant-projection-TV. I wanted to leave right then and there and ask for a refund of my tickets and the unopened water and candy bars we just purchased, but the kids implored me to stay – my daughter in particular keen to see the image of the movie (whatever the source) projected on a theatre-sized screen. I caved-in and we remained for the show – even though I had sworn to myself that I would not pay for a DVD presentation.
I should probably back up to the night before the showing when I called the theatre to confirm the showing. Someone advised me that Clearview had elimated the Saturday and Sunday screenings from the Hollywood Classics schedule and that there would be no further showing of this title. I was miffed and asked if the presentation had been film or video projection – and was told that it had been FILM! This made me even angrier, so I went to Clearview’s site and submitted a complaint. Our old buddy (from the Ziegfeld page) Craig O'Connor responded (as did another Clearview rep) to let me know that there must have been a misunderstanding and that the show was to go on precisely as scheduled (and still advertised on the Clearview site, by the way).
I am greatful for the efforts Craig and the rest of the Clearview staff made in getting back to me at a pretty late hour on Friday to clear this whole thing up, but I was only in for further disappointment at the prospect of what was basically a glorified DVD viewing. After all, I already own the damned DVD of “IAMMMMW!” I took some solace when I won the pre-screening raffle for a free Clearview movie pass (a definite rigged affair as I had purchased three of the five tickets sold for this morning’s screening)!
In any event, the charms of the movie and shared experience with my kids worked their magic and we find ourselves immersed in the film. Well, at least the kids were. The too-dark and grainy (and somewhat distorted) image from the DVD projector and the non-surround sound would frequently jolt me from my complete enjoyment of the movie – but I put those feelings aside for the sake of the kids and we had ourselves a good time despite it all.
And as always, Clearview staff is very freindly and the theatre immaculate. I was chatting with one of the workers there and he indicated that 95% of the classics are DVD presentations. I guess I might have known that. Sure makes availability of titles a whole lot wider. The staffer also told me that at the beginning of the series they were getting films – but due to the length of some of the older classics they had been screening, there’d be 12 or more reels to be assembled for the platter (opposed to the usual 8 reels for the average modern movie they play at the Manhasset). So the switch to DVD was also a function of too much damn work to assemble and breakdown reels for a print that would only be screened a few times before being shipped back.
Anyway, with all due respect to Craig and the folks at Clearview and the Manhasset – I won’t be going back for any other DVD presentations. I’ll take my classics strictly on film from here on out. At least until classic series begin to utilize true digital cinema projection – which will probably have to wait until data storage and download fees come down significantly.
Oh… and if you’re out there, Vodhin, I can’t say that I saw your ghost (which I had totally forgotten about until I came back to this page to post these comments) but there were a number of times today that I found myself looking back over my shoulder because I swore there was someone standing or moving around in the back row (which there wasn’t).
Thanks, Al. I think 1974 coincides pretty well with my memories. I’d have just turned 9 years of age and had been back in NYC by then (in ‘72 I lived in Miami and my viewing of the movie was definitely with extended family so must have been in NY).
That’s what I figured, Lost. I was just curious since an organ installation would have likely dated the theater at least 4 or 5 years earlier. I find that theaters built in the ‘30’s are typically more streamlined and deco-inspired than the Laurelton appears to be.
BTW, that’s the Capri Theatre’s marquee that can be glimpsed in the foreground of the image above. The Venus Theater is just barely visible behind the Eros. All three were opened between 1968-1969 by Chelly Wilson – who also ran the Cameo and Adonis Theatres on the other side of Eighth Avenue.
Here’s that same 1991 screengrab from Hollywood90038’s video footage – now that his link no longer works. Thanks for the permission, H.
Here’s a blurry image of the old Loew’s Astor Plaza marquee signage at night – from before the September 1996 renovations. This image is actually a screenshot from video shot by CT member Hollywood90038 on New Year’s Eve 1992.
Compare the bold red signage on the side panel depicted above (facing Times Square) to the subdued white lettering along the top edge of that same facing on the marquee in this 1999 view. In the 1999 version, the theatre’s name was most prominently displayed on the marquee’s front panel.
There was also a vertical blade high up on the 44th Street side of the building just off the corner of B'way that simply stated “Loews” in black letters against a white background. I can’t recall if that lasted to the very end.
Here is an image of the Doll marquee at night. The image is a screenshot of some vintage circa 1972 stock Times Square footage incorporated into the excellent documentary “Inside Deep Throat.” You can glimpse a portion of the Spanish-language titles on the Cine 1 & 2 marquee just behind the Doll’s on the right side of the image. In the panning shot that comes to rest on the Doll marquee in the footage, the camera passes the darkened DeMille marquee on which one can make out the words “Closed for renovations” – no doubt the triplex conversion that would result in the theater’s re-opening as the Embassy 2,3,4.
The build date for this theatre is listed as 1932 on oasisnyc.org (a site maintained by CUNY Center for Urban Research with data drawn from various agencies and City departments), but those are usually just estimates. The only C/O I can find for this building was a temp issued in 1978 when the theatre was converted to a church. The architecture – at least in my mind – would seem to date the theater at least a few years earlier. Unless, the designers were simply not enthusiasts of the art deco movement. The interior looks more like a restrained Greek revival perhaps? There are exposed ceiling beams with decorative molding and carving in the lobby/foyer space. It is now painted a thick coat of white – I can’t recall how these were painted when I attended. The auditorium walls are now mostly stucco with a drop ceiling installed after the original plaster started to fall. Luckily, the forward walls around the proscenium are original (albeit thickly painted in white with gold trim) and notable for four fluted Corinthian columns and decorative medalions.
Lost Memory… Would you happen to know if and when a theatre organ was ever installed here? There are decorative arches between the columns on either side of the proscenium that might have once housed organ grills – but I’m not entirely convinced of that.
Speaking of “Road-ology,” my grade-school teacher (no, not the Hotel Bristol guy) used to tell us that a drunken Indian (meaning Native American) was to blame for the crooked path that Francis Lewis Blvd took in winding it’s way from Whitestone all the way down to Rosedale! If you’re familiar with that thoroughfare, Franny Lew takes a number of confusing twists and turns (including at least two 90 degree turns – even where nothing obstructs the continuation of the roadway). It was thus that my house in Laurelton was just one block over from the intersection of Francis Lewis Blvd and Francis Lewis Blvd!
I’ve also posted a ton of photos there that I took of the Laurelton Theatre as it currently exists (it is a church) – or at least as it existed in February of 2006.
Hey Peter… I think that’s a tale best left to the page for my own personal little nabe, Interboro’s Laurelton Theatre. As Lost Memory can tell you, I had been holding a conversation with myself that lasted a couple of years over on that page and could use the company! Actually, I’ve probably posted most of what there is to say in the comments that are already on that page.
I’m not sure that Wikipedia is accurate, Bill. In 1967 I’d have been 2 years old – perhaps going on 3 depending on the time of year. I definitely remember watching this movie with family members around and I was maybe around 7 or 8 years old. Perhaps there was only the one network showing and I’m recalling a subsequent showing on a local channel? In any event, it was certainly closer to 1974 then 1967 for me – and it was definitely on broadcast television.
Saps… hounding me from my Loew’s Valencia stories! Ha ha.
Ugh. Merrick Blvd. My error, Peter. It becomes Merrick Road once it crosses the border into Nassau County (which was only a few blocks to the east of my neighborhood). Merrick Avenue exists, but further out east in the Nassau town of Merrick.
Just because I’m a pathological completist, I found myself compelled to bring my camera along to snap some shots of the former Cross Island Cinemas when I knew I’d be in the vicinity a couple of weeks ago. As has already been discussed, nothing much of interest here – just a corner space in a shopping center that has since been gutted and re-fitted for drug store use:
This photo is of the Eckerd Pharmacy that now occupies the space. I believe the main portion of the drug store occupies the space to the left of where the theater entrance and lobby were. This view shows the right-most end of the Eckerd which angles in a bit and where I believe the original entrance was located. You can see the side-wall of the theater going back along that alley on the right. A set of stairs leads down that alley to street level behind and below the theater where exit doors were located for each of the twin auditoriums. This is an image of the back of the theater at the bottom of that alley with the exit doors visible. Here is an alternate view of the back wall.
Seems to me that the fire exits at the rear of the each auditorium must have lead to a set of stairs, depositing patrons at the bottom of the hill on 14th Road behind the shopping center. I assume all of this only because I never attended a movie here, so I really don’t know for sure.
I don’t want to wander too far off topic here, but I can tell you that my teacher’s problems (at least as I understood it at the time) had to do with a drinking and gambling problem as well as a recent and nasty divorce (I imagine the first two lead to the last one).
Saps… very creative writing there – and most evocative of precisely the way I imagined the inside of the Bristol to be!
Pete… in this case SRO = Single Room Occupancy. It looked to me to date back to the 1920’s. Limestone and brick, if I recall. I have to drive around the area one of these days and see if the place survived. If so, it’s probably been gutted for condominiums!
Finally, for the record, downtown Jamaica really wasn’t my neighborhood. I lived in Laurelton, which is several miles (and a couple of neighborhoods) to the southeast down Merrick Ave.
June 1982. I lived in Laurelton and took the Q5 bus along Merrick Ave to Hillside Ave for 6 years ( including 3 yrs on my way to Ryan Junior High in Fresh Meadows via transfer to the Utopia Pkwy Q17A bus) from 1976 until 1982. I passed the opposing marquees of the RKO Alden and Loew’s Valencia Theatres just about every weekday during the school year. Saw the Valencia marquee changeover from movie theater to church. Observed the elevated J train tracks come down and recede into the distance to the west as it was dismantled from its terminus at Merrick Ave (I can recall the lower portions of the supporting stanchions remained along the curb of Jamaica Ave for several years before finally being ripped out). Passed by the Long Island Press sign (which remained in place on the facade of their former headquarters for years after the paper shut down). Watched as the Alden went from single screen to twin and then quartet.
As bustling a shopping district as Jamaica Avenue always was, that period was certainly of darker times for the area. I remember not to far from Jamaica Avenue there was an old pre-war SRO apartment building known as the Bristol Hotel. I remember driving by several times and the corner where it was located (somewhere along 89th Avenue, I believe) was busy with drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes and cars slowing down for the solicitation of one illicit service or another. Believe it or not, an English teacher that I had while at Jamaica High was taking up residence at the Bristol around this time! He was a troubled man with a littany of personal problems – and looking back, it’s amazing he was able to hold on to his job as a teacher of impressionable young teens! Oh the wonders of tenure – the Union is very strong in NYC!
Hey Pete… Didn’t that also happen in “Abbott and Costello Go to Mars” or am I confusing the two films?
The Gertz was to the west on Jamaica at New York Blvd, wasn’t it? That street is now known as Guy R. Brewer Blvd. Mays was another department store I remember in the area, further to the east on Jamaica Ave around 170th Street. Mays lasted at least into the early 1980’s when I graduated from Jamaica High School.
LI Oddities… You can easily sign up for a free photo-hosting site on the internet such as photobucket.com or webshots.com. Once you’ve uploaded your photos there, you can link to them here with a simple cut and paste into your comments. I’ve posted scores of images on CT using that method.
If you consider yourself computer-challenged, I’d be very happy to host your photos on my photobucket account and post them here for you… But it really is a very simple process to do yourself. You can click on my email address from my profile page if you’d like to contact me.
That would probably be an expensive proposition, BobT. I believe special sub-woofers and amplifiers would have to be installed to recreate the Sensurround experience. And with only 4 titles to choose from (and who knows if decent prints exist for any of them), I don’t see it happening. Megasound from Warner Brothers fared a bit better artistically, with “Outland” and “Altered States” – I wonder if the two systems are compatible?