I have the 2-disc Blu-Ray of “South Pacific” released in 2010 in the United Kingdom in a Regions A, B, & C format. Disc 1 is the Theatrical Version taken from a 35mm print. Disc 2 is the ‘Road Show’ Version taken from a Todd-AO print.
A notice on Disc 2 states:
“What you are about to see is the "Road Show version of Rogers and Hammerstein’s "South Pacific” as it played in movie theaters when it was first released, with an intermission. Later a shorter “General Release” version was created, and that has been the version seen throughout the years.
For this release we have restored the master which was taken from the original negative and the master sound elements, cut for the “General Release”. There are approximately 14 additional minutes in the “Road Show” version, and you will notice a significant difference between that footage and the footage that is shared between the two versions. Over time, the best elements unique to the “Road Show” version have been lost or destroyed, so we have taken those sequences from the best source material available."
The “Road Show” version has Overture music, Entr'acte music and Exit music after the credits (all played on a black blank screen. The running time given is 151 minutes (157 minutes General Release in theatres) There is no running time given for the Road Show release (but it ran 171 minutes in theatres). Sound is 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio or 4.0 Dolby Surround.
Vindanpar:The Todd-AO screen at the Dominion Theatre was 46ft wide and had a 5ft deep curve. It was located inside the 54ft wide proscenium.
cultman1:A new larger Todd-AO screen was installed in the Metropole Theatre in December 1959 (I don’t know the actual size). The initial roadshow screen at the Astoria was installed in 1957 and “the screen was not giant sized” according to Allen Eyles book “London’s West End Cinemas”. “Later in 1965 a huge 70mm screen had been installed”.
Another West End cinema set up for CinemaScope and later Cinemiracle was the Paramount, Tottenham Court Road which had a CinemaScope screen 53ft wide and 21ft tall with a 3ft deep curve in June 1953. This was replaced in May 1958 with a huge 71ft wide and 28ft tall Cinemiracle screen for “Windjammer” which extended beyond the proscenium arch and played with a 3-projectors system.
The deeply curved Cinerama screen at the London Coliseum was 80ft wide and 30ft tall (much bigger than the one at the London Casino (Prince Edward Theatre) which had a deeply curved screen 65ft wide & 26ft tall).
“The Ten Commandments” got an ABC general countrywide re-release in March 1973, so its possible that it played the ABC Shaftesbury Avenue a little earlier. Originally a live theatre (Saville Theatre of 1931), from 1970 it became a twin-screen cinema for ABC. Still open today as the Odeon Covent Garden http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/911
Joe: I too am confused now! Would you mind creating a new revised page for this theatre and I will then delete this page. Also please add a new page for the Main Street Theatre (Bijou/Orpheum). Thanks
Amitton: By 1937-1944, the Theatre Royal was operated as a cinema by Northern Theatres Co. Ltd. of 5 Rawson Street, Halifax. By 1947 they were still the operators, but had changed the named to Cinema Royal.
conor:Many thanks for the corrections. I have deleted the two ‘incorrect’ photos of the dance hall and reset the Google Street view. Thanks for posting your vintage photgraph which give a good perspective of the location of the cinema.
Terry & Christina: Though very interesting your 23 comments are way off topic for the Princes Cinema, Blackpool. Please keep them to yourselves via private e-mails or post on the relevent theatre pages. Thanks. Ken Roe, Volunteer Theatre Editor.
As we approach the first anniversary of the disasterous fire which occured on December 16, 2016, I would like to give you details of a wonderful book which has been published in 2017:
“Sag Harbor:100 Years of Film in the Village” by Annette Hinkle. Published by East End Press and available from Amazon for $35.00
With 128 pages and hundreds of photographs (many in color), the book charts the history of the theatre and others in the town, right up to that fateful night. It is a ‘must’ for any collector of cinema buildings books.
Ron Pierce: I see that 1329 O Street is in ‘Downton’, Lincoln with Zip Code 68508. This Joyo Theatre is in the Havelock district to the northeast of Lincoln. In the Film Daily Yearbooks 1920’s and 1930’s, Havelock is listed as a seperate town.
Joe: Moorhead had no theatres listed in 1914-1915. Film Daily Yearbook’s 1926- 1929 only show a Star Theatre in Moorhead (no seating capacity given) it could be typo. There is no theatre listed in 1931. The 1932, 1933 & 1934 editions show a Regent Theatre (Closed) with 300 seats. No theatre listed in 1935, 1936 & 1937. The Strand Theatre is listed in 1938 (no seating capacity given), and 325 seats in 1939.
bia: It was listed in editions of Kine Yearbook 1934 & 1937 as the King Picture Theatre (could have been a typo, but if so, would(should) have been corrected over the years). By 1944 it was listed as the Kino
davidcoppock:It is mainly vacant, but occasionally used for ‘pop-up’ events. There were plans in the mid-2000’s to build a multiplex cinema on the site.
70mm titles now announced and booking has opened: 9/21 at 7:30 “Brainstorm” (1983) 9/21 at 10pm “Lifeforce” (1985)
9/22 at 2pm “Kong:Scull Island” (2017) 9/22 at 7pm “Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines” (1965)
9/23 at 2pm “El Cid” (1961) 9/23 at 7pm “Malcolm X” (1992)
9/25 at 7:15 “Spartacus” (1960)
9/26 at 7:30 “Khartoum” (1966) in 70mm Ultra Panovision
9/28 at 7:30 “The Witches of Eastwick” (1987) 9/28 at 10pm “The Thing” (1982)
9/29 at 2pm “70mm Odds & "Ends” Rare 70mm footage 9/29 at 7pm “Patton” (1970)
9/30 at 3pm “2001:A Space Odyssey” (1968)
I have the 2-disc Blu-Ray of “South Pacific” released in 2010 in the United Kingdom in a Regions A, B, & C format. Disc 1 is the Theatrical Version taken from a 35mm print. Disc 2 is the ‘Road Show’ Version taken from a Todd-AO print.
A notice on Disc 2 states: “What you are about to see is the "Road Show version of Rogers and Hammerstein’s "South Pacific” as it played in movie theaters when it was first released, with an intermission. Later a shorter “General Release” version was created, and that has been the version seen throughout the years.
For this release we have restored the master which was taken from the original negative and the master sound elements, cut for the “General Release”. There are approximately 14 additional minutes in the “Road Show” version, and you will notice a significant difference between that footage and the footage that is shared between the two versions. Over time, the best elements unique to the “Road Show” version have been lost or destroyed, so we have taken those sequences from the best source material available."
The “Road Show” version has Overture music, Entr'acte music and Exit music after the credits (all played on a black blank screen. The running time given is 151 minutes (157 minutes General Release in theatres) There is no running time given for the Road Show release (but it ran 171 minutes in theatres). Sound is 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio or 4.0 Dolby Surround.
Vindanpar:The Todd-AO screen at the Dominion Theatre was 46ft wide and had a 5ft deep curve. It was located inside the 54ft wide proscenium.
cultman1:A new larger Todd-AO screen was installed in the Metropole Theatre in December 1959 (I don’t know the actual size). The initial roadshow screen at the Astoria was installed in 1957 and “the screen was not giant sized” according to Allen Eyles book “London’s West End Cinemas”. “Later in 1965 a huge 70mm screen had been installed”.
Another West End cinema set up for CinemaScope and later Cinemiracle was the Paramount, Tottenham Court Road which had a CinemaScope screen 53ft wide and 21ft tall with a 3ft deep curve in June 1953. This was replaced in May 1958 with a huge 71ft wide and 28ft tall Cinemiracle screen for “Windjammer” which extended beyond the proscenium arch and played with a 3-projectors system.
The deeply curved Cinerama screen at the London Coliseum was 80ft wide and 30ft tall (much bigger than the one at the London Casino (Prince Edward Theatre) which had a deeply curved screen 65ft wide & 26ft tall).
The 3rd Annual 70mm & Widescreen Film Festival will be held on September 20-30, 2018.
“The Ten Commandments” got an ABC general countrywide re-release in March 1973, so its possible that it played the ABC Shaftesbury Avenue a little earlier. Originally a live theatre (Saville Theatre of 1931), from 1970 it became a twin-screen cinema for ABC. Still open today as the Odeon Covent Garden http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/911
Joe: I too am confused now! Would you mind creating a new revised page for this theatre and I will then delete this page. Also please add a new page for the Main Street Theatre (Bijou/Orpheum). Thanks
The photograph of the 1st Ganes Theatre (former Standard Theatre) has been moved to its correct page.
The Starlight Six Drive-In was featured in scenes in the 2016 movie “Cell” starring John Cusack & Samuel L. Jackson.
Google Streetview and address have been corrected.
Amitton: By 1937-1944, the Theatre Royal was operated as a cinema by Northern Theatres Co. Ltd. of 5 Rawson Street, Halifax. By 1947 they were still the operators, but had changed the named to Cinema Royal.
conor:Many thanks for the corrections. I have deleted the two ‘incorrect’ photos of the dance hall and reset the Google Street view. Thanks for posting your vintage photgraph which give a good perspective of the location of the cinema.
SethG: Google Street View has been corrected.
Moonzerotwo: “Psychomania” & “The Baby” had an Odeon/Rank release on the first week of May 1973 (selected theatres).
Terry & Christina: Though very interesting your 23 comments are way off topic for the Princes Cinema, Blackpool. Please keep them to yourselves via private e-mails or post on the relevent theatre pages. Thanks. Ken Roe, Volunteer Theatre Editor.
A page has been added for Cinema 5.
Map & Google street view corrected.
bobtomgrim: I have added a page for the Regent Cinema. Please let me know if you have any further details.
As we approach the first anniversary of the disasterous fire which occured on December 16, 2016, I would like to give you details of a wonderful book which has been published in 2017:
“Sag Harbor:100 Years of Film in the Village” by Annette Hinkle. Published by East End Press and available from Amazon for $35.00
With 128 pages and hundreds of photographs (many in color), the book charts the history of the theatre and others in the town, right up to that fateful night. It is a ‘must’ for any collector of cinema buildings books.
Ron Pierce: I see that 1329 O Street is in ‘Downton’, Lincoln with Zip Code 68508. This Joyo Theatre is in the Havelock district to the northeast of Lincoln. In the Film Daily Yearbooks 1920’s and 1930’s, Havelock is listed as a seperate town.
Joe: Moorhead had no theatres listed in 1914-1915. Film Daily Yearbook’s 1926- 1929 only show a Star Theatre in Moorhead (no seating capacity given) it could be typo. There is no theatre listed in 1931. The 1932, 1933 & 1934 editions show a Regent Theatre (Closed) with 300 seats. No theatre listed in 1935, 1936 & 1937. The Strand Theatre is listed in 1938 (no seating capacity given), and 325 seats in 1939.
Happy Belated 80th Birthday to the Odeon Leicester Square yesterday.
bia: It was listed in editions of Kine Yearbook 1934 & 1937 as the King Picture Theatre (could have been a typo, but if so, would(should) have been corrected over the years). By 1944 it was listed as the Kino
davidcoppock:It is mainly vacant, but occasionally used for ‘pop-up’ events. There were plans in the mid-2000’s to build a multiplex cinema on the site.
The former Blackstone Theatre (now Merle Reskin Theatre) has been added to Cinema Treasures.