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1st Christmas Show with a color feature on screen (1944)
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World premiere engagement opened December 14th, 1944…The movie was in Technicolor, the dominant process then and in limited wartime supply.
I believe I read that during the climactic horse race the Music Hall’s screen was expanded to its Magnascope size.
I always wondered how this worked. During a reel change was the aperture of the next projector used larger and the borders of the screen then enlarged? Then for the end of the film did the screen then shrink to its former size?
Though I believe the last time this was done was for the incredible Busby Berkeley Cypress Gardens' water show from Easy to Love and I doubt there are many people around who could tell us how it worked exactly.