St. James Theatre
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“Blackboard Jungle” opened at the St James and suburbs 21 July 1955. It was advertised as being in Metroscope and Perspecta Stereophonic Sound. Metroscope was actually the blow-up presentation format which Metro had introduced two years earlier as ‘Panoramic Screen’. The screen aspect ratio was in the 1.66:1/1.75:1 range with theaters using simple spherical enlarging lenses rather than the anamorphic type commonly associated with the term ‘Scope’. A censorship controversy and the addition of newfangled music to the soundtrack - “Rock Around the Clock” - (not mentioned in this ad.) created considerable audience interest.
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