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Regal Theatre Mann Street and Donnison St, Gosford, NSW 2250 - House lights down

CinemaScope Installation 1956

The ‘Australian Exhibitor’, Thursday January 19, 1956, describe under the heading ‘Sound and Sight are Indissolubly Wedded’. Len Brennan, Chairman of Directors of Tudor Theatres P/L introduced his company’s changeover to CinemaScope, as originally intended, with 4 track magnetic stereophonic sound at Gosford on Monday 9th January with 20th Century Fox’s ‘Love Is A Many Splendored Thing’.

4 Track Magnetic sound *

The introduction of magnetic stereophonic sound has caused more comment than the original opening with CinemaScope. The effects speakers not only surround the theatre walls but a number are also installed in the ceiling at selected positions.

Huge CinemaScope screen *

The screen at the Gosford Regal is 46 feet wide x 20 feet high. There is a curve of 18 inches in the 46 feet wall-to-wall screen and only 56-58 amps is required to light it instead of the normal 70-80 amps, which Brennan attributes to the reflectivity of the Miracle Mirror screen. The distance between walls is 50 feet 6 inches.

Curved Curtain Track *

The main curtains drape into the walls and the result of some clever planning and construction of a specially designed curving curtain track - Contributed by Greg Lynch -