Northland Cinema I & II

Thanks DB54 —Disney never seemed to advertise STEREO In their few early stereo 4 track mag movies at all. I wonder If the Disney press ad sheets for Mary had stereo on some of the ads? ‘Mary Poppins’ had a great stereo track and was shown in a few theatres in stereo surround. Some cinemas put in the ad in ‘4 TRACK MAGNETIC STEREO SURROUND SOUND’. Disney did not use wide screen or CinemaScope much either in the early 50’s just a few titles in wide screen. ‘Mary Poppins’ was flat too bad, but at least I got to see it as a kid while working at the Fox Oakland Theatre a block away on the small flat screen at the Roxie Theatre in Oakland in stereo sound owned by the Blumenfeld family. Most of the Blumenfeld theatres never put in CinemaScope wide screens they just lowered the masking down from a square screen. The Roxie is still up but now turned into offices. They always take off the nice neon marquees like the Lux Theatre on Broadway in Oakland now a Goodwill store.