Dundee Theater
4952 Dodge Street,
Omaha,
NE
68132
4952 Dodge Street,
Omaha,
NE
68132
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Website: Dundee Now divided into 2 screens, one with 300 seats and the other a microcinema seating 25. Also offering food from a full menu in Lola’s Cafe.
A chronology of Omaha’s 70mm presentation history has recently been published. The Dundee is mentioned numerous times.
March 2018 article about the renovations and reopening with photos.
https://savingplaces.org/stories/now-playing-film-streams-show-stopping-revival-of-omahas-historic-dundee-theater?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR3XYVSAMnr2mNe4P34iKAbEMj1ajb1l768Uih1kRrXTjxgdlGA8UQePpKA#.W9e6Mx9ReUk
Film streams has finished renovating the theater and it reopens today!
http://www.omaha.com/photos-a-first-look-inside-the-new-dundee-theater/collection_af296c62-d463-11e7-baed-0387287dfa28.html
Circa 1996 photo added courtesy of Ann Bordwine Beeder.
http://www.omaha.com/go/arts/sherwood-foundation-will-donate-dundee-theater-to-film-streams-with/article_8d1169bd-5624-5588-983b-8ec7b68fd6a0.html?TNNoMobile
Sherwood will donate the building to Film Streams.
It was 50 years ago today that “The Sound of Music” premiered at the Dundee. With a reserved-seat run of 118 weeks, it’s almost certainly the long-run record holder for this venue. (Anyone know of something that ran longer?) It was one of ten runs in the United States and at least 24 globally that ran the movie continuously into a third year.
This item from the May 30, 1925, issue of Exhibitors Trade Review is surely about the Dundee Theatre:
The Dundee Theatre opened on December 19, 1925. It had a four-manual Hillgreen-Lane organ to accompany the silent movies that were its primary fare. Quite a few Internet sources say that the Dundee opened as a vaudeville theater, but in this suburban neighborhood location this fairly small house would have operated primarily as a movie theater, probably bringing in a few vaudeville acts as an occasional added attraction.The archives of The Omaha World-Herald have this (partial) ad published the day before the theater opened.
The father and son team of John and Alan McDonald were among Omaha’s leading architects of the period. Hansen’s decision to give them the commission for this theater was an indication that he was well aware of the need to impress his potential patrons, the residents of this well-to-do enclave, with something more than an ordinary neighborhood movie house.
Back in the 40’s when I was a kid my brother and I took our 12 cents for a ticket and 5 cents for popcorn to the Dundee Theatre and watched Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, or the Lone Ranger every Saturday morning. We couldn’t wait to get there because many of those movies were serials so we had to keep coming back. The place was packed and we had so much fun!
http://www.omaha.com/go/dundee-theater-will-open-again-says-owner/article_19c9b656-3072-53d2-acae-c332ef685e87.html
“Moran said he had no firm timeline on when the work would be accomplished, but he now expects the theater’s reopening to be sometime in 2015.”
http://www.omaha.com/article/20130403/GO/130409849/1696#dundee-theatre-to-close-for-renovations
“Dundee Theatre to close for renovations”
“Built in 1925 as a vaudeville house, the Dundee will continue life as a venue for independent arthouse movies when it reopens sometime around the holidays or in early 2014, Moran said Wednesday.”
“Theater Houses ‘Round Town” Omaha World-Herald (NE) – Sunday, June 16, 1985
“Dundee
4952 Dodge St., 551 – 3595. One screen. Tickets are $2 for showings that start before 6 p.m., otherwise $3.75 except $3 for students, $2 for those younger than 13 or older than 61. Matinees on weekends and major holidays, and during summer and winter school vacations."
A Photo I took in Nov of 2007..
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RAC Photography
I’d say it’s accurate, I didn’t find anything otherwise after reading the listing
Some background information here:
http://tinyurl.com/456r5a
I saw “Casablanca” there in the early 90’s…The film was not in focus, and also was not centered on the screen :–(
Saw “Far From The Madding Crowd” there in 1968 with my senior English class from Fremont High.
Was back in town in 1972 or so and saw “Young Winston” there.