One of the few Cinerama 70MM films ever receiving serious dramatic consideration
by the critics was "Khartoum-" an intelligent Hollywood statement against overseas military
commitment and political involvement.
 

"2001" was the only 70 MM film in Cinerama to become a classic. Selling seats
down in front was always difficult...but not for this cinematic light show!
After the show you folks always asked me "what did I just see?"
Hey, I'm just the doorman (")!

        
Display in lobby

                     
Usherettes
 


 

Ice Station Zebra" was reported in "Variety" as a means to utilize experimental
camera footage of the 70MM Ultra Panavision lens. "The North Face" plot
was abandoned, and an American/Russian crisis became the final screenplay.
The biggest problem of this fiasco was managing the perspiration problems of
the actors like Rock Hudson on the Hollywood sound stage of a "blizzard with
subzero temperatures at the Arctic Circle!"
 

           

Although not advertised as a Cinerama presentation, a 70 mm print of "Song of Norway
was shown on our screen in Seattle.

"Krakatoa" was the last presentation billed as being 70mm Cinerama.
Its shoddy quality reflects the financial motivation and artistic apathy
of the family whose controlling interest in the latter days of the Cinerama
Corporation was its demise.

What great memories that deeply curved wide screen gave us!
From mountain tops to deep under seas Cinerama was there and
exposed us to new horizons!

The yet unduplicated process, combined with our imaginations, took us from the
far corners of the world… and if I may say… influenced all
our lives in an upbeat, mind-expanding way!

Thanks.