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New Smithsonian theater opens
posted by
Michael Zoldessy
on
February 8, 2012 at 4:38 pm
WASHINGTON, DC — The new theater at the Smithsonian reported two months ago, opened up last week with a gala for Clint Eastwood. The donations with help from Warner Bros. have now made the space state-of-the-art with 3D capabilities.
Read more in the Huffington Post.
Comments (3)
I was wondering when this bit of news was going to be posted. I remember the old Carmichael Auditorium when I was a kid because the 35mm print of the 1973 film: “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler” upped and burned near the ending of the movie. On a technical side the theater is equipped with Kinoton FP38E Premiere 16/35 projectors and the Barco DP2K-23B DCinema projector (with 3D playback). Sound wise the system can also decode and present film in 7.1 sound
Giles, how large is the screen, esp. how many feet wide for scope films?
no 70mm?