Here’s a view of the Warner showing THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD in 1965, on a postcard plugging the new Cue sign on the top of the building: View link
Excellent, thanks for your quick responses, saps & William. Couldn’t find a proper Warner in NY here on CinemaTreasures, now I see it’s listed as Strand. Will fix info in Flickr.
So here’s a postcard I have of a Warner on Times Square. From what I can see in the posted pictures it looks similar. Which theater could it be? View link
The final definite last screening at the Bellevue Cinerama was that of a gorgeous unfaded 70mm print of SKY OVER HOLLAND and then CINEMA PARADISO (35mm, not the Director’s Cut) on December 3rd, 2006. I do'n recall the last screening in the Calypso, but it was earlier, probably during the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival of 2006. The seats had been removed from the balcony then. The two small auditoriums of Bellevue and Calypso had closed years before, around 2003 or 2004.
Hmm.. There were quite a few theaters with large screens, some curved, not all of them having premieres though. My guess is it was the City, in the centre, or otherwise perhaps the gorgeous Tuschinski, the Flora, Du Midi or Cinema West / International. The latter two were not downtown. Maybe you can find it on this page about the 70mm theaters of Amsterdam: http://www.70mm.nl/
De Uitkijk is currently closed for renovation. The small auditorium will feature sloped seating (semi stadium seating) and reopen as a Documentary-only theatre or perhaps a repetory house.
Some other recent photos can be seen here in my Flickr stream: View link
What an excellent festival, although you may end up wrecked and crying at the end of the weekend, with so much melancholy and sadness. Let’s hope the discussion can stirr things up and make people walk out with a smile? Or maybe not, it is very serious business. Jim made a shorter version of Preserve me, which is even better I think.
When I showed it, I had about a dozen framed enlargement of old postcards on display. You could do something likewise, let me know if you need help (I have hundreds of scanned postcards). There’s also a documentary on the Joy and other theatres of New Orleans.
In all, I wish you all the luck and lots of visitors!
Here’s a picture I took in August 1998 of the Pacific: View link
Here’s the postcard of the Warner showing Cinerama Holiday that has been mentioned before, with the Iris (Fox) on the right: View link
Wow, I’m very curious, I need to go inside and check it out! I just remember it as an ugly Seventies building. Pictures of it’s current state can be seen here: View link
Here’s a postcard from 1957 of Market Street, with the Esquire as well as the Telenews, which doesn’t have it’s own listing on Cinema Treasures yet? The Paramount’s marquee can be seen in the far distance. View link
Great pictures Ken! I have a postcard from 1957 here with the Paramount in the far distance and the Esquire up front (as well as the Telenews, which doesn’t have it’s own listing on Cinema Treasures yet?). View link
Here’s a photo I took, very much like Geralds, taken just a month later, in the last week of July of 2000, when the Siggraph Conventions Film fest was held at the Saenger. View link
Incredible, This most be the theatre with most comments here on Cinema Treasures. So many in fact, they could use a bit of ordering and sorting. In any case if anyone still likes to, have a look at a couple of Curteich cards I recently bought of the RCMH, from the Thirties and Fourties: View link
I’ve uploaded a nice old postcard to my Flickr stream, I have no clue from when, I think between late thirties, but it might very well be in it’s opening year, which happens a lot with Cinema Postcard photography.
As a visual effects afficianado (and upcoming artist) I became a fan years ago of the making of the film, but hadn’t seen it until a couple of years ago. I’ve gathered a lot of weird merchandise over the years including a glow-in-the-dark yo-yo, as well as a lot of posters, lobbycards, books and magazines. I also have the trailer, teaser and a CinemaScope print (mono) on 35mm. I screened it some years ago at a university theatre in Germany for a very enthousiastic small crowd of classic video game enthousiasts (of which I also used to be one). I had a 20 minute preshow reel filled with 35mm ads for videogames (Yars' Revenge and a Parker Bros ad for the Atari 2600 and then modern ones) as well as a lot of trailers (WARGAMES, CLOAK & DAGGER, SUPER MARIO BROS, TOMB RAIDER), and it was great fun, and my ultimate TRON experience (although I was quite sad to see that the print I had bought many years before, which I now saw for the first time, had many scratches).
There is a superb original 70mm print in the UK at the BFI or so, which was shown in York at a 70mm filmfest, a once-but-never-again occasion, said Disney.
I was lucky enough to get 5 minutes inside the stunning Olympia when I was in Miami last januari. It was a tuesday night and the theatre was closed, but a lovely lady who was about to close off and go home let me in for just a bit. There was no one else there but her and two friends and me and my girlfriend. As we were making her wait, all I could do is take a couple of pictures and be awed by my first atmospheric experience. Check out the photos on my flickrstream: View link
I also purchased an old postcard from around the opening time I think, or actually, when did it become a ‘Publix’ theatre? View link
Here’s a view of the Warner showing THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD in 1965, on a postcard plugging the new Cue sign on the top of the building: View link
Excellent, thanks for your quick responses, saps & William. Couldn’t find a proper Warner in NY here on CinemaTreasures, now I see it’s listed as Strand. Will fix info in Flickr.
So here’s a postcard I have of a Warner on Times Square. From what I can see in the posted pictures it looks similar. Which theater could it be? View link
The final definite last screening at the Bellevue Cinerama was that of a gorgeous unfaded 70mm print of SKY OVER HOLLAND and then CINEMA PARADISO (35mm, not the Director’s Cut) on December 3rd, 2006. I do'n recall the last screening in the Calypso, but it was earlier, probably during the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival of 2006. The seats had been removed from the balcony then. The two small auditoriums of Bellevue and Calypso had closed years before, around 2003 or 2004.
Hmm.. There were quite a few theaters with large screens, some curved, not all of them having premieres though. My guess is it was the City, in the centre, or otherwise perhaps the gorgeous Tuschinski, the Flora, Du Midi or Cinema West / International. The latter two were not downtown. Maybe you can find it on this page about the 70mm theaters of Amsterdam: http://www.70mm.nl/
The Bellevue Cinerama, as well as the Calypso theater which was on the same lot, have now been demolished. See photos in my Flickr stream: View link
De Uitkijk is currently closed for renovation. The small auditorium will feature sloped seating (semi stadium seating) and reopen as a Documentary-only theatre or perhaps a repetory house.
Some other recent photos can be seen here in my Flickr stream: View link
What an excellent festival, although you may end up wrecked and crying at the end of the weekend, with so much melancholy and sadness. Let’s hope the discussion can stirr things up and make people walk out with a smile? Or maybe not, it is very serious business. Jim made a shorter version of Preserve me, which is even better I think.
When I showed it, I had about a dozen framed enlargement of old postcards on display. You could do something likewise, let me know if you need help (I have hundreds of scanned postcards). There’s also a documentary on the Joy and other theatres of New Orleans.
In all, I wish you all the luck and lots of visitors!
Here’s a picture I took in August 1998 of the Pacific: View link
Here’s the postcard of the Warner showing Cinerama Holiday that has been mentioned before, with the Iris (Fox) on the right:
View link
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for a postcard of the Iris and Warner, and a better look at my picture that’s featured at the top of this page here:
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Wow, I’m very curious, I need to go inside and check it out! I just remember it as an ugly Seventies building. Pictures of it’s current state can be seen here: View link
Thanks! I’ll need to update my info.
Here’s a postcard from 1957 of Market Street, with the Esquire as well as the Telenews, which doesn’t have it’s own listing on Cinema Treasures yet? The Paramount’s marquee can be seen in the far distance. View link
Great pictures Ken! I have a postcard from 1957 here with the Paramount in the far distance and the Esquire up front (as well as the Telenews, which doesn’t have it’s own listing on Cinema Treasures yet?). View link
I finally uploaded the picture I took in the summer of 1999 of the Loyola on my flickrstream: View link
Just ordered that DVD. I photographed the Joy just a couple of weeks after Gerald at the end of july, 2000: View link
Here’s a photo I took, very much like Geralds, taken just a month later, in the last week of July of 2000, when the Siggraph Conventions Film fest was held at the Saenger. View link
I’ve also found another postcard (virtually, not physically unfortunately), a daytime ‘photo’ of the row taken from the other side here: View link
See the legendary “Four Theatres in a Row” on this Curteich postcard I recently purchased: View link
Incredible, This most be the theatre with most comments here on Cinema Treasures. So many in fact, they could use a bit of ordering and sorting. In any case if anyone still likes to, have a look at a couple of Curteich cards I recently bought of the RCMH, from the Thirties and Fourties: View link
Oops, here’s a link: View link
I’ve uploaded a nice old postcard to my Flickr stream, I have no clue from when, I think between late thirties, but it might very well be in it’s opening year, which happens a lot with Cinema Postcard photography.
As a visual effects afficianado (and upcoming artist) I became a fan years ago of the making of the film, but hadn’t seen it until a couple of years ago. I’ve gathered a lot of weird merchandise over the years including a glow-in-the-dark yo-yo, as well as a lot of posters, lobbycards, books and magazines. I also have the trailer, teaser and a CinemaScope print (mono) on 35mm. I screened it some years ago at a university theatre in Germany for a very enthousiastic small crowd of classic video game enthousiasts (of which I also used to be one). I had a 20 minute preshow reel filled with 35mm ads for videogames (Yars' Revenge and a Parker Bros ad for the Atari 2600 and then modern ones) as well as a lot of trailers (WARGAMES, CLOAK & DAGGER, SUPER MARIO BROS, TOMB RAIDER), and it was great fun, and my ultimate TRON experience (although I was quite sad to see that the print I had bought many years before, which I now saw for the first time, had many scratches).
There is a superb original 70mm print in the UK at the BFI or so, which was shown in York at a 70mm filmfest, a once-but-never-again occasion, said Disney.
I have a postcard for the Chicago from 1922 which claims it has 5 000 seats!
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I was lucky enough to get 5 minutes inside the stunning Olympia when I was in Miami last januari. It was a tuesday night and the theatre was closed, but a lovely lady who was about to close off and go home let me in for just a bit. There was no one else there but her and two friends and me and my girlfriend. As we were making her wait, all I could do is take a couple of pictures and be awed by my first atmospheric experience. Check out the photos on my flickrstream: View link
I also purchased an old postcard from around the opening time I think, or actually, when did it become a ‘Publix’ theatre? View link