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Mayfair Theatre 167 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC - Previously known as Metro Bourke Street.

Source - Herald Newspaper Melbourne Vic - Wednesday April 14 1954

Knights of the Round Table was the first film made by M-G-M using the wide-screen process known as CinemaScope.

The picture was also the first wide-screen feature film to be shot in England. In a 22 Nov 1953 NYT essay on the making of the film, unit man Morgan Hudgins wrote that in addition to being shot in CinemaScope, Knights of the Round Table was also shot in “the more normal wide-screen” (with an aspect ratio of 1.66 to one foot, compared to CinemaScope’s 2.55:1 aspect ratio) and the standard format. This was to cater for cinemas that had not installed CinemaScope.

A Feb 5, 1954 HR news item reported that Knights of the Round Table was the first film for international release to feature M-G-M’s new optical track stereophonic Perspecta sound system.

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