While I can’t recall using “cinerama” in the ads, I can tell you I saw Cheyenne Autumn at the Capitol during Christmas week 1964 and I recall it being projected on as large of a screen as I had ever seen. If memory serves me correctly when the red curtains opened it revealed a screen from floor to ceiling encompassing about the entire length of the theater. I remember the overwhelming size since I sat in the first row! So it’s quite possible the screen had the same dimension as the cinerama screen used for How the West was Won.
In the 60s the York tried its hand as a revival house, among some great double bills I saw there were On Waterfront/A Place in the Sun, One-Eyed Jacks/Bad Day at Black Rock and the Searchers/Lonely are the Brave.
While I can’t recall using “cinerama” in the ads, I can tell you I saw Cheyenne Autumn at the Capitol during Christmas week 1964 and I recall it being projected on as large of a screen as I had ever seen. If memory serves me correctly when the red curtains opened it revealed a screen from floor to ceiling encompassing about the entire length of the theater. I remember the overwhelming size since I sat in the first row! So it’s quite possible the screen had the same dimension as the cinerama screen used for How the West was Won.
In the 60s the York tried its hand as a revival house, among some great double bills I saw there were On Waterfront/A Place in the Sun, One-Eyed Jacks/Bad Day at Black Rock and the Searchers/Lonely are the Brave.