Cineworld Cinema - Leicester Square
5 Leicester Square,
London,
WC2H 7NA
5 Leicester Square,
London,
WC2H 7NA
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Trade journal report on site’s modernization in 1962
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The article, which must surely be considered to be a key historical record, is from the June 1963 issue of International Projectionist, and continues onto the next page.
High resolution files of the original photographed pages (captured with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II) are available to download (with a preview shown) on the Internet Archive:
Page 1. Page 2.
The second page also provides the screen size, as it was then, as well as the picture sizes for various aspect ratios.
Very interesting, especially the informations about the different picture formats on the screen. I didn’t know that those from 1962 were different from those I discovered from the 80’s and on in the 90’s, until they modified them again when they went digital. In the 80’s, standard 70mm occupied a surface of 52-51ft x 23 ft.
Lionel: The sizes following the 2006 works are available in a post on Cinema Treasures.
To quote from that post (with imperial conversions added):
“Screen Dimensions
Cinemascope: 18.38x7.62m, 85mm Schneider Cinelux Premiere aspheric variable-iris combined anamorphic lens (60.3x25ft.) Widescreen: 14.95x8.06m, 52.5mm Schneider Cinelux Premiere aspheric variable iris lens (49x26.4ft.) 70mm: 18.04x8.23m, 100mm Schnieder Super Cinelux Lens (59.2x27ft.) D-Cinema image sizes are as 35mm"
There must be an error somewhere in the figures given by the International Projectionist article, for it states that the screen is 63ft. wide, yet the image is 64ft. wide for “Panavision ratio (2.7:1).”
Do you have the image sizes for other formats in the 80’s/90’s?