Camelot Theatres

MSC77 on February 26, 2023 at 6:13 pm

A chronology of Palm Springs’ 70mm presentation history has recently been published. Camelot is mentioned numerous times.

RogerA on April 27, 2022 at 12:55 pm

I just did a tec service call for house One. They are running three films in 70mm the first weekend in May. This is one of the best 70mm theaters I have seen. Theater number one has two Norelco AA 35/70 projectors. The 70mm picture is wall to wall.

rivest266 on January 11, 2017 at 5:52 am

2 screens on May 27th, 1971. Grand opening ad in the photo section.

rivest266 on January 11, 2017 at 5:30 am

January 6th, 1967 grand opening ad in the photo section.

RobertAlex on November 6, 2013 at 4:32 pm

As a gay man that lived in Palm Springs for over 5 years, this came as a bit of a shock. I mean the gay film festival is held here for goodness sakes. This was my little piece of heaven in the desert. Where else can you see independent films on a 70 foot curved screen with 7.1 Dolby (when available).

I don’t ever like to get political on this site, but I do feel that her response to this should also be posted here as well.

http://www.mydesert.com/article/20131105/OPINION04/311050024/Camelot-Theatres-owner-loves-people-Palm-Springs?nclick_check=1

An open letter to the Palm Springs community.

My name is Rozene Supple. Although I was born in the Midwest, I have been a part-time resident of Palm Springs since 1934 and a full-time resident since 1968. Recently, others have tried to paint a very one-sided picture of who I am. With your forbearance, I’d like to add some color to that canvas.

I love this community. I have seen it through good times and through bad times, and I have always tried to do everything I could to contribute to its well-being with my own energy with financial contributions and through the businesses that I own.

When my husband and I moved here, we invested in this community by opening businesses here. We purchased, refurbished and reopened the defunct Camelot Theatres, and purchased, then reopened a defunct radio station. We have also tried to do our part when it comes to philanthropic causes.

We helped found the Palm Springs International Film Festival, we funded the trauma center at Desert Regional Medical Center, we helped fund the McCallum Theatre, and we have given time and money to a wide variety of other organizations and causes.

Over the years, we have also donated to a number of arts organizations and charities, including the Desert AIDS Project, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Equality California, The Judy Fund, Olive Crest, the Children’s Discovery Museum and others. We didn’t have to do any of these things. We did them because we love our community and its people. That includes the gay and lesbian community — a community that includes many of my closest friends, and a community I both admire and respect.

Having been born in the Midwest to a conservative family, and to a family that had been in the broadcasting business since before I was born, I have also been a supporter of small government and less regulation for most of my life. The broadcasting business is one of the most regulated in our country. I daresay you will find few owners of broadcasting companies that are in favor of big government or more regulation.

As a result of my background and my beliefs, I have been a member of and a supporter of the Republican Party for many years. As the party began to become more and more attached to social causes I personally disagreed with, it became harder and harder for me to continue making those donations, but old habits and longstanding beliefs about the role of government die hard.

I doubt anyone will ever call me a liberal, despite my rather liberal social beliefs and my commitment to the arts.

I can tell you specifically that I am not a fan of either the tea party or the religious right, and that I have been struggling for quite a while with the fact that my efforts to support fiscal responsibility in government have been clouded by these other issues. As a result of that struggle, and because of these recent attempts to paint me as someone I am not, I have decided that I will no longer contribute to any political entity that does not embrace equal rights for all Americans. Truth be told, I will probably stop contributing to any of them.

I realize that some people will find a way to criticize this decision on my part, or spin it in a negative way. That’s their option.

Anyone who knows me knows I answer to my own conscience, and not someone else’s opinion.

They also know there is far more to me than the picture that was painted in the Valley Voice column that was printed in The Desert Sun on Sunday.

jeremyproctor on July 27, 2012 at 12:05 am

Official Information: In June 2011, Camelot Theatres upgraded Aud #1 to allow for Digital Cinema Projection by installing a Christie Solaria CP2230 projector. All existing equipement in Aud #1 remained, with the exception of 16mm. The Norelco 35/70mm projectors are still operational and we are still capable of running reel-to-reel, two projector changeovers. 70mm can only be ran if it has a DTS soundtrack. By the end of August 2012, we will have fully upgraded to Digital Cinema, leaving existing 35mm equipment in Aud #1 and Aud #3. Aud #2 will be exclusively digital, due to space contstrains. If you would like more information, please feel free to contact me directly at . – Thank You :)

William on August 3, 2010 at 9:22 am

When this theatre opened as a D-150 house the full screen was 30 feet high by 68 feet wide.

stanleydiaz on March 16, 2005 at 7:02 am

I was one of the projectionists of the camelot from about 1973 to 1977 when it had a D-150 screen 70mm and 6 channel sound. It was run by F. Hugh Thomas, a third generation Master showman with standards unmatched in the industry. To go from the small “flat” previews and then open the huge 70 foot screen while the picture was projecting on the giant curtain while it was opening was a magnificent event to behold. It was as if the heavens were opening up. Stanley Diaz