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Author Topic: Thrillarama- Houston,Texas Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 04-13-2014 04:54 PM                     Apparently this was probably some type of Competition against CINERAMA. It debuted in Houston and supposedly didn't go over that Great. 2 Projectors probably 70mm on a Screen that appears to have a Larger Arc than a Cinerama Screen. Looks like it didn't last very Long...  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-13-2014 09:48 PM                     Widescreen Museum article from Marty Hart Michael Coate, from his REMEMBERING CINERAMA articles, reports this ran for 1-week beginning on 8/9/1956 at the Houston Metropolitan. He also shows 1-week screenings in Philadelphia on 1/21/57 at the Fox, and at the California in San Diego on 2/1/57.  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 04-14-2014 02:27 PM                     Having the join line between the 2 projector's image in the dead center of the screen does not seem like a great idea.  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 04-14-2014 02:54 PM                        Centerfold?  |  IP: Logged Don Sneed Master Film Handler Posts: 451 From: Texas City, TX, USA Registered: Aug 2001 posted 04-23-2014 08:40 AM                        This brings back memories when I serviced the Windsor Theatre in Houston in the late 70's & all of the 80's, they had the three projector setup, I serviced only the 35/70mm when the theater was converted to a twin...too sad to see, but what a palace that was in it's day....  |  IP: Logged

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