THE SCREENING ROOM
A year-by-year, film-by-film history of 70-millimeter wide gauge exhibition in New York City & Vicinity
Compiled by Michael Coate and William Kallay
March 2:
OKLAHOMA! (Re-Issue)
Todd-AO / Six-Track Stereo
Reserved-Seat Engagement
Magna/20th Century-Fox
“You’ve Never Seen ‘Oklahoma!’ Until You See It In Todd-AO”
Syosset: [Skouras] Syosset
Additional 70mm Engagement
Bronxville: [Skouras] Bronxville (June ?)
[Also see 1955, 1967 & 1983 entries and 1978 “Broadway Comes To Broadway” entry]
October 11:
BARABBAS
Super Technirama 70 / Six-Track Stereo
Reserved-Seat Engagement
Columbia
“The Entertainment That Begins Where The Other Big Ones Leave Off!”
Manhattan: [Walter Reade] DeMille
Includes U.S. Premiere on Oct. 10
November 9:
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Ultra Panavision 70 / Six-Track Stereo
Reserved-Seat Engagement
MGM
“The Greatest Adventure Ever Lived Becomes The Greatest Adventure Ever Filmed!”
Manhattan: [Loew’s] State
Includes World Premiere on Nov. 8
Expanded Release on May 17, 1963
Upper Montclair: [Fabian] Bellevue
Expanded Release on May 29, 1963
Syosset: [Skouras] Syosset
Expanded Release on June 19, 1963
Nanuet: [Skouras] Route 59
December 16:
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
Super Panavision 70 / Six-Track Stereo
Reserved-Seat Engagement
Horizon/Columbia
“After five years…the first motion picture from the creators of ‘The Bridge On The River Kwai’”
Manhattan: [B.S. Moss] Criterion
Includes U.S. Premiere on Dec. 15
Expanded Release on Apr. 10, 1963
Asbury Park: [Walter Reade] St. James
Expanded Release on June 12, 1963
Huntington: [Century] Shore
Expanded Release on Aug. 2, 1963
Nanuet: [Skouras] Route 59
Upper Montclair: [Fabian] Bellevue
[Also see 1971, 1989 & 2002 re-issue entries]
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