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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
1975
April 24:
“4 Of The Greatest Motion Pictures Ever Made By Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Presented On The World’s Greatest Motion Picture Screen!”
GONE WITH THE WIND (Apr. 24-30)
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (May 1-7)
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (May 15-21)
Manhattan: [Rockefeller] Radio City Music Hall
Included “It’s In Your Stars” stage show — Series also included 35mm engagement of “Singin’ In The Rain” (May 8-14)
[Also see 1965, 1967 & 1968 entries]
May 22:
THE WIND AND THE LION
Anamorphic Blow-Up / Six-Track Stereo
MGM/United Artists
“Between the wind and the lion is the woman. For her, half the world may go to war.”
Manhattan: [Rockefeller] Radio City Music Hall
World Premiere Engagement — Included “Prelude ’76” stage show
June 25:
ROLLERBALL
Spherical Blow-Up / Six-Track Stereo
United Artists
“It’s More Than Just A Game!”
Manhattan: [Walter Reade] Ziegfeld
World Premiere Engagement
August 22:
THE JOLSON STORY (Re-Issue)
Spherical Blow-Up / Six-Track Stereo
Columbia
“You ain’t heard nothin’ yet! The music…the magic…For the first time…In full stereophonic sound…Wide screen 70mm color”
Manhattan: [Walter Reade] Ziegfeld
Includes U.S. Premiere (of 70mm-stereophonic sound version) on Aug. 21
Additional 70mm Engagement
Manhattan: [Rockefeller] Radio City Music Hall* (Sep. 24, 1979)
*Shown for five days during the Musical Memory Lane series
December 25:
LUCKY LADY
Spherical Blow-Up / Six-Track Stereo
20th Century-Fox
Manhattan: [Mann] National
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