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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
1977
March 10:
NIGHTS AND DAYS (“Noce I Dnie”)
Uncredited 65mm / Six-Track Stereo
Polski
“Original, Spectacular 5 Hour Version In 70mm Presented On The Largest Screen In New York”
Manhattan: [RKO Stanley-Warner] Cinerama 2
U.S. Premiere — “Exclusive One Day Only”
May 25:
Anamorphic Blow-Up / Six-Track Dolby Stereo
Lucasfilm Ltd./20th Century-Fox
“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…”
Hicksville: [Mann] Twin South
Manhattan: [Loews] Astor Plaza
Manhattan: [Loews] Orpheum
Paramus: [RKO Stanley-Warner] Triplex Paramus
Additional 70mm Engagements
Levittown: [Loews] Nassau Quad (Dec. 16)
Cedar Grove: [Colonial] Cinema 23 (Dec. 23)
Lawrence: [RKO] Twin (Dec. 23)
[Also see 1979, 1981, 1982 & 1983 re-issue entries and 1985 Triple Feature/“Return Of The Jedi” re-issue entry and 1992 ILM Tribute entry]
October 7:
TOMMY (Re-Issue)
Spherical Blow-Up / Six-Track Stereo
Columbia
“Now…For The First Time Ever! Supersonic 70mm and Super-mind-blowing Ultrasonic Stereo.”
Manhattan: [Walter Reade] Ziegfeld
Additional 70mm Engagement
Manhattan: [B.S. Moss] Criterion (Oct. 20, 1978)
[Original 1975 release in 35mm]
November 16:
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
Anamorphic Blow-Up / Six-Track Dolby Stereo
EMI/Columbia
“We Are Not Alone”
Manhattan: [Walter Reade] Ziegfeld
Includes World Premiere on Nov. 15
Expanded Release on Dec. 14
Paramus: [RKO Stanley-Warner] Triplex Paramus
Additional 70mm Engagements
Manhattan: [Walter Reade] Bay (Apr. 26, 1978)
Manhattan: [Loews] State 1 (Apr. 26, 1978)
Port Washington: [GG] Sands Pt. (June 2, 1978)
[Also see 1980 re-issue entry]
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