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The DP70 Cinemas | Read more at in70mm.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Written by: Thomas Hauerslev, editor | Date: 27.05.2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 The group of cinemas equipped with the DP70 is very long and impressive. Many of the words most prestigious cinemas had the Rolls-Royce of 70mm projectors installed.Originally Philips Cinema kept very detailed lists of all cinemas with the DP70. The Philips company advertised the machine heavily in all major markets. The following lists are the backbone of this DP70 directory: International Projectionist, December 1959. The ELAgraph vol. 6 no 5 from November 1960 (110 cinemas in the States and 130 cinemas outside the States): Installations indicated with “*”. Norelco, the North American Philips Company, issued a list dated January 16, 1964: Installations indicated with “»”. Installations not mentioned in above mentioned official brochures or lists have no marking. Additionally, where available, I have noted how many projectors each cinema had, as well as information about screen size, number of seats, technical equipment, Cinerama & Cinemiracle and information about speakers, sound formats etc. For many cinemas the number of seats reflects how many seats the cinema had on the day of DP70 installation. Seating capacity information of early US cinemas is based on Motion Picture Almanac 1961 and Variety. | Additional dp70 reading here: DP70 - The Todd-AO Projector DP70 Story DP70 Cinemas everywhere DP70 Serial Numbers Todd-AO 70mm Projectors Internet link: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Most of the original cinemas does not exist any longer. They have either been rebuilt or demolished. If they still exists, it is unusual to find the DP70s still installed. In one case, however, that is possible. The Imperial Bio in Copenhagen, Denmark, had a pair (1644 and 1640) running until December 2011, when #1640 was scrapped on the spot to make room for a 4K digital projector. They had been running continuously since 1 November 1961. Surely a world record - 50 years of service. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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