“Almost like a real web
site”
|
IN7OMM.COM
• Search |
Contact
• News |
e-News |
• Rumour Mill |
Stories
• Foreign Language
• in70mm.com auf Deutsch
WHAT'S ON IN 7OMM?
7OMM FESTIVAL
• Todd-AO Festival
• KRRR! 7OMM Seminar
• GIFF 70, Gentofte
• Oslo 7OMM Festival
• Widescreen Weekend
TODD-AO
• Premiere |
Films
• People |
Equipment
• Library |
Cinemas
• Todd-AO Projector
• Distortion Correcting
PANAVISION
• Ultra Panavision
70
• Super Panavision
70
|
|
VISION, SCOPE & RAMA
1926
Natural Vision
1929 Grandeur
1930 Magnifilm
1930 Realife
1930 Vitascope
1952 Cinerama
1953
CinemaScope
1955 Todd-AO
1955 Circle Vision
360
1956
CinemaScope 55
1957 Ultra
Panavision 70
1958 Cinemiracle
1958 Kinopanorama
1959 Super
Panavision 70
1959 Super Technirama 70
1960 Smell-O-Vision
1961 Sovscope
70
1962
Cinerama 360
1962 MCS-70
1963 70mm Blow Up
1963 Circarama
1963 Circlorama
1966 Dimension 150
1966
Stereo-70
1967 DEFA 70
1967 Pik-A-Movie
1970 IMAX / Omnimax
1974 Cinema
180
1974 SENSURROUND
1976 Dolby Stereo
1984 Showscan
1984 Swissorama
1986 iWERKS
1989 ARRI 765
1990 CDS
1994 DTS / Datasat
2001
Super Dimension 70
2018 Magellan 65
•
Various Large format
| 70mm to 3-strip |
3-strip to 70mm |
Specialty Large Format |
Special Effects in 65mm |
ARC-120 |
Super Dimension 70
| Early Large Format
• 7OMM Premiere in
Chronological Order
7OMM FILM & CINEMA
• Australia |
Brazil
• Canada |
Denmark
• England |
France
• Germany |
Iran
• Mexico |
Norway
• Sweden |
Turkey
• USA
LIBRARY
• 7OMM Projectors
• People |
Eulogy
• 65mm/70mm Workshop
• The 7OMM Newsletter
• Back issue |
PDF
• Academy of the WSW
7OMM NEWS
• 2026 | 2025 | 2024
• 2023 |
2022 |
2021
• 2020 |
2019 |
2018
• 2017 |
2016 |
2015
• 2014 |
2013 |
2012
• 2011 |
2010 | 2009
• 2008 | 2007 |
2006
• 2005 | 2004 |
2003
• 2002 |
2001 |
2000
• 1999 |
1998 |
1997
• 1996 |
1995 |
1994
|
in70mm.com Mission:
• To record the history of the large format movies and the 70mm cinemas
as remembered by the people who worked with the films. Both during
making and during running the films in projection rooms and as the
audience, looking at the curved screen.
•
in70mm.com, a unique internet based magazine, with articles about 70mm
cinemas, 70mm people, 70mm films, 70mm sound, 70mm film credits, 70mm
history and 70mm technology. Readers and fans of 70mm are always welcome
to contribute.
•
Disclaimer |
Updates
• Support us
• Testimonials
• Table of Content
|
|
|
Extracts and longer
parts of in70mm.com may be reprinted with the written permission from
the editor.
Copyright © 1800 - 2070. All rights reserved.
Visit biografmuseet.dk about Danish cinemas
|
| |
"Streets of Fire", The 70mm Engagements
“Tonight is what it means to be young.” |
Read more at in70mm.com The 70mm Newsletter
|
Compiled by: Michael Coate |
Date:
01.06.2014 |
Click
the advert to see enlargement
The following is a reference / historical listing of the 70-millimeter
engagements of “Streets of Fire” in the United States and Canada. These were
the cinemas worth seeking out to experience this motion picture.
“Streets of Fire” was among sixteen confirmed first-run films released in
1984 with 70mm prints for selected engagements. The Universal release —
directed by Walter Hill (“The Warriors,” “Geronimo: An American Legend”) and
starring Michael Pare, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis and Amy Madigan — opened
June 1st.
For the release of “Streets of Fire”, Universal employed the services of
Lucasfilm’s Theatre Alignment Program (TAP) to evaluate and approve the
cinemas selected to book a 70mm print.
The film’s 70mm prints featured pillarboxed imagery (approximately 1.85:1)
blown up from spherical 35mm and Six-Track Dolby Stereo (“A” encoded Baby
Boom format).
Universal circulated 70mm Six-Track Dolby trailers for “All of Me,” “Cloak
and Dagger,” “Conan the Destroyer,” “Dune” and “The Last Starfighter” during
the release of “Streets of Fire.” Other studios circulated 70mm trailers, as
well, during this period. The 70mm trailers, if any, ultimately seen during
70mm presentations of “Streets of Fire” varied by venue and screening.
The duration of the engagements (measured in weeks) is included in
parenthesis following the applicable cinema name.
|
More in 70mm reading:
70mm Engagements
70mm Film
Presentations in London, England 1958 - 2012
70mm Blow Up List
1984 - by in70mm.com
|
Click
the advert to see enlargement
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Vancouver — Famous Players’ Denman Place (3)
CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles — GCC’s Avco Center Triplex (3) [THX]
Los Angeles — Pacific’s Hollywood Pacific Triplex (6)
Oakland — Cinerama’s Piedmont (2)
San Francisco — Blumenfeld’s Regency II (3)
San Jose — Syufy’s Century 24 Twin (3)
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Washington — Circle’s Uptown (1)
ILLINOIS
Chicago — GCC’s Ford City 5 (2)
Chicago Ridge — Chicago Ridge Mall Triplex (2)
Schaumburg — Plitt’s Woodfield 4 (2)
NEW YORK
New York — RKO Century’s National Twin (6)
New York — UA’s Gemini Twin (2)
ONTARIO
Toronto — Famous Players’ Palace Triplex (3)
Toronto — Famous Players’ Uptown 5 (3)
QUEBEC
Montreal — United’s York (6)
TEXAS
Dallas — GCC’s Northpark West Twin (2) [THX]
Fort Worth — GCC’s Opera House (2)
Note that some of the presentations included in this listing may have been
presented in 35mm during the latter week(s) of engagement due to contractual
terms or print damage and the distributor’s unwillingness to supply a 70mm
replacement print or because the booking was moved to a non-70mm-equipped
auditorium within a multiplex. As well, the reverse may have been true in
some cases whereas a booking began with a 35mm print because the lab was
unable to complete the 70mm print order in time for an opening-day delivery
or the exhibitor negotiated a mid-run switch to 70mm. In these cases, any
35mm portion of the engagement (or movement out of a branded auditorium) has
been included in the duration figure.
|
|
Actual
70mm from "Streets of Fire".
Click the image to see enlargement
SUBSEQUENT 70MM ENGAGEMENTS & SCREENINGS
1984-06-22 … San Francisco, CA — Blumenfeld’s Regency III (1)
1984-06-29 … San Francisco, CA — Blumenfeld’s Regency III (1) [w/ “Greystoke”]
1984-09-14 … Norfolk, VA — Naro [Fri-Sat late show]
1984-09-28 … Cleveland, OH — Colony (1)
1993-07-17 … Toronto, ON — Famous Players’ Uptown 5 [Saturday Latenite]
2017-08-13 … Santa Monica, CA — Aero [70mm series w/ “Last Action Hero”]
2017-11-17 … Chicago, IL — Music Box [Fri/Sat midnight]
2018-02-27 … Portland, OR — Hollywood [70mm series]
2020-02-19 … San Francisco, CA — Alamo Drafthouse New Mission [Weird
Wednesday]
2020-02-20 … San Francisco, CA — Alamo Drafthouse New Mission [Weird
Wednesday]
2020-05-29 … Somerville, MA — Somerville [70mm series] (canceled)
2022-06-24 … Somerville, MA — Somerville [70mm series; w/ “Last Action
Hero”]
2022-07-15 … Santa Monica, CA — Aero [70mm festival; w/ “Geronimo”]
2022-08-27 … New York, NY — Museum of the Moving Image [70mm series]
2022-09-02 … New York, NY — Museum of the Moving Image [70mm series]
2022-09-04 … New York, NY — Museum of the Moving Image [70mm series]
2022-12-03 … Cleveland, OH — Strosacker [CWRU Film Society series]
The information in this article was principally referenced from film
industry trade publications and regional newspaper promotion, print
enclosures, TAP records, and Dolby records. Special thanks to Brecht
Andersch, Don Beelik, Ana Gomes, Ian Judge, Bill Kallay, Bill Kretzel, Mark
Lensenmayer, Stan Malone, Tim O’Neill, and Joe Odenthal.
International 70mm presentations of this title have not been accounted for
in this work.
If you believe this article contains any errors or omissions, please
consider emailing the
author or editor.
|
|
|
|
Go: back - top - back issues - news index Updated
21-01-24 |
|
|