BYE BYE BIRDIE (1 Viewer)

[trajan]

Just finished watching this. Worth watching just to see Ann Margret dance. Does anyone know if it was in 70mm at Radio City Music in 1963? It was their Easter show.

 

[Peter Apruzzese]

No. RCMH first installed 70mm gear for Airport in 1970.

 

[trajan]

No. RCMH first installed 70mm gear for Airport in 1970.

I saw AIRPORT in TODD-AO at RCMH. Very impressive. Too bad the current bluray is only from 35mm source.

 

[John Maher_289910]

I don't believe BYE BYE BIRDIE played in 70MM, anywhere. It was not released as a roadshow.

 

[Richard Gallagher]

I don't believe BYE BYE BIRDIE played in 70MM, anywhere. It was not released as a roadshow.

IMDB says that it played in 70mm in Europe, but those prints were blowups.

 

[John Maher_289910]

Sorry, I was speaking of the United States.

 

[haineshisway]

I don't believe BYE BYE BIRDIE played in 70MM, anywhere. It was not released as a roadshow.

Not in the US. 1963 was the first year for blowups and of the four films listed for that year on the 70mm website, only The Cardinal makes sense, and that's generally considered the first. However, for all four films listed you will see a lot of "unconfirmed" "someone reported they saw" with no hard evidence. There is an ad for Bye Bye Biride but not from the UK, from France. That ad says 70mm but I think we all know ads said many things that were not necessarily true. http://in70mm.com/library/blow_up/year/1963/index.htm

 

[Brian Sharp]

A 70mm print of Taras Bulba certainly existed in the UK having screened it myself many years ago, Had a really good multi channel soundtrack!

 

[John Maher_289910]

Never a fan of 70MM blow ups.

 

[roxy1927]

Neither was I. The Music Hall showed a number of them and they did not look good. 35mm would have looked better.

 

[Joe Caps]

Its amazing that radio city did not have 70mm until airport/

 

[roxy1927]

All the genuine 70mm of that period played roadshow. Also for some reason the head projection was against it. I have no idea why. Anyway Hunter told them they would not get the film if they refused a Todd AO print. It was a wonderful presentation and looked great at the Hall. I saw it the evening of St Pats Day and it was very crowded. Rare for the Music Hall in the 70's.