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Yes, very true. I would always sit in the 4th or 5th row orchestra, dead center. Of course, being 15 years old when The Princess theatre in Honolulu HI. was converted to 3 strip Cinerama in 1958, I always went to the matinee showings and getting that seat was very easy. To this day in my...

That's sure stretching the point..... One private screen and two wannabe Cinerama drive ins. The only one drive in I could find any record of ran 3 strip Cinerama for a grand total of 6 weeks with the projectors mounted in a van. On a double bill with "McClintock" no less. No Cinerama...

No but it certainly was part of the experience. There wasn't a 3 strip Cinerama theatre anywhere in the world that didn't have a curtain (and adjustable masking made of the same material as the main curtain that covered the bare screen at the top of the screen during the flat prologue). A...

Nah, that seating was for the kids and non movie use. Here's a view showing the seating and the back wall.

No masking. It's not really needed with a JVC projector, since blacks are so good. I do use a fixed anamorphic HE lens (Isco Cinema DLP 1.5x) and I have presets defined in both Zoom Player and J River for 1.77, 1.85, 2.0, 2.20, 2.40, 2.55, 2.76, and 2.85. About 10 years ago, I retired and...

Yes, JVC RS3100, 53" x 144" 1.0 gain screen.

BTW, I watched the "flat" 2.85:1 version upscaled to 4K by MadVR since I have a 2.76:1 curved screen.

Watched it tonight. Got 30 minutes into the movie before I actually saw any sign of a join line. (it's in the dancing princess segment) My only gripe is why the majority of video releases always manage to mess up the intermission handling. How difficult is it to do it the same way it was...

No, sorry. I only lived in Minneapolis for a couple of years. My primary employment was with IBM (I've Been Moved) and the projectionist gigs were all part time. No way to earn a good living as a projectionist.... No benefits, not the greatest pay, etc. Fortunately, this did give me...

Yep, I remember running a 70mm re-release of "The Ten Commandments" there back in 1990 or so. The date is fuzzy, but the challenge of keeping the VistaVision image framed accurately certainly is not when the aperture plate somewhat resembles a bow tie.

When I first worked there, they were still running a two projector reel to reel changeover setup. They subsequently converted to a platter system and had to pull out the Ashcraft carbon arcs and replace them with Xenon. That resulted in a major reduction of screen brightness. The platters...

Pretty sure it was the Denver location, but it could have been the St Louis Park location. I worked as a projectionist in both of those locations many years ago.

Hell, most modern theatres can't even offer a properly masked screen, much less the amenities that used to be a part of a first class movie-going experience.

Here is another depiction with a theatre that was designed and built specifically for 3 strip Cinerama and later modified to single strip. This shot was taken from the just behind the last row of main floor seating, rather than the balcony.

Terrible, but It's not the curve, it's because you can only use part of the CIH screen, as the image has to be projected at 1.78:1.

Depends on whether you have a CIH 2.40:1 or greater AR screen or a 16x9 screen: Letterbox for CIH. Smilebox (if you don't mind everything at the extreme sides of the image being tall and skinny) for a 16x9 screen. That said, both formats are in the set, so you can try them both and make the...