I remember seeing Grand Prix at the Seattle Cinerama in '67. Wow! A little blurry at the extreme edges during dialogue, but amazing race sequences. Oh, the sound!

So nice to see the tabs open slowly and evenly, a thing of the past, the young have probably never seen.

@MichaelBeeny

3 жыл бұрын

@Kayden Ishaan Why do you keep spamming everyone with this crap, your right no one cares.

I really neeed a bucket list....To see a cinerama film in TRUE cinerama

Wow!! I went to The ABC Cinema in Edinburgh in 1968 to see 2001-A Space Odyssey in Cinerama. EPIC We also had the Casino Cinerama in Soho London.I'd almost get a plane ticket to Seattle to visit this cinema. Impressed!!!

Just got seats fourth row for interstellar 70mm films festival

Answer to 2 year old question from below: Reason front screen was destroyed was that after the Cinerama Run, a brand new screen was installed. As you can imagine, the front screen takes a beating during a conversion. Periodically, that screen has to be replaced. And yes, this is Seattle Martin Cinerama.

Curtains gave a lovely warm ambience.

Wow! Congratulations for the great "tour the force"!

@robertgraziano9831

8 жыл бұрын

Great video. God I miss CINERAMA.

@johnspooner1403

6 жыл бұрын

Padma Karmann - "Tour de Force" actually. It's french. I'll translate as "Tower of Power", but i'm probably wrong. But the french is correct.

Interesting! We don't see movie theaters with curtains anymore!

@Rlotpir1972

5 жыл бұрын

I always ask for what's behind curtain #1.

@pklongutoobe

4 жыл бұрын

Really? Most do in the UK

@aussiejohn5835

4 жыл бұрын

@@pklongutoobe Cinemas in Australia generally are multiplexes with many screens and no curtains. A handful of single screen Cinemas do exist and some have curtains but are usually in the open position. Gone are the days of the opening curtain and the national anthem preceded of course by the music and dimming of the lights. And the huge Cinerama screen would be revealed and the audience was transported into the world of cinema. Sorry I got carried away with my memories.

@mosesjones5376

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they are very rare. The only theater I can think of that has curtains for a screen that is near me is Harkins Theatres "Cine" screens.

Awesome :)

Excellent

Thanks for this! I always wondered how they did the switch... I assume this is the Seattle Cinerama?

@alishadiamond7394

4 жыл бұрын

yup, seattle it is:)

I hope it re-opens soon

COOL...

We can still experience Cinerama flicks using Curved TV's invented 2 yrs. ago...

@jacktravis8496

3 жыл бұрын

lol

That is very cool. After falling off my roof, I sure wouldn't want the job up on the catwalk. No. Way. It's interesting to watch with the speed slowed way down. I was quite surprised when they moved the panels with the speaker enclosures to see how thin they appeared. Seems hardly the depth necessary to harbor speaker cabinets. Is the crew a contracted A/V company, or employees of the theater chain and fly in to do screen change overs? Looks to be a pretty specific gig and you better know what you're doing. I do think it's a shame they just ripped the screen apart to take it down.

the screen is crazy big sometimes its rare!

Can anyone tell me why they destroyed the front screen? I thought the whole thing about the Martin theatre was that they use the flatter front screen for standard releases and the deep cinerama louvered screen for three strip cinerama replays. I'm baffled.

@mjj5276

3 жыл бұрын

That new screen ain't going anywhere so the old one was useless.

Beautiful screen. But I prefer an Austrian curtain more :D

Bigger screen, always a good thing.

Sweet.

@prabhushivali9318

6 жыл бұрын

now Cinerama India pvt ltd is closed since 2006.

Nice

So does cinerama always show Imax movies??

@criticalcerebral

Жыл бұрын

The IMAX aspect ratio has too much vertical image for this screen. 16:9 or 4:3 ratio screen is the ideal IMAX screen.

NICE!

The first screen obviously looked better. The new one overall looked 'rougher.'

@robabiera733

2 жыл бұрын

That may be due to the fact that the Cinerama screen is actually composed of hundreds of individual strips rather than one continuous screen. It's constructed this way to minimize light reflecting from one side of the screen to the other.

@rogerwhite95

2 жыл бұрын

@@robabiera733 Thank you for the info!

Curtains only keep their fire retardant rating for about 10 years then they have to be replaced and they are very expensive

which cinema /city/location is this

@whatsina1

Жыл бұрын

Seattle. But closed currently. (Not demolished though). It is one of the three cineramas in world that can still screen three strip cinerama format...which it used to about once a year...until recently. The other two are Hollywood Dome and Bradford/UK Pictureville. The Hollywood one was retrofitted for three strip after initially showing only 70mm prints on deep screen.

Interesting. Curtains were so classy but now these theaters are all automated and they don't want to deal with them.

I thought that the silver screen was the Cinerama .It was curved and large.

@wilsjane

7 жыл бұрын

The silver screen was too directional for Cinerama and would have produced an uneven light coverage for anyone sitting at the sides of the theatre. Matt white gave much better coverage, but required much more light from the projectors. This was not normally a problem, since the projection was either from 3 projectors or 70mm. In addition, lamps were produced that used a rotating positive carbon and ran at up to 160 amps.

@michaelmcgee8543

7 жыл бұрын

Isn't that funny I'm not bother by the color of the color of the screen.white or silver .Today 3d showings are d.cp I don't think a silver screen is needed .I do say the the silver screen deepens the colors than a white screen

@wilsjane

7 жыл бұрын

Silver screens were developed in the early days of Cinemascope. When Fox introduced the format, they had ideas that cinemas would replace the projection equipment and add the reproducers for 4 track magnetic sound. However the cinema chains only equipped a few theatres with the sound equipment. The cost of stripeing the release prints with the magnetic tracks was prohibitive, so the optical soundtrack was put back, reducing the aspect ratio from 1:2.55 to 1:2.35. while maintaining the offset that was a problem with the projectors having a different optical centre between ratios. In larger theatres, the projectors struggled to illuminate the larger screens to the industry standard of 14 foot lamberts, so prints were made lighter to compensate and the definition was compromised. In the 1950s half the audience smoked throughout the film, leaving heavy tar deposits on the screen and the problem with light resulted in the screens having to be replaced at least once a year. The screen manufacturers came up with the silver coating that was sprayed in after the screen was hung and could be recoated 3 times (sometimes more, but this blocked the sound perforations). However silver screens were very directional and no one wanted to sit in the side seats. Pearlux was the next innovation and was something of a compromise. Despite the fact that it could not be recoated, it almost became the industry standard, but is still inferior to matt white.

@martynbutlerOBE

5 жыл бұрын

Much deeper curve on the Cinerama screen, if it was silvered it would throw light back at the opposite side of the screen The Cinerama screen is also vertically louvred like a Venetian blind on its side, so each strip is directed back to the audience

Nice to see this video of the Seattle Martin Cinerama. Too bad about the irritating music.

@whatsina1

Жыл бұрын

Music was a total mismatch for sure...Like some phone waiting system music.

screen channels are low they should be mid height of the screen

Manvith.H

So, so when is this cinema gonna be demolished into rubble to make way for new homes for the homeless as cinema is non-essential.

@jacktravis8496

3 жыл бұрын

Don't say that, but the future doesn't look good. What kind of billionaire doesn't have a fucking trust setup to run this place into eternity. Major oversite on Paul Allen's legacy.

@canweshoot

2 жыл бұрын

Good grief!