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Author Topic: Largest Permanent Screen Ever Installed in a Everyday Working Theatre Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 09-11-2005 12:25 PM                     So what size and where is/was the largest 35 mm ever installed in an actual every day working indoor theatre? Same for drive-ins?  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 09-11-2005 07:36 PM                        Don't know, but I'll nominate Edward's Big Newport in Newport Beach, CA at 40x80', masked to 71' for 'scope. Another nomination, the Pacific ArcLight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, CA at 32x86'. Also, the Las Vegas Cinerama Dome screen was of similar size.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 09-12-2005 02:23 AM                     yeah, but aren't the Cinerama screens masked down for 4/35? -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Matias Bo Film Handler Posts: 3 From: Norrebro, Copenhagen, Denmark Registered: Feb 2005 posted 09-12-2005 03:14 AM                     In Copenhagen (Denmark) CinemaxX has a 81,3 x 34 feet screen in scope. //Matias  |  IP: Logged Thomas Hauerslev Master Film Handler Posts: 451 From: Copenhagen, Denmark Registered: Aug 2000 posted 09-12-2005 08:44 AM                        Large screens in Denmark through the ages CinemaxX #1 "only" comes in 6th The largest screen ever was in Oslo, Norway for "ID4"  |  IP: Logged Jonathan M. Crist Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 531 From: Hershey, PA, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 09-12-2005 08:51 AM                     The screen at the former Sinking Spring Drive In in Sinking Spring PA (outside of Reading) was 50 ft high by 100 foot wide.  |  IP: Logged Oliver Pasch Film Handler Posts: 53 From: Europe Registered: Jun 2002 posted 09-12-2005 10:46 AM                    Screen 1 at Royal Palast Berlin was (unfortunately it's been closed for about a year now) 32,80 x 13 meters which should be something like 107,6 x 42,6 feet. Pretty impressive beautiful theatre that has become a victim of nowadays multiplex-centers. Please visit: http://www.in70mm.com/news/2003/royal_palast/royal_berlin.htm Oliver PS.: Hi Matias - welcome to film-tech.com and best regards to Fisketorvet!  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 09-12-2005 12:19 PM                     quote: Aaron Sisemore but aren't the Cinerama screens masked down for 4/35 The Cinerama Dome used to be severely masked down before the theatre was remodeled. Now the 35mm image pretty much fills the entire width for scope (because they use Kinotons with glass reflectors, they are able to throw about 7k for 35mm).  |  IP: Logged Joseph L. Kleiman Master Film Handler Posts: 380 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Apr 2005 posted 09-12-2005 01:11 PM                     Marcus Theaters' Ultrascreens measure 32' x 75'. The world's largest permanent screen is a 1570 screen at the LG IMAX theater in Sydney: 97' x 117' The two Crown Oddessey theaters in Hartford CT and Jupiter FL each have a 50' x 70' screen. The theaters originally were designed for Maverick 1570 projectors from Advanced Image Systems (AIS). The Mavericks were replaced a few years back with Kinoton 435/570/870 projectors, however today they run 35mm almost exclusively. [ 09-12-2005, 02:53 PM: Message edited by: Joseph L. Kleiman ]  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-12-2005 09:08 PM                     I believe the IMAX in Jarkarta Indonisia is the largest screen manufactured  |  IP: Logged Joseph L. Kleiman Master Film Handler Posts: 380 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Apr 2005 posted 09-12-2005 09:40 PM                     The screen at the Theater IMAX Keong Emas (Golden Snail) in Jakarta is 70.5' x 96'.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 09-12-2005 10:19 PM                        At the Grandview Drive-In, we had a 100 x 42 foot screen. Screens larger than 60 x 25 feet are a challenge to light with 35mm projection. Need to start out with a properly curved gain screen, and optimize the other system parameters to have any hope of maintaining a uniformly lit image that conforms to standard SMPTE 196M for screen luminance of at least 12 footlamberts in the center.  |  IP: Logged Gilbert Travin Expert Film Handler Posts: 101 From: Villeurbanne / France Registered: Jan 2004 posted 09-13-2005 01:35 AM                        In Paris, Le Grand Rex (2750 seats) has a 24.90 m x 11.35 m giant screen (You can see photos here : http://www.silverscreens.com/rex.php The text is in english if you click on the appropriate button on the home page ! This cinema is designed for 70 mm operation (actualy, V8 projectors), but only 35 mm films are presented. The "old" screen, behind the curtains, is 16.90 m large. You have here a discussion on the silversceens forum (a post in french) about The Gaumont Palace (the greatest theater in France), demolished in 1971. The theater was equipped for Cinerama exhibitions (40 m wide screen) and 70 mm exhibitions : http://www.silverscreens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=294  |  IP: Logged Larry Shaw Expert Film Handler Posts: 238 From: Boston, MA, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 10-06-2005 06:38 PM                        The Marcus UltraScreens are of various sizes (source: I recently visited several to check on the recently installed Kinoton projectors that replaced other products). The Crown Oddessey theater in Hartford CT just requested a KA tech to visit and insure the Kinoton MP-75e 435/570/870 machine is ready to run 70 as they are about to begin same. The RCMH screen is around 100 ft wide. Larry  |  IP: Logged Joseph L. Kleiman Master Film Handler Posts: 380 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Apr 2005 posted 10-06-2005 10:40 PM                     Larry, About the Crown Odyssey, are they planning 5/70 or going back to showing 8/70? Jeremy Welman, who used to be in charge of those theaters left to run the IMAX program for National Amusements, so I thought Crown had discontinued 70mm. Joe  |  IP: Logged

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