I guess Cinerama had to continue on some how...

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Many old movie people compare the semi new SCREEN X system to CINERAMA.. I still liked the Cinerama curved screen with curtains better the Screen X.

These new Screen X installs are put in smaller pre existing auditoriums and they are not that effective. Only certain parts of the film have the side wall projectors lit. No curve to the side image and many of the SX images look digital extended plus distorted.

If Screen X is put into a new theatre they can do the white side walls better and mount the surround speakers tilting down from the ceiling.

I was so glad I got to see three projector Cinerama in many theatres over the years. Some of the larger theatres in big cities had larger Cinerama curved screen .The 7 channel mag sound was great to hear in the early days of stereophonic sound in a cinema.

Now in Hollywood CA there are 2 old Cinerama theatres still closed up. Time to re open them, show the old Cinerama films for the tourists and project classic 70mm roadshows on the giant curved screen.

IMAX & Screen X just don't bring back the excitement that Cinerama had for me.

I feel lucky to have gotten to see it in Dayton when John Harvey set his system.up at the New Neon Theater. Was definately worth the drive... Growing up in Suburban Chicago, we had two D-150 locations, and one single strip Cinerama Theater, The Cinestage.. Chicago originally had two three strip theaters which by the time I went to them had installed flat sheets in their place.

[Randy Stankey]

Years ago, there was a beer delivery guy who would sling two 1/2 kegs, one over each shoulder, and walk up a half-flight of steps then put them down, one at a time, in the beer cooler in my father's bar.

This was back in the days when beer came in metal barrels with two-prong taps instead of the Sankey D-tap kegs that have handles on them like are universal, nowadays. Even today, I'd have trouble dead lifting one of those things, let alone slinging it over my shoulder!

He made his delivery, brought the invoice to the bartender for signature and, then, my dad would pour him a pony glass of beer. He'd slug it down and be on his way.

I remember the guy's nickname was Rocky and, to say that he was built like Stallone would have been an understatement!
Nobody would even DARE to give Rocky any shit!

[Frank Cox]

When Pepsi still did premix the delivery guys always carried in two of the five gallon tanks at a time, one in each hand.

I could only manage to carry one at a time using both hands.

One day the driver showed up with a helper. Absolutely the biggest man I've ever seen, anywhere.

He carried three tanks in each hand, so he had six on each trip.

That was the fastest Pepsi delivery I've ever had.

I don't know what happened to that guy, though. He only came here that one time and I've never seen him again.

[Randy Stankey]

Three projector Cinerama always seemed overly complicated to me.

Well, Cinerama played in the days when people actually worked for a living and performing hard tasks was considered part of your job.

One time, shortly before I left Cinemark, I took a new kid down to the loading dock to pick up some film cans that had just been delivered. I picked up two of the ones that looked heaviest and pointed to the other two and said, "Grab those, will ya'?" He picked up one of the cans and complained because it was too heavy. I said, "Well, this is your job! This is what you're getting paid to do!"

I might have offered him a two-wheeled dolly but, given his attitude, I just picked up all four cans and carried them "bellboy style" up the stairs, by myself. That was his first and last day working in the booth. God forbid they would have been 70mm!!!

I'd give my right arm if I could go back in time and work in a Cinerama booth! I'd figure out a way to carry those heavy reels around with only one arm, too!

[Harold Hallikainen]

Three projector Cinerama always seemed overly complicated to me. I think VistaVisipn was a very solution to the wide aspect ratio problem.

[Terry Monohan]

Many old movie people compare the semi new SCREEN X system to CINERAMA.. I still liked the Cinerama curved screen with curtains better the Screen X.

These new Screen X installs are put in smaller pre existing auditoriums and they are not that effective. Only certain parts of the film have the side wall projectors lit. No curve to the side image and many of the SX images look digital extended plus distorted.

If Screen X is put into a new theatre they can do the white side walls better and mount the surround speakers tilting down from the ceiling.

I was so glad I got to see three projector Cinerama in many theatres over the years. Some of the larger theatres in big cities had larger Cinerama curved screen .The 7 channel mag sound was great to hear in the early days of stereophonic sound in a cinema.

Now in Hollywood CA there are 2 old Cinerama theatres still closed up. Time to re open them, show the old Cinerama films for the tourists and project classic 70mm roadshows on the giant curved screen.

IMAX & Screen X just don't bring back the excitement that Cinerama had for me.

[Frank Angel]

Executives may think their privacy is secure; I would do them well to watch the scene just before INTERMISSION card in 2001! ?

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

From Cinerama To The Cone Of Silence...