how the west was won main title.

[AllaN01Bear]

[keithbvadu2]

1. A great movie. A jobs program for movie stars.

[Ocelot II]

3. Saw that in Cinerama when it first came out -

I was just a kid, don't remember much about it except for that theme music.

[PCIntern]

4. So did I at the Boyd Theater in Philly

Had a book-program which got thrown out. Probably has some value now.

[Ocelot II]

7. I saw it at this theater:

It was SO mid-century, lots of orange. How The West Was Won was one of the first 70mm Cinerama movies they showed. It was torn down in 1992 and an Olive Garden restaurant was built on the site. That's not there any more, either.

[yonder]

9. That looks like the Cooper in Denver where I first saw it.

Is it? I haven't lived there in many decades, but I know it was torn down.

I saw Grimms Fairy Tales, 2001 Space Odyssey and a few others at that Cooper.

[Ocelot II]

10. This one was in suburban Minneapolis. I think there were three Coopers,

all of them gone now.

[yonder]

11. Thanks I didn't know there were others.

It seems all those movies they picked up enjoyed very long runs of +/- a year. Dont know if that was a Cooper or Cinerama thing.

[Ocelot II]

12. The third one was in Omaha.

In 1961 and 1962, the Cooper Foundation was instrumental in presenting Cinerama films and film production by building three theaters to showcase the three-projector Cinerama format. There were three of these, the so-called "Golden Triangle" in Denver, Colorado, St. Louis Park, Minnesota (a Minneapolis suburb), and Omaha, Nebraska.

Although existing theaters had been adapted to show Cinerama films, The Cooper Foundation designed and built three near-identical circular "super-Cinerama" theaters. They were considered the finest venues to view Cinerama films. The theaters were designed by architect Richard L. Crowther of Denver, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. The original blueprints for the theater are in the Denver Public Library Special Collections Department.

Crowther designed each element of the theaters to enhance the Cinerama experience. The circular design took advantage of the discovery that patrons, if left to their own devices, would seat themselves in an oval pattern. The exterior circular shape served as a constant reminder to passing motorists that this was a Cinerama theater. The design included a cylindrical shape and a flat roof.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_Foundation

[Mister Ed]

15. Last thing I saw at the Minneapolis Cooper before it was torn down...

...was a director's cut of "Lawrence of Arabia." What a marvel to see it in Panavision. They truly don't make 'em like that anymore.

[Hotler]

13. At the Cooper in Denver when I was a kid with the folks. It was a family place,

kind of fancy, we dressed up for it. I was under age and asked to go see the original Roller Ball there. That movie was dark and weird.

[ZoltarSpeaks]

14. That was a great theater

I worked at Honeywell in the Park Place building right behind that theater. A bunch of us disappeared from the office for a couple hours one afternoon to catch some opening in lovely air conditioned comfort.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

5. So did I! And neither do I, LOL!

[bahboo]

6. that is some classic shit....

[hedda_foil]

8. Wow! And every one of those (how many?) stunts was real.

No green screens. Nothing digital. No AI.

It may be all about the triumph of the white man, but that opening sequence is still as thrilling as it was intended way back when I first saw it in Cinerama (too).