“Almost like a real web
site”
|
IN7OMM.COM
• Search |
Contact
• News |
e-News |
• Rumour Mill |
Stories
• Foreign Language
• in70mm.com auf Deutsch
WHAT'S ON IN 7OMM?
7OMM FESTIVAL
• Todd-AO Festival
• KRRR! 7OMM Seminar
• GIFF 70, Gentofte
• Oslo 7OMM Festival
• Widescreen Weekend
TODD-AO
• Premiere |
Films
• People |
Equipment
• Library |
Cinemas
• Todd-AO Projector
• Distortion Correcting
PANAVISION
• Ultra Panavision
70
• Super Panavision
70
|
|
VISION, SCOPE & RAMA
1926
Natural Vision
1929 Grandeur
1930 Magnifilm
1930 Realife
1930 Vitascope
1952 Cinerama
1953
CinemaScope
1955 Todd-AO
1955 Circle Vision
360
1956
CinemaScope 55
1957 Ultra
Panavision 70
1958 Cinemiracle
1958 Kinopanorama
1959 Super
Panavision 70
1959 Super Technirama 70
1960 Smell-O-Vision
1961 Sovscope
70
1962
Cinerama 360
1962 MCS-70
1963 70mm Blow Up
1963 Circarama
1963 Circlorama
1966 Dimension 150
1966
Stereo-70
1967 DEFA 70
1967 Pik-A-Movie
1970 IMAX / Omnimax
1974 Cinema
180
1974 SENSURROUND
1976 Dolby Stereo
1984 Showscan
1984 Swissorama
1986 iWERKS
1989 ARRI 765
1990 CDS
1994 DTS / Datasat
2001
Super Dimension 70
2018 Magellan 65
•
Various Large format
| 70mm to 3-strip |
3-strip to 70mm |
Specialty Large Format |
Special Effects in 65mm |
ARC-120 |
Super Dimension 70
| Early Large Format
• 7OMM Premiere in
Chronological Order
7OMM FILM & CINEMA
• Australia |
Brazil
• Canada |
Denmark
• England |
France
• Germany |
Iran
• Mexico |
Norway
• Sweden |
Turkey
• USA
LIBRARY
• 7OMM Projectors
• People |
Eulogy
• 65mm/70mm Workshop
• The 7OMM Newsletter
• Back issue |
PDF
• Academy of the WSW
7OMM NEWS
• 2026 | 2025 | 2024
• 2023 |
2022 |
2021
• 2020 |
2019 |
2018
• 2017 |
2016 |
2015
• 2014 |
2013 |
2012
• 2011 |
2010 | 2009
• 2008 | 2007 |
2006
• 2005 | 2004 |
2003
• 2002 |
2001 |
2000
• 1999 |
1998 |
1997
• 1996 |
1995 |
1994
|
in70mm.com Mission:
• To record the history of the large format movies and the 70mm cinemas
as remembered by the people who worked with the films. Both during
making and during running the films in projection rooms and as the
audience, looking at the curved screen.
•
in70mm.com, a unique internet based magazine, with articles about 70mm
cinemas, 70mm people, 70mm films, 70mm sound, 70mm film credits, 70mm
history and 70mm technology. Readers and fans of 70mm are always welcome
to contribute.
•
Disclaimer |
Updates
• Support us
• Testimonials
• Table of Content
|
|
|
Extracts and longer
parts of in70mm.com may be reprinted with the written permission from
the editor.
Copyright © 1800 - 2070. All rights reserved.
Visit biografmuseet.dk about Danish cinemas
|
| |
70mm Presentations in Champaign
A Chronology of 70mm Large Format Exhibition, 1980-Present |
Read more at
in70mm.com The 70mm Newsletter
|
Compiled by:
Michael Coate |
Date:
27.05.2023 |
What follows is a work-in-progress chronology
of 70mm six-track stereophonic sound feature-film presentations in the
Champaign-Urbana region of Illinois, USA.
The focus of this work is 5-perf 70mm feature films and the cinemas in which
they were exhibited. Short subjects, 8-perf and 15-perf (IMAX, Iwerks, etc.)
and Special Venue presentations have not been included.
The emphasis here is on the titles that received publicly-promoted,
commercial exhibition in 70mm and their playdates. To facilitate an
easy-to-reference title- and date-based layout, no details have been
provided pertaining to the brand of 70mm (i.e. Todd-AO, Super Panavision,
Ultra Panavision, Cinerama, D-150, etc.) or technical particulars of each
presentation (i.e. O-neg source, inter-neg source, blow-up, pillarboxed,
letterboxed, Dolby A, Dolby SR, five screen channels vs. three, baby boom,
split surround, digital sound, etc.).
Part 1: The 70mm-Equipped Cinemas
CHAMPAIGN
Virginia
SAVOY
Savoy 10 / Savoy 14 (two screens equipped with 70mm)
An overview of each cinema will be provided in a forthcoming revision.
Part 2: The 70mm Presentations
Opening date YYYY-MM-DD
TITLE
cinema (duration in weeks) [notes]
1980-05-21
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
Virginia (20)
1981-05-08
SLEEPING BEAUTY
Virginia (2)
1982-10-08
TRON
Virginia (2)
1982-10-22
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Virginia (1)
1983-08-27
LETS SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER
Virginia [midnight]
1983-09-30
BRAINSTORM
Virginia (5)
1984-02-17
THE RIGHT STUFF
Virginia (7)
1984-06-01
STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
Virginia (6)
1984-12-07
2010
Virginia (7)
1989-09-29
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
Virginia (3)
1990-06-15
DICK TRACY
Virginia (9)
1997-03-13
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Virginia [Cyberfest]
1999-04-25
TRON
Virginia [EbertFest] (35mm substitution)
2000-04-30
OKLAHOMA!
Virginia [EbertFest]
2001-04-25
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Virginia [EbertFest]
2002-04-24
PATTON
Virginia [EbertFest]
2003-04-23
THE RIGHT STUFF
Virginia [EbertFest] (35mm substitution)
2004-04-21
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
Virginia [EbertFest]
2005-04-20
PLAYTIME
Virginia [EbertFest]
2006-04-26
MY FAIR LADY
Virginia [EbertFest]
2008-04-23
HAMLET
Virginia [EbertFest]
2009-04-26
BARAKA
Virginia [EbertFest]
2010-04-21
PINK FLOYD: THE WALL
Virginia [EbertFest] (35mm substitution)
2010-04-22
APOCALYPSE NOW
Virginia [EbertFest] (35mm REDUX substitution)
2018-04-19
INTERSTELLAR
Virginia [EbertFest]
2018-08-20
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Virginia (1) [50th anniversary
re-issue]
2020-04-18
VERTIGO
Virginia [EbertFest] (canceled)
Q&A/post-screening-discussion guests for the 1997 screening of 2001: A SPACE
ODYSSEY were actor Gary Lockwood and 2001: Filming the Future author Piers
Bizony. Event was hosted by film critic and University of Illinois alum
Roger Ebert and served as a belated birthday celebration for HAL9000 who in
the film was said to have been born in Urbana, Illinois in 1992 (the locale
of the University of Illinois).
Q&A/post-screening-discussion guests for the EbertFest screenings were
.
TRON: Steven Lisberger and David Warner
OKLAHOMA!: Tim Zinnemann
2001: Keir Dullea, Frederick Ordway and (by telephone) Sir Arthur C. Clarke
PATTON: Dr. Richard Vetter
THE RIGHT STUFF: Veronica Cartwright, Donald Moffat and Scott Wilson
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA: Robert A. Harris and Anne V. Coates
PLAYTIME: Jonathan Rosenbaum
MY FAIR LADY: Marni Nixon, Robert A. Harris and Jim Katz
HAMLET: Timothy Spall and Rufus Sewell
BARAKA: Mark Magidson and Ron Fricke
APOCALYPSE NOW: Walter Murch
INTERSTELLAR: Professor Miguel Alcubierre and Brand Fortner
Note that some of the titles included in this chronology may have been
presented in 35mm during the latter week(s) of their engagement due to
contractual terms or print damage (and the distributors unwillingness to
supply a 70mm replacement print) or because the booking was moved to a
non-70mm-equipped auditorium within a multiplex. As well, the reverse may
have been true in some cases whereas a booking began with a 35mm print
because the lab was unable to complete the 70mm print order in time for an
opening-day delivery or the exhibitor negotiated a mid-run switch to 70mm.
In these cases, any 35mm portion of an engagement (or movement out of a
branded auditorium) has been included in the duration figure.
References: Various issues of the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette and The
Daily Illini, plus projection and sound system trade advertisements and
installation records.
Special Thanks: Champaign County Historical Archives, Steve Kraus and Tim
McGlynn.
Dedicated to Roger Ebert, 1942-2013
If you believe this article contains any errors or omissions, please
consider emailing the
author or editor.
|
More in 70mm reading:
70mm Cinemas in North America
in70mm.com's
list of films blown up to 70mm
70mm
Engagements by Title
35mm to
70mm Engagements by Year
Large Format 7OMM
Engagements
Month by
month premiere list of wide gauge and 3-strip films
Chronological premiere list of major 70mm films
70mm Blow Up
List
Dolby
Stereo
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Go to
70mm Presentations in
Champaign |
|
Go: back - top -
back issues -
news index Updated
21-01-24 |
|
|