I saw 2001 at the Windsor Cinerama in Houston in October of 1968. I do not
know exactly how long the run was, but it was several months. My guess
is that it was replaced with Oliver! which I saw there on the deep curved
screen in the spring or summer of 1969. Later 2001 showed up in Austin at the
only 70mm house in Austin at that time, Trans Texas' Americana. This was a
70mm Panavision print, not Cinerama..
2001 defies normal release patterns because it stuck around for almost two
years being shown here and there, and at midnight shows. I suspect that it
had begun to wind down its 70mm run either Cinerama or Panavision 70 by the end
of 1969 or maybe the beginning of 1970. The first real
re-release was in 1974.
Planet of the Apes was a normal 35mm release, and it may have had a longer run
in some venues, but it was around Austin for maybe a couple of
weeks, which was not unusual for Austin at that time.
Incidentally, MovieArt has one copy of the undated starchild poster that is
regarded as the first printing, original poster for that style. The few of
these that I have seen or heard of were all rolled, as is this one. We had two
copies and sold one of those at Sothebys some years ago.
Kirby
Kirby McDaniel
MovieArt Original Film Posters
P.O. Box 4419
Austin TX 78765-4419
512 479 6680 www.movieart.net
mobile 512 589 5112
On Mar 20, 2010, at 9:31 PM, channinglylethomson wrote:
> I saw the film 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY at the Golden Gate Cinerama in San
> Francisco in the Summer of '68. As Roland mentioned earlier, the film played
> there for 73 weeks. The theatre had Cinerama on the main floor. The
> balcony, at that time, had been converted to 70MM and was showing KRAKATOA
> EAST OF JAVA the next year (1969) when 2001 was still playing in the big
> house downstairs.
>
> I also saw 2001 at the Kachina Cinerama Theatre in Scottsdale, AZ (suburb of
> Phoenix) in later in 1968. Roland has informed me that it played there for
> 25 weeks. The hippie crowd loved the fact that there was an intermission.
> They would go outside, smoke pot, and then come in to enjoy the "star gate"
> psychedelic sequence in the second half. This was pretty much a movie-going
> ritual with that film! The Kachina was an important theatre in Phoenix --
> the only Cinerama Theatre and also offering reserved seats, 70MM, 6 track
> stereo sound, smoking loge with ash trays, etc. 2001 was the last of the big
> "roadshow" movies that played hard ticket for pretty long runs in American
> movie theatres. After this, movies like HELLO DOLLY, STAR, & DOCTOR
> DOOLITTLE tried the same marketing approach and they all died at the box
> office. That this film played 25 weeks in Phoenix (not a particularly arty
> or intellectual city) indicates that the film really was a pretty big hit or
> it woul!
dn't have had such an incredibly long run. 73 weeks in SF was astounding at
that time!
>
> As to PLANET OF THE APES -- that was a regular release film that would
> probably have been shown as a double bill. I saw it the first week a the
> Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto. The film was popular, but certainly wouldn't
> have had more than a few weeks run at the time.
>
> Kirby, your thoughts?
>
> Channing thomson
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