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From: ebm@ingres.berkeley.edu.ARPA (Eli Messinger)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: 2001 question
Message-ID: <211@ingres.berkeley.edu.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 17:02:53 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  6 17:02:53 1986
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Keywords: Bluest Skies You've Ever Seen, Cinerama Theater

In article <1357@mtuxo.UUCP> nobi@mtuxo.UUCP (m.juliar) writes:
>Re: "2001" in Cinerama.
>
>2001 was made and shown in Cinerama when it was released in 
>Spring 1968.  However, it did not use the old 3-projector
>technique to throw the image on the screen.  It used a single
>projector with a special lens, probably a very wide anamorphic
>one, to throw the image at a screen that was surely not 180
>degrees, or even 90 degrees.  I would guess it was under 45 degrees.
>I doubt anyone has the equipment or auditorium to project the
>film in its original mode today for the public.

Well, the Cinerama theater in Seattle certainly has the auditorium
and curved screen to show Cinerama films.  Whether or not they still
have the special lenses around is another question.

BTW, as Bill Rabkin once wrote in the University of Washington `Daily',
(to paraphrase) "When God sees a film in Seattle, he sees it at the
Cinerama."

... gt