Cinerama Dome Projection Booth Visit screening "How the West Was Won" 

Paul Allen and Bill Gates watched many films at the Seattle Cinerama theatre in the 1970’s. Paul purchased the theatre in 1997 and restored three panel film projection there, along with funding the restoration of HTWWW and TIC negatives in conjunction with Pacific Theatres (owner of Cinerama trademark) and Dave Strohmaier. From those negatives two new prints of both features were struck - one each for The Dome and Seattle Cinerama. Many public screenings of those two features occurred at both theatres for several years.

@@mirrophonic Unfortunately, after Paul's death, the estate had no interest and keeping the Cinerama cinema open.

NYC had The Warner Cinerama and The Lowes State Cinerama, both destroyed now.

robert graziano Wish I could have experienced those!

@@richin2123 You probably know most cinerama movies are on bluray in "smilebox" and played on a big screen are look pretty good.RU-vid home cinerama screen.

robert graziano Yep! Got ‘em all!

@@richin2123 Saw This is Cinerama with my grade8 class 62 years ago.My teeth shook during that famous roller coaster scene.....way before subwoofers!

Its not easy and the original films never looked good. This was a restoration, with modern stocks so it was a lot better than it would have been during original release. All be it with probably less projection issues.

Yep, spot on! It’s just a gimmick in the long run. They never made a great movie using Cinerama.

Nope, so sad! Why can't they first make good scripts! lol

@@CinemaRepository How the West Was Won is an incredibly good movie. It explains that in 150 years, the west went from a desolate territory with some primitive tribes killing each other into what we have today. I was born in the foothills of the Rockies and now live in Las Vegas.

The three projector process was replaced with Ultra Panavision 70 widescreen process (which yielded a similar 2.76 aspect ratio to the original Cinerama, although it did not simulate the 146-degree field of view.) Optically "rectified" prints and special lenses were used to project the 70 mm prints onto the curved screen. The films shot in Ultra Panavision for single lens Cinerama presentation included It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).

It is a cool experience. Very unique for its day. I wish people cared about the cinema like that today.

They have a little timing gear that comes off the drive shaft of the motor, which then synchronizes with the other timing shafts.

Originally, selsyn sync motors were installed on all three projectors plus sound dubber. When you applied 120v power to the selsyn circuit, all 4 motors rotate slightly and lock together. The selsyn’s job was to hold the rotation exact despite slight speed variations of each projector drive motor. If one motor was a little too fast, the excess speed is absorbed into the 4 motor network, pulling the other 3 motors in sync. Also, it IS possible to manually roll a projector while locked. However, it takes a lot of strength to do so because you are actually rolling all 4 machines together.

Image steadiness on Baker also leaves a lot to be desired... (And it seems that the ABLE projector / mirror / lens has a bit too low Color Temp. compared to B and C projector)

Sure, I can send you the raw footage if you want. Send me an e-mail tye1138@mac.com and lets chat.

It’s a historic landmark, it won’t be demolished

Andy Summers : I hope never!!

just have the homeless move in to your home since it`s not presently being used for cinerama, IDIOT