Cinerama INC NEW YORK Vintage common stock Certificate 1971 movie company s2

Description

this item is a cancelled vintage stock certificate.
great for framing or collecting
Cinerama
is a
widescreen
process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized
35mm
projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen, subtending 146° of arc.
[
clarification needed
]
The trademarked process was marketed by the Cinerama corporation. It was the first of a number of novel processes introduced during the 1950s, when the movie industry was reacting to competition from television. Cinerama was presented to the public as a theatrical event, with reserved seating and printed programs, and audience members often dressed in their best attire for the evening.
Venues
Edit
Although existing theatres were adapted to show Cinerama films, in 1961 and 1962 the non-profit
Cooper Foundation
of
Lincoln, Nebraska
, designed and built three near-identical circular "super-Cinerama" theaters in
Denver, Colorado
;
St. Louis Park, Minnesota
(a
Minneapolis
suburb); and
Omaha, Nebraska
. They were considered the finest venues in which to view Cinerama films. The theaters were designed by architect
Richard L. Crowther
of Denver, a
Fellow
of the
American Institute of Architects
.
The first such theater, the Cooper Theater,
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built in Denver, featured a 146-degree louvered screen (measuring 105 feet by 35 feet), 814 seats, courtesy lounges on the sides of the theatre for relaxation during intermission (including concessions and smoking facilities), and a ceiling which routed air and heating through small vent slots in order to inhibit noise from the building's ventilation equipment.
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It was demolished in 1994 to make way for a
Barnes & Noble
bookstore.
The second, also called the Cooper Theater,
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was built in St. Louis Park at 5755 Wayzata Boulevard. The last film presented there was
Dances with Wolves
in January 1991, and at that time the Cooper was considered the "flagship" in the
Plitt theatre chain
. Efforts were made to preserve the theatre, but at the time it did not qualify for national or state historical landmark status (as it was not more than fifty years old) nor were there local preservation laws. It was torn down in 1992. An office complex with a
TGI Friday's
on the west end of the property is there today.
The third super-Cinerama, the
Indian Hills Theater
,
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was built in
Omaha, Nebraska
. It closed on September 28, 2000 as a result of the bankruptcy of
Carmike Cinemas
and the final film presented was the rap music-drama Turn It Up. The theater was demolished on August 20, 2001.
A fourth, the Kachina Cinerama Theater, was built in Scottsdale, Arizona by Harry L. Nace Theatres on Scottsdale Road and opened on November 10, 1960. It seated 600 people. It later became a Harkins theater, then closed in 1989 to make way for the Scottsdale Galleria.
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