Cinerama Theatre Restoration

Seattle, WA 1999

ACE installed 3 vintage Cinerama projectors in 1999.

The following pictures show installation and testing from November 1 through final testing and press screening November 11.

Installation involved conversion from the standard presentation screen to the 32 foot high by 91 feet wide, deep curve Cinerama screen. This process took the stage crew about 11 hours.

Joe Boczki working under the watchful eye of John Harvey.

Joel Miller and Scott Kimber of ACE doing final alignments to the equipment before testing.

The alignment of the three projectors on the screen using rare Cinerama test film.

These pictures were taken during the press screening, featuring restored test footage of Cinerama film. The three panel images are 32’ high and 91’ wide.

The images are from restored footage of the 1963 classic, “ How The West Was Won”. Above are Carl Malden and Agnes Moorhead, waiting to board a ferry on the Erie Canal.

Jeff Graves from Vulcan and Otto Lang, director of the Cinerama film “Search for Paradise”.

Scott Kimber and Rick Newton of American Cinema Equipment with Otto Lang.

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