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The turnaround began in 1997 when developers revealed plans to turn the Cinerama into a dinner theater or a rock-climbing club. This sparked a grassroots effort to save the historic venue, with local film buffs circulating petitions and issuing an urgent cry for help, which was answered by multi-billionaire Paul Allen, himself a movie fan and patron of the theater during its 1960s heyday.
On January 29, 2011, the annual Science Fiction Short Film Festival will be held at the Seattle Cinerama Theater in Seattle, Washington. 10 short films will screen in the first session 4:00pm – 6:00pm; 10 short films will screen in the second session 7:30pm – 9:30pm. An awards ceremony follows the second session. Short films presented
The preservation of the Cinerama Dome came at a time when most other surviving Cinerama theaters were being demolished. An example of this was the case of the Indian Hills Theater in Omaha, Nebraska , a round Cinerama theater boasting a 110-foot screen that was razed in 2001 to make room for a parking lot .
The Cinerama Dome and Arclight remained closed even after other theaters reopened after COVID shutdowns and Pacific Theatres filed for bankruptcy in 2021. The Decurion Corporation — the parent ...
Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) executive director Tom Mara has announced the company’s acquisition of the Seattle Cinerama Theater from the estate of late Microsoft co-founder Paul G ...
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Original Cinerama screen in the Bellevue Cinerama, Amsterdam (1965–2005) 17-meter curved screen removed in 1978 for 15-meter normal screen. [1]Cinerama is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen, subtending 146-degrees of arc.
In May 2014 it was announced that SIFF had purchased the Uptown Theater, and would be leasing and renovating the Egyptian Theater (abandoned roughly a year earlier by Landmark Theatres) from Seattle Central College. [13] In May 2023, SIFF announced it had acquired the Seattle Cinerama theater. [14] [15]