Boxoffice-August.11.1975

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DETROIT
^he annual meeting of th*; Youth Film
Forum, project of the Greater Detroit
Motion Picture and Television Council, was
held at 10 a.m. Wednesday (6) at the home
of Wilma Naimark. YFF chairman, in
Southfield. Luncheon followed the business
session. Edna Green is president of the
Greater Detroit Motion Picture and Television
Council.
The "Sound Off column of the Free
Press recently conducted a survey of moviegoers,
asking for response to the question:
"The scare movie "Jaws" will probably become
the biggest boxoffice draw of all time.
Do you pay to see a movie simply to be
frightened?" A whopping 62.1 per cent
voted "no" and some of the comments from
this segment were: "Those movies aren't
frightening. They're just plain disgusting"
. . . "If I want to be frightened. I can walk
'the streets of Detroit for free" ... "I saw it
because I heard it was a good movie" .
"After seeing 'Jaws' I'll never go in the
ocean, again" .
enough to be
afraid of in daily living."
Of those who responded. 37.9 f«r cent
voted "yes," commenting as follows: "I love
'being scared out of my wits" . . . "For the
cost of movies I want either sex or violence
in the story" . . . "It beats getting mugged"
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not hung up on being frightened
"A good horror
but it's iinteresting" . .
movie will take my mind completely off of
work, bills and other worries.
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"The Happy Hooker" (Cannon) opened
saturation engagement in area hardtops
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and underskyers Pictures"
"The 7lh Voyage of Sinbad" in Dynarama
opened in a number of walk-in theatres and
in the Fort George, Jolly Roger and Pontiac
drive-ins . . . MGM's "The Wind and the
Lion," released by United Artists, was held
over at the Quo Vadis, Showcase. Dearborn
and Tel-Ex cinemas . . . "Rollerball."
Norman Jewison film released by UA, is
playing an exclusive engagement at the
Northland.
"Deliver Us From Evil" is on the screen
at the Adams and Mercury, with "Johnny
Tough!" as the co-feature.
GCC Sets 'Meal 'n' Movie'
Tie-in With Ramada Inn
ST. LOUIS—General Cinema Corp.. in
a tie-in with Ramada Inn, is featuring "A
Meal 'n' Movie."
Patrons having dinner or lunch at the
Ramada Inn Westport receive a coupon for
any show Monday through Thursday at "In place of sound on film, which is the
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ture exhibits used multiple cameras and multiple
projectors to achieve vastness. Cinerama
(not shown at E.xpo "67) initially used
three cameras and three projectors. Some
projection systems used as many as a dozen
cameras, all carefully synchronized. "Our
idea was to use one camera.' said Bill Shaw
of IMAX, who does the technical end and
helps out with the inventing. He. too, was
at Cedar Point for the inaugural.
"The system uses 70mm film running
across, rather than up and down, as the
normal motion picture film does. The literature
says the 70mm system has a picture
ten times as large as the usual 35mm film.
""There are only three or four IMAX
cameras in existence and only five IM.^X
projection systems. The projector at Cedar
Point has an 8.000-watt xenon bulb. The
hoses carrying cooling water to the lamp
and away from it are about as big as the
wires carrying
the electricity.
""Each frame is 2x2 Vi inches, about the
size of a picture postcard. The projector is
designed to accommodate two films of the
same program. While one is running, the
other is being rewound.
tape are synchronized before the projection
starts and synchronization is maintained by
selsyn motors, meaning in essence that one
motor drives the other.
"So far there are five films in
IMAX and
a couple others are being made, one for
Philadelphia's observance of America's
200th anniversary. The film demands a special
theatre, the one at Cedar Point being
larger than any previous theatres.
"Ferguson said the screen may well be
the largest anywhere in the world, including
outdoor screens, which by implication are
excluded from the screen's billing as "the
largest indoor screen in the world.' But he
didn't know of any place where he could
conveniently check on outsize outdoor
screens, so he omitted them from the comparison.
A cautious fellow, Ferguson."
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Classic Pictures Offered
In Bicentennial Salute
YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO — A special
series of classic films screened during the
month of July kicked off the Youngstown-
Mahoining County Public Library bicentennial
salute to "'Movies of .America." Library
director Davd W. Griffith said outstanding
motion pictures will be shown each month
at
area libraries.
Films offered las! month at various
branches included "C'iti/en Kane," classic
picture starring Orson Welles; "Intermezzo,""
starring Leslie Howard and Ingrid Bergman;
Kirk Douglas in '"Champion,"" Ring Lardner
storv. and "Henrs \'.'" with 1 auroncc Oliv-
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