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film, consisting an opera performance, was 46 seconds in length Fantasound was an experimental surround system system created for Walt Disney Pictures Disney s film Fantasia film Fantasia . No Fantasound ... more details
about an individual theatre of this name theatre district and the collection of 500 seat theatres in New York City that are referred to as Broadway Broadway theatre coord 40.763481 73.983492 type landmark region US NY scale 2000 format dms display title Infobox Theatre name Broadway Theatre image Promises Promises at Broadway Theatre.JPG caption address 1681 Broadway city New York City country USA designation latitude longitude architect Eugene De Rosa owner The Shubert Organization capacity 1,761 type Broadway opened December 25, 1924 yearsactive rebuilt 1956 BR 1986 closed othernames Universal s Colony Theatre BR B.S. Moss Broadway Theatre BR Early Carroll s Broadway Theatre BR Cin Roma production currentuse website shubertorganization.com theatres broadway.asp File Broadway Theatre NYC entrance.jpg thumb Entrance The Broadway Theatre formerly Universal s Colony Theatre , B.S. Moss Broadway Theatre , Earl Carroll s Broadway Theatre , and Cin Romais is a Broadway theatre Broadway theatre structure theatre located at 1681 Broadway New York City Broadway in midtown Manhattan . Designed by architect Eugene De Rosa for Benjamin S. Moss , it opened as B.S. Moss s Colony Theatre on Christmas Christmas Day 1924 as a venue for vaudeville shows and film motion pictures . On November 18, 1928 the first Mickey Mouse cartoon released to the public, Steamboat Willie , debuted at the Colony. Producer Walt Disney returned to this theater on November 13, 1940 to debut the feature film Fantasia film Fantasia in Fantasound , an early stereo system. The theater was re named Universal s Colony Theatre , B.S. Moss Broadway Theatre , and Earl Carroll s Broadway Theatre before becoming a legitimate theater house simply called Broadway Theatre on December 8, 1930 . In 1937, known as Cin Roma , it showed Italy Italian films . The Shubert Organization Shuberts bought it in 1939. It was renovated extensively in 1956 and 1986. The large stage nearly sixty feet deep and seating capacity 1,7 ... more details
to musical pieces. The soundtrack was recorded using a multi channel sound process called Fantasound ... audience at first, and the limitations in reproducing Fantasound left Disney in financial straits ... Main Fantasound File Phila AcademyofMusicl03.JPG thumb left 250px The Academy of Music hall in Philadelphia ... sound multi channel sound process that was dubbed Fantasound , making Fantasia the first commercial ... 9003190601 1 leopold stokowski fantasound fantasia title Conductor s Sound Innovations Make The Most ... of Fantasound journal Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers volume 39 pages 16 ... Fantasound, the nine recorded tracks were mixed into four three were used for the music, voices ... News date February 9, 2005 accessdate January 18, 2011 ref Fantasound marked the first use of the click ... 14 theatres, as the installation of equipment required for Fantasound at each venue was costly. ref ... Thomas accessdate March 4, 2011 date September 28, 1990 ref All but one of the Fantasound systems had ... copy was stored onto magnetic film from the remaining Fantasound set up at the Disney studios in Burbank ... more details
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Year nav topic2 1940 film television radio The year 1940 in film involved some significant events. Events February 7 Walt Disney s animated film Pinocchio 1940 film Pinocchio is released. February 10 Tom and Jerry MGM Tom and Jerry make their debut in the animated cartoon Puss Gets the Boot . May 17 My Favorite Wife is released. May A reproduction of America s First Movie Studio , Thomas Edison s Edison s Black Maria Black Maria , is constructed. July 27 Bugs Bunny makes his official debut in the animated cartoon A Wild Hare . October 15 The Great Dictator , a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin , is released. November 13 World premiere of Walt Disney s Fantasia film Fantasia , the first film to be released in a multichannel sound format see Fantasound . The film also marked the first use of the click track while recording the soundtrack, overdubbing of orchestral parts, simultaneous multitrack recording and lead to the development of a multichannel surround system. In the United Kingdom , the Crown Film Unit supersedes the GPO Film Unit in the production of documentary film s. Top grossing films U.S. class wikitable Rank Title Studio Actors Gross 1. Fantasia film Fantasia Disney RKO Deems Taylor 98,000,000 2. Pinocchio 1940 film Pinocchio Disney RKO 84,000,000 3. Rebecca 1940 film Rebecca Selznick United Artists Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine 4. Boom Town film Boom Town MGM Clark Gable , Claudette Colbert , Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr 5. Santa Fe Trail film Santa Fe Trail Warner Bros. Errol Flynn , Olivia de Havilland and Ronald Reagan 6. The Philadelphia Story film The Philadelphia Story MGM Katharine Hepburn , Cary Grant and James Stewart actor James Stewart 7. Strange Cargo 1940 film Strange Cargo MGM Clark Gable and Joan Crawford 8. Virginia City film Virginia City Warner Bros. Errol Flynn and Miriam Hopkins 9. Down Argentine Way 20th Century Fox Betty Grable and Don Ameche 10. Kitty Foyle film Kitty Foyle RKO Ginger Rogers and ... more details
a special sound system Fantasound had been devised and required each theater that showed it in the original release to be specially prepared. Also, like Fantasound, Quintaphonic Sound was never used ... more details
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