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5th<br />
DISCUSSING 'JAWS'—Un a promotional<br />
visit to Cincinnati, "Jaws"<br />
producers Richard Zanuck. left, and<br />
David Brown, right, were interviewed<br />
by WLW-T's Rosemary Kelly. The<br />
record-breaking film which has touched<br />
off a wave of "sharkoniania" across<br />
the country is a Zanuck/ Brown production<br />
released bv Universal Pictures.<br />
'Jaws' 800, 'Nashville'<br />
700 in Cincinnati<br />
CINCINNATI — -Jaws" continued to<br />
scare patrons at four theatres with a big<br />
800 reported at boxoffices. "Nashville" rang<br />
out with 700 in its bow at Showcase 1 while<br />
•Rollerball" scored a bright 600 in its third<br />
frame at the Valley. "The Return of the<br />
Pink Panther" held onto fourth place with<br />
500 in a 10th outing at Times Towne.<br />
[Average Is 100)<br />
Carousel 1 The Other Side of the Mountain<br />
(Univ), loth wk 375<br />
Carousel 2, Skywolk—The Fortune (Col), 2nd wk. 150<br />
Four theatres Jaws (Univ), 6th wk 800<br />
Four theatres Bite the Bullet (Col), 4th wk. . . .175<br />
Four theatres The Apple Dumpling Gang (BV),<br />
3rd wk 300<br />
Northgate The Happy Hooker (SR), 6th wk. ..100<br />
Showcase 1 Nashville (Para) 700<br />
Showcase 2 Jocqueline Susann's Once Is<br />
Not Enough (Para), 5th wk 375<br />
Showcase 3— Funny Lody (Col), 20th wk 275<br />
Showcase A—Mondingo (Para), 10th wk 250<br />
Showcase 5 Monty Python and the Holy Grail<br />
(SR), 4th wk 300<br />
Times Towne The Return of the Pink Panther<br />
(UA), 10th wk 500<br />
Tri-County The Drowning 1<br />
Pool (WB), 2nd wk. 300<br />
Tri-County 2 W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings<br />
(20th-Fox), 2nd wk 400<br />
Volley— Rollerball UA), 3rd wk 600<br />
'laws' Attracts 480 in Detroit;<br />
'Nashville' Scores 375 in 3rd<br />
DETROIT — "Jaws" attracted a strong<br />
gross of 480 in a fifth week at seven theatres<br />
here. "Nashville" at Radio City rang<br />
out a hefty 375 in its third week. "One of<br />
Our Dinosaurs Is Missing" found 350 in a<br />
second week at 1 1 situations. "Rollerball"<br />
rated 290 in a second outing at the Northland.<br />
Americana Tommy (Col), 1 7th wk 145<br />
Eight theatres Jacqueline Susann's Once Is<br />
Not Enough (Para), 4th wk 150<br />
I 1 theotre^ One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing<br />
(BV), 2nd wk 350<br />
Four theatres W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings<br />
(20th-Fox), 2nd wk 80<br />
14 theotres Aloha, Bobby and Rose (Col),<br />
2nd wk 65<br />
Northland— Rollerball (UA), 2nd wk 290<br />
Radio City— Nashville Parol, 3rd wk 375<br />
Seven theatres- Jaws Umv , wk 480<br />
Seven theatre;— Love ond Death UA), 4th wk. . .150<br />
Seven theatres— Bite the Bullet iCol), 3rd wk. . . 85<br />
Six theatres—The Wind and the Lion (UA),<br />
4th wk 120<br />
Six theatres The Fortune (Col), 4th wk 90<br />
Six theatres The Drowning Pool (Col), 4th wk. . . 90<br />
27 theatres—The Devil's Rain (SR) 115<br />
Two theotres Cooley High (AlP), 4th wk 125<br />
Two theatres Bucktown (AlP), 3rd wk 150<br />
Two theotres Bug (Para), 2nd wk 70<br />
BOXOFHCE .Xugust 1975<br />
World's Largest Indoor Screen<br />
Uses Impressive INIAX System<br />
.SANDUSK.Y. OHIO—The S2 million<br />
( cdar<br />
June<br />
Point Cinema<br />
and which<br />
which<br />
features<br />
opened last<br />
the I MAX system,<br />
projecting film images on the world's<br />
largest indoor motion picture screen, was<br />
the subject of an entire feature article by<br />
Cleveland Plain Dealer movie critic Emerson<br />
Batdorff. His comments about the cinema<br />
follow:<br />
"Sheer bigness is impressive. What is<br />
hilled as the world's largest indoor movie<br />
screen, new at Cedar Point, is so big it<br />
swallows you. It engulfs you. It washes over<br />
you. It is overpowering.<br />
Bigness Scares Viewers<br />
"It drags you along, willy-nilly, in an airplane<br />
making what appears to<br />
be a suicidal<br />
trip through the Grand Canyon and in a<br />
car being driven by an insane hot-rodder<br />
through crowded city streets.<br />
"In such situations it is even more upsetting<br />
than Cinerama was. Cinerama being<br />
just a kid in comparison. The big screen is<br />
about three times as large as Cinerama. If<br />
this were only an example of motion picture<br />
technical trickery the result would be impressive<br />
but the picture showing this summer<br />
is impressive artistically, making this<br />
perhaps the best of all possible worlds.<br />
"On the giant screen f66 feet high—as<br />
high as a seven-story building—and 88 feet<br />
wide) is "Man Belongs to the Earth.' This<br />
is a 22-minute effort to reconcile man with<br />
his living quarters.<br />
Film Not 'Gummed Up'<br />
"Do not be discouraged by the fact that<br />
it is an offering of the U.S. Department of<br />
Commerce. A man's initial reaction to this<br />
word is that government gums up everything<br />
else and most movies are gummed up anyhow,<br />
so the two together would be fairly unwatchable.<br />
"Somehow, the Department of Commerce<br />
realized this and got someone eke to make<br />
the movie. It is splendid. It was made for<br />
the U.S. Pavilion at the E.xpo in Spokane<br />
last year by. oddly enough, a group of Cana-<br />
after having been built at a cost of $2 million<br />
in a space of 80 days. Ferguson found<br />
things going well, somewhat to his surprise.<br />
It may not be hard to spend $2 million in<br />
80 days but to spend it productively is difficult.<br />
"Ferguson is part of IMAX, a Canadian<br />
organization with headquarters in southern<br />
Ontario. He's an artistic-looking duck with<br />
sprawling iron-gray hair and horn-rimmed<br />
glas.ses but dres-ses as a businessman . . none<br />
of the typical movie director's patched blue<br />
jeans and love beads for him. I think I endeared<br />
myself to Ferguson early in the game<br />
by asking if IMAX didn't stand for maximum<br />
image. He beamed and said it did.<br />
"At this point it is perhaps best to separate<br />
the picture from its system of projection.<br />
First, a discassion of the artistic<br />
merits; later, a di.scu,ssion of the new technology.<br />
'The first thing I found about the<br />
government policy on ecology was that every<br />
department had a different one. There was<br />
no fixed policy." Ferguson said. 'Obviously<br />
the picture would have to be general. But<br />
we didn't want it bland. What we needed<br />
was a father-figure who.se word could not<br />
be doubted.'<br />
"It was an inspiration of genius to settle<br />
on Chief Dan George, star of "Little Big<br />
Man' and a man of impressive if approachable<br />
dignity, to do this job. 'We figured the<br />
chief would have .some ideas about ecology,<br />
so we sent a researcher out to talk with him,'<br />
Ferguson explained.<br />
Chiefs Ecology Message<br />
".'Vs it turned out. Chief Dan George was<br />
a mine of information about ecology. Out<br />
of a three-day talk, which was taped, came<br />
all the words that the chief says on the<br />
screen. We didn't add anything,' said Ferguson.<br />
"That story he tells about his father<br />
catching him gaffing fish for the fun of it<br />
was exactly as he told it.'<br />
"What the chief's father said to him was,<br />
"Never destroy fish for the fun of it. It is<br />
not<br />
right with the Great Spirit.'<br />
"Chief Dan George showed up for the<br />
filming in<br />
his blue jeans and fringed leather<br />
jacket and perhaps 20 or 30 finger rings,<br />
his usual number. 'What he showed up in,<br />
he wore,' said Ferguson. 'You don't tinker<br />
with an authentic father-figure.'<br />
Rare, Impressive Images<br />
-The chief is only part of the movie. It<br />
also shows rare whooping cranes, an alligator<br />
lurking in the Everglades, a charming<br />
sea otter floating on its back while eating<br />
an abalone and also less desirable images.<br />
Suddenly the vast screen is full of ants. No,<br />
they aren't ants—they are motorcycles<br />
jouncing across a vast plain, cycles by the<br />
thousands, teeming, squirming and defacing.<br />
'We were hoping for something big<br />
for a climax,' said Ferguson. 'Finally we got<br />
dians.<br />
word that there was an oil well fire. Fortunately<br />
for us. it happened, although unfort-<br />
"Graeme Ferguson, the director and<br />
photographer, showed up at Cedar Point to<br />
unately for the ecology.' An oil well fire<br />
.see how the new theatre was working out<br />
being extinguished by dynamite is impressive.<br />
"Ferguson is a pioneer in working with<br />
IMAX. a screen system so big that you really<br />
can't in good conscience dolly in for a<br />
closeup. as is possible on other screens. The<br />
very idea of someone's teeth being shown<br />
.seven stories high is daunting and as for the<br />
camera concentrating on an actor's left<br />
nostril— well, the idea is just impossible.<br />
"You have to direct people's attention to<br />
your center of interest in other ways.' said<br />
Ferguson. 'The eye is free to roam, because<br />
the screen is so big.'<br />
"IMAX was developed following Expo<br />
"67 in Montreal, where many motion pic-<br />
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