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DETROIT<br />
^he annual meeting of th*; Youth Film<br />
Forum, project of the Greater Detroit<br />
Motion Picture and Television Council, was<br />
held at 10 a.m. Wednesday (6) at the home<br />
of Wilma Naimark. YFF chairman, in<br />
Southfield. Luncheon followed the business<br />
session. Edna Green is president of the<br />
Greater Detroit Motion Picture and Television<br />
Council.<br />
The "Sound Off column of the Free<br />
Press recently conducted a survey of moviegoers,<br />
asking for response to the question:<br />
"The scare movie "Jaws" will probably become<br />
the biggest boxoffice draw of all time.<br />
Do you pay to see a movie simply to be<br />
frightened?" A whopping 62.1 per cent<br />
voted "no" and some of the comments from<br />
this segment were: "Those movies aren't<br />
frightening. They're just plain disgusting"<br />
. . . "If I want to be frightened. I can walk<br />
'the streets of Detroit for free" ... "I saw it<br />
because I heard it was a good movie" .<br />
"After seeing 'Jaws' I'll never go in the<br />
ocean, again" .<br />
enough to be<br />
afraid of in daily living."<br />
Of those who responded. 37.9 f«r cent<br />
voted "yes," commenting as follows: "I love<br />
'being scared out of my wits" . . . "For the<br />
cost of movies I want either sex or violence<br />
in the story" . . . "It beats getting mugged"<br />
.<br />
not hung up on being frightened<br />
"A good horror<br />
but it's iinteresting" . .<br />
movie will take my mind completely off of<br />
work, bills and other worries.<br />
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"The Happy Hooker" (Cannon) opened<br />
saturation engagement in area hardtops<br />
a<br />
and underskyers Pictures"<br />
"The 7lh Voyage of Sinbad" in Dynarama<br />
opened in a number of walk-in theatres and<br />
in the Fort George, Jolly Roger and Pontiac<br />
drive-ins . . . MGM's "The Wind and the<br />
Lion," released by United Artists, was held<br />
over at the Quo Vadis, Showcase. Dearborn<br />
and Tel-Ex cinemas . . . "Rollerball."<br />
Norman Jewison film released by UA, is<br />
playing an exclusive engagement at the<br />
Northland.<br />
"Deliver Us From Evil" is on the screen<br />
at the Adams and Mercury, with "Johnny<br />
Tough!" as the co-feature.<br />
GCC Sets 'Meal 'n' Movie'<br />
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ST. LOUIS—General Cinema Corp.. in<br />
a tie-in with Ramada Inn, is featuring "A<br />
Meal 'n' Movie."<br />
Patrons having dinner or lunch at the<br />
Ramada Inn Westport receive a coupon for<br />
any show Monday through Thursday at "In place of sound on film, which is the<br />
Northwest Plaza, Sunset Hills or South usual approach to a movie, IMAX uses a<br />
County cinema by paying only $1.75 addi-<br />
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Cedar Point Cinema Has<br />
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(Continued from preceding page)<br />
ture exhibits used multiple cameras and multiple<br />
projectors to achieve vastness. Cinerama<br />
(not shown at E.xpo "67) initially used<br />
three cameras and three projectors. Some<br />
projection systems used as many as a dozen<br />
cameras, all carefully synchronized. "Our<br />
idea was to use one camera.' said Bill Shaw<br />
of IMAX, who does the technical end and<br />
helps out with the inventing. He. too, was<br />
at Cedar Point for the inaugural.<br />
"The system uses 70mm film running<br />
across, rather than up and down, as the<br />
normal motion picture film does. The literature<br />
says the 70mm system has a picture<br />
ten times as large as the usual 35mm film.<br />
""There are only three or four IMAX<br />
cameras in existence and only five IM.^X<br />
projection systems. The projector at Cedar<br />
Point has an 8.000-watt xenon bulb. The<br />
hoses carrying cooling water to the lamp<br />
and away from it are about as big as the<br />
wires carrying<br />
the electricity.<br />
""Each frame is 2x2 Vi inches, about the<br />
size of a picture postcard. The projector is<br />
designed to accommodate two films of the<br />
same program. While one is running, the<br />
other is being rewound.<br />
tape are synchronized before the projection<br />
starts and synchronization is maintained by<br />
selsyn motors, meaning in essence that one<br />
motor drives the other.<br />
"So far there are five films in<br />
IMAX and<br />
a couple others are being made, one for<br />
Philadelphia's observance of America's<br />
200th anniversary. The film demands a special<br />
theatre, the one at Cedar Point being<br />
larger than any previous theatres.<br />
"Ferguson said the screen may well be<br />
the largest anywhere in the world, including<br />
outdoor screens, which by implication are<br />
excluded from the screen's billing as "the<br />
largest indoor screen in the world.' But he<br />
didn't know of any place where he could<br />
conveniently check on outsize outdoor<br />
screens, so he omitted them from the comparison.<br />
A cautious fellow, Ferguson."<br />
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Classic Pictures Offered<br />
In Bicentennial Salute<br />
YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO — A special<br />
series of classic films screened during the<br />
month of July kicked off the Youngstown-<br />
Mahoining County Public Library bicentennial<br />
salute to "'Movies of .America." Library<br />
director Davd W. Griffith said outstanding<br />
motion pictures will be shown each month<br />
at<br />
area libraries.<br />
Films offered las! month at various<br />
branches included "C'iti/en Kane," classic<br />
picture starring Orson Welles; "Intermezzo,""<br />
starring Leslie Howard and Ingrid Bergman;<br />
Kirk Douglas in '"Champion,"" Ring Lardner<br />
storv. and "Henrs \'.'" with 1 auroncc Oliv-<br />
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ME-2 August 11, 1975