LOST Theaters of HARRISBURG & Vicinity: "At a deadly pace........

LOST Theaters of HARRISBURG & Vicinity: "At a deadly pace........: It Came From OUTER SPACE!      "Thrilling! Startling!" This 1953 Harrisburg newspaper ad hyped both the new 3-D and wide sc...

"At a deadly pace........

It Came From OUTER SPACE!

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Thrilling! Startling!"

This 1953 Harrisburg newspaper ad hyped both the new 3-D and wide screen processes though Outer Space was not in CinemaScope. (Wide screen - "Wide Vision Screen" - was also added to the Senate's logo, bottom right.)

 

It was in very effective black-and-white 3-D, however, and included stereophonic sound.

 

The Senate primarily screened films released by UI (Universal International) and RKO but in the CinemaScope era it also played the Harrisburg first-runs of 20th Century-Fox CinemaScope films, commencing with How To Marry A Millionaire, also 1953.

TOWER of LONDON (1962)

Lobby Card

 

SENATE Theatre

Market Square

 STILL LEGIT: Circa 1962 - Horror double-feature of Tower of London with Vincent Price, and The Vampire and the Ballerina. Tower was a Roger Corman production released by United Artists. 

Coming next was A Child Is Waiting, one of Judy Garland's last films. Burt Lancaster co-starred.

Note "Welcome Gov. Scranton" on the marquee.

  A QUICK DECLINE: About a decade or so so later. The beautiful Senate was reduced to showing "adult" i.e., porno films, on Market Square.

 

Note the letters missing on the marquee..... No doubt nobody cared now.