Jim Korkis: The Carthay Circle was one of those iconic movie palaces that looked almost like a classic Spanish castle with an interior that had a somewhat unique circle design for seating. It was a beautiful, elegant theater and at night, its enormous neon sign and the floodlights illuminating the arches made it look like something out of a fairy tale.
Jim: Of course, the theater showed the early Mickey Mouse cartoons before some of its feature films. Walt knew if he could get the short shown in a prestigious theater that an audience would love it. Walt found a salesman he knew at a local pool hall and convinced him to contact Fred Miller, the manager of the Carthay Circle Theatre, and gave him a print of the film. Miller liked it and booked it into the theater in August where it was a huge hit. What was the premiere like? They loved it!
Tens of thousands of people gathered outside on that cool starlit December night—December 21, —to catch a glimpse of these celebrities and others who paid the outrageous price of five bucks to see the debut that had been sold out many days beforehand. It was an elaborate premiere with newsreel photographers, radio interviewers and more, including an outdoor display explaining the making of the film with all those wonderful pieces of original artwork and cels exposed to the weather for weeks and weeks.
Usherettes wore Snow White costumes. This was all a pretty big deal. Also, there was a Snow White Island a median strip almost feet long, and on this was built a ten-foot-high cottage of the Seven Dwarfs, a diamond mine, a mill, a garden, and more. For the premiere, there were costumed performers as the dwarfs, but for most of the rest of the run of the film, they were replaced by concrete figures. Can you tell me more?
Jim: The Carthay was only one of thirteen theaters to be fitted with the full Fantasound equipment for the road show premiere of Fantasia. Actually most of those locations were legitimate theater houses like the Geary in San Francisco. Wilshire at Fairfax looking east, You are here Home Explore L. Neighborhoods of Wilshire. History of Wilshire Blvd. A miracle of commerce and a neighborhood themed on California history.
Despite criticism of the theatre's distance from most residential neighborhoods of the time, shows consistently sold out, from the first screening, The Volga Boatman by Cecil B. De Mille. The theatre was envisioned as a tribute to the founders and pioneers of California.
It was designed to recall the state's mission heritage, including an illuminated Spanish-style tower and paintings depicting the progress of California. The theatre became known as "The Showplace of the Golden West. Premieres at the Carthay Circle evolved into major Hollywood sensations, with lines of cars turning off Wilshire onto McCarthy Vista under weaving spotlights. Despite its endurance as a showplace for grand films through the s, the Carthay Circle Theatre was demolished in and replaced with an office building, presumably because it was no longer profitable.
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