Theatre Cinerama AKA Colonial
Cinerama film formats shown 3-strip and 70mm
3-strip dates From 09/20/61 to 12/19/65
70mm dates From 103/25/64 both systems used in Parallel
Screen curvature and size  
Address 492 Farmington Avenue
Comments  
Current status Demolished except for facade

 

The following six pictures came from a brochure when the Colonial theatre first opened.

Below from the September 12, 1966 issue of Boxoffice

Small poster for Ice Station Zebra which premiered December 18, 1968 at the Hartford Cinerama Theatre

 

Ticket flyer

Printing block (picture reversed) for Khartoum

The pictures below were taken in 1974 when it was no longer a Cinerama theatre. 

 

 

The pictures below I took before they gutted it. 

In the pictures above and below you can see the projection booth for Cinerama below the balcony. They also put up a wall halfway into the balcony. I guess the seats behind it would not be a good view for Cinerama.

Above and below are the stage area. I guess they used the thing above to list the acts in the days of vaudeville.

Above looking up into the stage to the skylight.

Above and below are inside the Cinerama projection booth.

Below behind the wall in the balcony. The old seats before Cinerama were still there. You can also see where the movies were projected before Cinerama.

The old projection that was used before Cinerama. Below is a picture of the front of the theatre from when a group was trying to have it restored.