Came across these photos of the Midway Drive-In, somewhere in Ohio. (My apologies to the photographer — not sure where I found these.)
It’s obvious how the owners handled to transition to CinemaScope — they simply added “wings” to either side of the screen tower. My guess is the extension would’ve happened in early ’54.
Imagine The Man From Laramie (1955) on such a screen on a nice night.
Now that’s what I call a “big screen”! Don’t think I could get that in the living room. Sad though, that it seems to be part of the past now. I remember going to Drive Ins back in the early ’70′s.
We added “wings” to both our drive-in screens in 1954. First scope we ran was RIVER OF NO RETURN.
Did you do it yourself or was there a company that went around renovating screens?