įrom 2013 until its closing, the Ziegfeld was managed by Bow Tie Cinemas, on behalf of Cablevision, which owned the theater. The screen was 20 feet tall and 52 feet wide, making it the largest non-IMAX screen in New York City. The theater became the largest single-screen cinema operating in New York. During the 2000s, digital projection was installed. It was a centerpiece site during the 2008 New York Film Festival because of reconstruction work at Lincoln Center that year. The theater underwent extensive renovations in the late 1990s. In 1987, Cineplex Odeon Corporation acquired the Walter Reade Organization and took over operation of the theatre. From then it was often used for world premieres and big-event press screenings, such as the November 1977 opening of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Īfter Marooned it showed reissues until July 1, 1970, when it had the world premiere of Walt Disney Productions' The Boatniks. The theatre had 1,152 seats (825 seats in the orchestra section and 306 seats in the tiered rear section).

The gold and maroon interior was designed by John J. It was one of the last large-scale, single-screen movie palaces built in the United States. Ĭonstructed by Emery Roth & Sons from designs by Irving Gershon it was built on part of the old theatre and was the first new theatre in the Times Square area since Radio City Music Hall was built in 1932. It was the flagship of the Walter Reade movie theatre chain. On December 17, 1969, a few hundred feet from the site of the original Ziegfeld Theatre, a new Ziegfeld opened as a single-screen movie house with the New York premiere of Marooned.

The theater was named in honor of the original Ziegfeld Theatre (1927–1966), which was built by the impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. The Ziegfeld Theatre was a single-screen movie theater located at 141 West 54th Street in midtown Manhattan in New York City. This article is about the 1969 movie theater.

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