Thanks Doug, and thanks for your kind words.
You are, of course, correct about the ultimate outcome on the cinerama. To clarify, we were trying to portray what was going on at that moment, in 1960, when Cooper Theaters had designated the Criterion for Cinerama and they were boasting it would be the only such theater. Looking back, though, I wish we could have made the ultimate outcome of that clearer.

As an aside, it's interesting to note that at one point in history almost all the downtown theaters were owned by one person. But that story is for another day.

Doug, I have some videos you might want to see. They're posted online with the news article at newsok.com, but I'd be glad to get you the actual DVD of the videos if you would like to display them on your site.
- Steve Lackmeyer