Where are the quotes from?
Well, sorry to imply it's somebody else's quotes by boxing them out but the words are based on written facts from memory sprinkled with my tenor that's all. I don't have the sources in front of me but it was actually an amalgamation of facts I've kept in an old clippings file throughout the decades:
1. The Cinerama/sequel tidbit was taken from a column from a winter 72 issue of a Chinese Pictorial Review rag (the other Movie News) based outta Singapore.
2. Another was from an unnamed Chinese language newsprint clipping from a weekly HK tabloid (equivalent to today's 'Ming Pao') from the same year,
3. and the last was a widely publicized HK Movie News piece from 1971 (issue escapes me but I remember Shih Szu gracing the front cover & Lo Wei's 'Snow Girl' poster on the back) when Run Run & then Governor McLehose christened the Pearl with much fanfare during the HK premiere of 'Krakatoa East of Java'. I'll scan & post em if I can dig one out of storage (but I bet Heinz has a few of these).
BTW by the time Cinerama hit the then Colony, Shaws was already a late bloomer IMO. The Cinerama moniker was already on its way out in the States by this time being replaced by Todd-AO (Man, those humongous 16 foot tall curved 2.55:1 stereo screenings used to give me goosebumps as a kid i.e. like watching 'Towering Inferno'. For you younguns now, it was like the IMAX of their day w/o Dolby THX of course). Anyway, they most likely sent their reels for conversion here on the West Coast-two old defunct outfits I knew of in particular: either at 'Western Theatrical' here in SF on Market or to 'D-150 Inc.' down in Hollywood on Sunset.
