Cinerama Releasing Corporation (CRC) was a motion picture company established in 1967 that originally released films produced by its namesake parent company that was considered an "instant major".Page 10.
History In 1963, the owner of the Pacific Coast Theater chain, William R. Foreman, purchased Cinerama, Inc. In 1966, CRC was set up to be an independent distributor of widescreen motion pictures produced by Cinerama, various foreign films and ABC Pictures, the film production unit of the American Broadcasting Company.p. 332 Harpole, Charles History of the American Cinema University of California PressOrders of Magnitude. Page 332-333. CRC was only a distributor of films, without retaining copyright stake over each production. As an instant major by 1970, CRC reached a 10% market share. ABC Pictures ended operations in early 1973, thus CRC moved to primarily distributing non-financed films (acquisitions). By August 1974, CRC had released 125 acquired films at which time its productions and reissues were handled by American International Pictures. Cinerama, Inc., CRC's parent company, was liquidated in May 1978 with the Cinerama name ending up being owned by Pacific Coast Theater.
Films released
Release date Title Production company(ies) Format Custer of the West Cinerama Productions Corp. presents, Security Pictures Super Technirama 70 A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die Selmur Pictures. Panavision For Love of Ivy ABC Pictures International Charly Nobody Runs Forever (The High Commissioner) Rank Organisation, Rodlor, Inc., Selmur Pictures From AFI catalog. Shalako Palomar Pictures International, Kingston Film Productions, Ltd., CCC The Killing of Sister George ABC Pictures International Candy Hell in the Pacific Selmur Pictures. Panavision Follow Me Krakatoa, East of Java Cinerama Releasing Corporation Super Panavision 70 Ring of Bright Water Palomar Pictures International, The Rank Organisation Midas Run ABC Pictures International How to Commit Marriage Naho Productions Take the Money and Run ABC Pictures, Palomar Pictures Corporation What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? Palomar Pictures Corporation, The Associates & Aldrich Company Change of Mind Cinerama Productions Corp., Sagittarius Productions They Shoot Horses, Don't They? ABC Pictures International Jenny The Honeymoon Killers Roxanne Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly Brigitte, Fitzroy Films Ltd., Ronald J. Kahn Productions The Last Grenade Lockmore Too Late the Hero ABC Pictures International Lovers and Other Strangers Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came How Do I Love Thee? Song of Norway Zachariah The Last Valley Season Productions, ABC Pictures International The House That Dripped Blood Amicus Productions When Eight Bells Toll Gershwin-Kastner Productions, Winkast Film Productions The Grissom Gang ABC Pictures International, The Associates & Aldrich Company Willard Bing Crosby Productions My Old Man's Place Philip A. Waxman Productions Inc. The Touch ABC Pictures International Kotch The Trojan Women Josef Shaftel Productions Inc. The Statue Josef Shaftel Productions Inc. Straw Dogs ABC Pictures International Le Boucher Les Films de la Boétie, Euro International Film (EIA) Payday Fantasy Films, Fantasy Records, Pumice Finance Company Irish Whiskey Rebellion Tales from the Crypt Amicus Entertainment, Metromedia Producers Corporation Georgia, Georgia Diotima Films and Jorkel Productions Inc. Super 16 mm, blown up to 35mm film Compañeros Tritone Filmindustria, Atlantida Film, Terra-Filmkunst Hammersmith Is Out J. Cornelius Crean Films Inc. Ben Bing Crosby Productions The Happiness Cage International Film Ventures, Laterna Film Junior Bonner Bluebeard Gloria Film, Barnabé Productions, Geiselgasteig Film Necromancy Compass/Zenith International Black Girl Asylum Amicus Productions Walking Tall Bing Crosby Productions The Vault of Horror Amicus Entertainment, Metromedia Producers Corporation The Mack CRC & Harvey Bernhard Enterprises And Now the Screaming Starts! Amicus Productions Terror in the Wax Museum Andrew J. Fenady Productions, Bing Crosby Productions The Harrad Experiment Your Three Minutes Are Up Permut Presentations, Minutes Company A Name for Evil Penthouse Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls Freedom Arts Pictures Corporation The Pyx Host Productions Quebec Arnold Fenady Associates, Bing Crosby Productions Marco Tomorrow Entertainment, Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment Seizure How to Seduce a Woman Forward Street Gangs of Hong Kong Shaw Brothers Studio Catch My Soul Metromedia Productions The Beast Must Die Amicus Productions, British Lion Film Corporation Dark Places Glenbeigh, Sedgled The Mysterious Island of Captain Nemo Albina Productions S.a.r.l., Cameroons Development, Cité Films W Bing Crosby Productions Harrad Summer Cinema Arts Productions, Inc. Sunday in the Country American International Pictures, EMI Films, Canadian Film Development Corporation The Reincarnation of Peter Proud Bing Crosby Productions, American International Pictures
See also Major film studios National General Pictures, another instant major Commonwealth United, a sometimes instant major
References
Cook, David A. (2000). Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979. University of California Press.