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announcements and changes included a memorial for Lyle
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sent a camera crew to cover the opening of the marathon. It continued to be the headline movie event of the season with features including being the only theater in the city to run 70mm film. While the theater's ability to project in 70mm was later discontinued for over two decades, this feature was
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In the early days of the marathon, multiple campus film societies collaborated to make an event so large able to happen, including the CWRU Film
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Fiction Marathon was started by Charles Knox, a staff astronomer at CWRU. The inaugural event took place from January 18 through 24, 1976. That first year, 1,100 filmgoers watched 16 films in 28 hours with over 100 staying for all of the films. At any given marathon, they show a
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variety of films from a wide range of time periods with attention to never show too many films from any one decade and always being sure to include a new title as well as an older film.
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community, and people from out of state and from other countries. The
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