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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs screens at the Orinda Theatre.<\/p>\n
Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures<\/p>\n
For many cinephiles, a love of movies starts with Disney. Mat\u00edas Bombal, who organized the film series of restored Disney-owned classics now showing in Orinda, was instantly drawn to the movie-going experience when he saw Fantasia at age 3.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy parents took me to see it at the Elmwood Theatre in Berkeley,\u201d he says. \u201cI loved it, but I was so frightened by the \u2018Night on Bald Mountain\u2019 sequence that I turned and looked at the light coming out of the projection booth\u2014I was drawn like a moth to that light.\u201d Raised on foreign films at venues like the UC Theatre (his parents didn\u2019t allow him to watch television), Bombal spent decades doing nearly every job possible in movie theaters, including programming repertory cinemas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He recently brought his talents to the Orinda Theatre, where he curates several classic film series, including one featuring restored movies from the Disney vault, some of which haven\u2019t been available theatrically for years. The Orinda also hosts a series of widescreen epics presented in the original roadshow style, with overture music and intermissions.<\/p>\n
On June 6, audiences can enjoy Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, accompanied by a guest speaker discussing Disney\u2019s restoration process. On July 4, the series continues with a screening of The Sword in the Stone. A highlight of the Wide Screen Roadshow Series is the Oscar-winning epic Ben-Hur, showing on June 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Orinda will\u00a0also screen Fantasia on December 28\u201331 as part of the theater\u2019s 85th anniversary celebration. Says Bombal, \u201cThe Orinda is a beautiful cinema that was built for movies like these.\u201d orindamovies.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs screens at the Orinda Theatre. Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures For many…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[139269,3588,139270,143,145,144,29953,139271],"class_list":["post-337535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-classic-films","tag-disney","tag-fantasia","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-orinda-theatre","tag-snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}