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Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. The city is located in North Central Texas and covers nearly 350 square miles (910 km2) in Tarrant, Denton, Parker, and Wise counties—serving as the seat for Tarrant County. According to the 2014 census estimates, Fort Worth has a population of 812,238. The city is the second-largest in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area (the "DFW Metroplex").
The city was established in 1849 as an Army outpost on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River. Today Fort Worth still embraces its Western heritage and traditional architecture and design.USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) is the first ship of the United States Navy named after the city.
Fort Worth is home to the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and several world-class museums. The Kimbell Art Museum, considered to have one of the best collections in Texas, is housed in what is widely regarded as one of Texas' foremost works of modern architecture designed by Louis Kahn and Renzo Piano. Also of note are the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, designed by Tadao Ando, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, which houses one of the most extensive collections of American art in the world in a building designed by Philip Johnson. The city is also home to Texas Christian University, Texas Wesleyan University, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas A&M University School of Law, and many multinational corporations including Bell Helicopter, Lockheed Martin, American Airlines, Pier 1 Imports, Radio Shack, and others.
Fort Worth is a 1951 western film directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring Randolph Scott. It is Marin's final directing work, as he died two months before the release.
Former gunfighter Ned Britt (Randolph Scott) sets up shop in Fort Worth, Texas as a newspaper man. He falls in love with Flora Talbot (Phyllis Thaxter), who is the fiancée of a former friend, Blair Lunsford (David Brian). Britt tries to expose the crooked cattle baron Gabe Clevinger (Ray Teal) in his newspaper. Clevinger resorts to violence in order to prevent the arrival of the railroad at Fort Worth and Britt has to rethink his journalistic methods to stop him and resort to violence himself.
Fort Worth is an American city which is the fifth most populous locality in Texas.
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The Omni Theater, powered by Cosm technology, will be the world’s first LED 8k digital dome of its size in a museum. Using Cosm’s technology, the theater can produce completely immersive multi-video presentations, corporate events, product launches, experiential fundraisers, and more for a best-in-class viewing experience that stimulates audience engagement. Other updates include major updates to the lobby making it one level for ADA accessibility, a new guest entry, and more comfortable seating. Find out more about the Omni Theater renovation project at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History by visiting us at www.fwmuseum.org/explore/omni-theater/!
The new digital screen could begin its 18-month construction this year.
Downtown Cowtown at the Isis is primed to become the premiere provider of quality live theatrical performances, movies and entertainment located in the Historic Stockyards of Fort Worth.
WFAA Collection. Some of the last images of the Worth Theatre before everything was sold at auction. Includes the last notes played on the organ.
"Fort Worth Flyover" is the name of a short IMAX film created for the Omni Theater at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, the first one commissioned by a specific museum. The original "Fort Worth Flyover" debuted in 1983 as part of "The Legend of the Sleeping Panther", a multimedia presentation on the city's history that accompanied the Omni Theater's first IMAX feature, "Hail Columbia!" "Sleeping Panther" was retired at the end of Omni's "Hail Columbia!" engagement, but the helicopter ride feature was then at the beginning of "To Fly" and has shown on every Omni feature since 1984.
The theater is back with a red carpet premiere.
Despite plans to save it, the Berry Theatre building is no more.
The final show at Fort Worth's Hollywood theater with the last screening being Martin Ritt's Pete N Tillie. January 1973.
A behind-the-scenes look at load-in for Disney's THE LION KING at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, TX. Disney's THE LION KING Bass Performance Hall January 18-29, 2023 www.basshall.com/lionking Filmed by Wood FilmMakers Productions
Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. The city is located in North Central Texas and covers nearly 350 square miles (910 km2) in Tarrant, Denton, Parker, and Wise counties—serving as the seat for Tarrant County. According to the 2014 census estimates, Fort Worth has a population of 812,238. The city is the second-largest in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area (the "DFW Metroplex").
The city was established in 1849 as an Army outpost on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River. Today Fort Worth still embraces its Western heritage and traditional architecture and design.USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) is the first ship of the United States Navy named after the city.
Fort Worth is home to the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and several world-class museums. The Kimbell Art Museum, considered to have one of the best collections in Texas, is housed in what is widely regarded as one of Texas' foremost works of modern architecture designed by Louis Kahn and Renzo Piano. Also of note are the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, designed by Tadao Ando, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, which houses one of the most extensive collections of American art in the world in a building designed by Philip Johnson. The city is also home to Texas Christian University, Texas Wesleyan University, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas A&M University School of Law, and many multinational corporations including Bell Helicopter, Lockheed Martin, American Airlines, Pier 1 Imports, Radio Shack, and others.