The earliest production at Panorama was The Littlest Hobo, a television series that ran from 1963 to 1965. The Trap (released in 1966) and Robert Altman's That Cold Day in the Park (released in 1969) were early productions shot at Panorama. The sets for the former production stood on the two stages for several years, until they were demolished in 1970 for Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge.
The facility went bankrupt in the mid-1960s and most of the sound equipment was removed and sold.
In 1969, PBS Studios Limited/Coast Records moved from West 8th Avenue in Vancouver to lease the projection room and associated offices, converting the projection room into a recording studio for its eight track music recording studio. Tremaine had envisioned music recording in the projection theater and consequently the floor of the projection room was level and without theater seating. He had also designed a control booth, never used until PBS installed the first Ampex MM-1000 eight track one-inch recorder in Canada at Panorama. PBS's custom-built console included input channels made by Neve, Altec studio monitors, Dolby-A units plus an EMT plate reverb. The studio was equipped with a grand piano and Neumann U 87 microphones. PBS/Coast recorded and released a number of 45's featuring Vancouver-area artists such as the Seeds of Time, the Northwest Company, Spring and others. PBS also recorded the sound track to the low budget production Madeline Is, tracks for the band The Collectors, various albums and numerous radio spots and commercial jingles.
The film projection facility had fallen into disrepair and was modernized by Brent Jaybush of PBS Studios for use by the productions of the Carnal Knowledge and McCabe and Mrs. Miller, which were being shot roughly simultaneously. McCabe and Mrs Miller was shot at nearby Cypress Bowl, not at Panorama, but rented the projection facility from PBS Studios to run dailies.
Director Mike Nichols, film editor Sam O'Steen and PBS's Jaybush designed and built a portable 35 mm film sound recording system in the PBS workshop at Panorama and moved it to Nichol's Connecticut studio. Using principles derived from Howard Tremaine's blueprints for Panorama (provided to Jaybush by Tremaine's widow), a modern 35mm editing/post production facility was built at Bridgewater, Connecticut by Nichols in an almost 200-year-old barn.
While Carnal Knowledge was arguably the apex of Panorama's credentials, numerous other films and television productions were shot at Panorama throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including: