70MM NEWS HOT OF THE PRESS
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Restoration of
"Lawrence of Arabia"
By Columbia Pictures
In '86, Bob Harris, contacted Columbia with a proposal
to restore the original premiere version of "Lawrence of
Arabia" |
 Short
Stories Updated
Read about 70mm in Le Havre, 70mm Fullcoat, 80 Days,
Enthusiast from Brazil and more
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 Review:
"Earthquake" in Sensurround
By Volker Hannemann
A review of the 2006 screening in Schauburg, Karlsruhe. |
 Rick
Mitchell Interview
By 65/70mm Workshop
Rick Mitchell's work has appeared in American
Cinematographer, Los Angeles Times and Weekly Variety as
well as on in70mm.com. |
 Vistamorph
Update
By Chris O'Kane
The plan
is to shoot in Vistamorph format and produce prints in 35mm,
70mm print and digital. |
 The passing of Georg
Fricker
By Peter Kohl, Karlsruhe
The Karlsruhe cinema entrepreneur Georg Fricker has passed away. |
 Digital
restoration of "How the West Was Won"
By Rick Mitchell
The screening that ended last weekend's "The Reel Thing-XX"
was a digital presentation of MGM's "How The West Was Won"
scanned at 2K from original negatives. |
 Taking
In the Big Picture
By Joe Morgenstern
Having savored the movie's full grandeur way back then,
I was eager for the lights to go down and the overture to
begin. |
 Amsterdam
70mm Cinema History
By Jan-Hein Bal
Du Midi was Amsterdam’s first and most successful 70mm cinema and
started 70mm projection in 1960 with "Porgy And Bess" |
 Morten
Skallerud visits in70mm.com
By Thomas Hauerslev
Morten was in Copenhagen on official film restoration
business when he visited
the in70mm.com head quarter. |
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IN GERMAN
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Jean
Pierre Gutzeit:
Zur drohenden
Schließung des Berliner ROYAL-PALAST |
Clemens Scherer:
Rückblick auf das Karlsruher Wochenende 2005 |
Grant Lobban:
Grant's Blow-up Blog |
Grant Lobban:
Eine historische Betrachtung
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Restaurierung von „Tatis herrliche Zeiten“ |
Georg
Fricker |
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IN FRENCH
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| Jean-René
FAILLIOT:
La
restauration de "Play Time" |
Sylvian Coudène:
Le CAPRI
Juan Les Pins |
Loïc LEDEZ: Meet the Chief |
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5 YEARS AGO - 2003 |
"Meet The Chief"
- Jan Niebuhr
by Thomas Hauerslev
Cinerama and Todd-AO at the Syossett
by Jo Kelley
The Big And The Little Image
By Bill Cobbs
Working for Louis deRochemont
By Borden Mace
The Birth of the Todd-AO Process
by Dr. Brian O´Brien
The Original First-Week Engagements Of “Star Wars”
By Mike Coate
The Original 70mm engagements Of
"Close Encounters Of The Third Kind"
By Coate and Kallay
The Original 70mm engagements
Of "Alien"
By Coate and Kallay |
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10 YEARS AGO - 1998 |
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3 Falke Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark
- The First Todd-AO Theatre in Scandinavia
Life With THX In Hollywood Part 2
Time Traveling to the New Neon
"Mulan" in 70mm at the
Hollywood Bowl
A "Titanic" Day Out
..in 70mm in Aalborg. A 70mm
get together at "Biffen"
Jan Jacobsen - His Story
Pik-A-Movie
"Ryan´s Daughter" Revisited
The Biggest format in the Smallest
Cinema
ABC Shaftsbury Avenue 1+2,
London, England
The Miracle of Todd-AO Final
review May 1, 1956
Obituary - Jan
Jacobsen
Jan Jacob Kotte |
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14 YEARS AGO - 1994 |
65mm
Todd-AO Concept Tests
Biffen -
70mm cinema profile
The
70mm Promotion Tour 1994 Part #1 |
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IN70MM.COM STAFF:
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Thomas Hauerslev (Copenhagen, Denmark), chief editor
and generally in charge of everything
Bill Lawrence (Halifax, United Kingdom), Widescreen
Weekend organizer and in charge of communication
Paul Rayton (Hollywood, USA), chief proof reader and
industry liason |
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WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT IN70MM.COM
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Dear Thomas,
... thank god for your love and enthusiasm for your subject - Stanley [Kubrick] would have liked you!
Very best,
Leon Vitali, England (11.02.2003)
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Dear Thomas,
You are making a remarkable contribution to 70mm history. Your vast research and reporting on the subject are
extraordinary.
Congratulations and please accept my encouragement to continue your
exceptional endeavor.
Best wishes, Dick Vetter, USA (28.09.2002)
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70MM FILMS NOW AND THEN
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 "Samsara"
in 65mm
By Mark Magidson
Ron Fricke will photograph in 65mm using both standard
frame rates and a motion control time-lapse camera designed
specifically for this project. |
 "Where
The Trains Used To Go" in IMAX
By Morten Skallerud
I love trains, Large Format, and making magic on film. "Where the Trains used to go"
gave me an opportunity to combine the three for a 4½ minute
15perf 70mm |
 "As
Good as it Gets" 70mm Demo
By Rick Mitchell
I had not seen new 65mm material for years. This looked
TERRIFIC! The detail was breathtaking. Little grain was visible,
from the seventh row. |
 "A
Year Along the Abandoned Road"
By Morten Skallerud
A nature animation film - a time-lapse film in one single
shot. See the Arctic year passing by at 50,000 times normal
speed |
 Vistamorph
- alternative to 65mm
By Chris O'Kane
Vistamorph can produce spectacular wide screen films and
emulates Cinerama in scale |
 Super Dimension 70
By Bob Weisgerber
A new, improved 70mm presentation process which is 70mm film, with the
usual aspect ratio and projected at 48 frames per second. |
 "Tour
Eiffel" 70mm short
By Veit Helmer
Lulu fulfils his life’s dream: he buys a bright red sports car. From
the top of the Eiffel Tower, he can only watch as his car is being
stolen. |
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THE 70MM RUMOUR MILL
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JULY2008
There are no good rumors in July, so, here's a summer joke
until something turns up
Q: How many 70mm fans does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Seven: One to install the new bulb, and six to complain
that the lightbulbs were much better 40 years ago
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JUNE 2008
New 70mm print of "Sky over Holland"
is in the pipeline.
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MAY 2008
New 70mm print of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
is in the pipeline. New 70mm print of
"Khartoum" shown
18.05.2008.
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APRIL 2008
Some scenes for "Quantum of Solace" are
filmed in 65mm.
Update: The new Bond film didn't shot
anything in 65mm. Its been shot Super 35 using Arricams and Zeiss Ultra Prime lenses,
apart from a short sequence where they used 8 Dalsa Origin 4K cameras.
John Holland
Lighting Cameraman
London
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MARCH 2008
Martin Scorsese is using 65mm
cameras on his new film "Shutter Island".
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65/70MM WORKSHOP
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 Report
on the 65/70mm Workshop March 2008
By 65/70mm Workshop
Key themes around quality control in the cinema and the
need for cinema to offer an experience far surpassing that
increasingly available in the home. |
 Exhibitor's
Toolkit: Re-awakening "dormant" 35/70mm machines
By 65/70mm Workshop
A guide to re-activate 70mm capability, using existing
35/70mm equipment currently configured for 35mm-only. |
 Upgrading systems to 9-Channel [5 Stage, 3
Surround, 1 Sub]
By 65/70mm Workshop
A concept for the practical application of a new
9-channel (8.1) sound format across 70mm and other
theatrical exhibition platforms. |
 Time To Wake The Sleeping Giant - Take 2
By 65/70mm Workshop
Keeping the theme of "Waking the Sleeping Giant" well to the
fore, let us look at this from the Exhibitor’s point of view.
Three main questions often spring to mind.
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 65/70mm Economics
By 65/70mm Workshop
The additional $700,000 to shoot 65mm thus represented an
increase of just 2.4% over the cost of shooting on 35mm |
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OTHER THAN 70MM
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 "Keepers
of the Frame"
By Randy Gitsch
The documentary to examine the history, science and struggles of those committed to film
preservation. |
 The
Poster Art of Howard Terpning
A Pictorial Presentation
See the gallery of classic posters |
 About
Sensurround
Presenting "Earthquake" in
Bradford
By Darren Briggs
How
Sensurround got me through college
By Greg Battas |
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COMING SOON
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Presentation notes for "Doors", "Born on the 4th of July", "Die
Hard II", "Spaceballs" and "Barry Lyndon" |
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Dick Babish:
Dave Strohmaier:
National
Media Museum
Schauburg Cinerama
Gulliver
35mm-65/70mm Laboratories
