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| Written, Performed and organized by: Herbert Born & Thomas Hauerslev, Schauburg Cinerama Theatre, Karlsruhe, Germany | Date:
04.10.2007 Updated 21-01-24 |
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For
three days in October 2007,
the famous German Cinerama cinema "Filmtheater Schauburg" in
Karlsruhe, presents a
dozen classic film epics in the king of all film formats: 70mm.
This is a High Definition movie experience with extremely sharp images and
crystal clear 6 track stereo. This is
a BIG weekend, in the BIG film format on our a
BIG screen. Be a part of this unique event and share the excitement together with visitors from all around the world -
including Germany, Denmark, England, USA and France - and hopefully many
more. Be a part of the action. Feel the "illusion of reality" and “The first person experience” from the front row in the impressive super 70mm format. Celebrate with us when we present the films in the original format, where they were meant to be seen - on a huge 136 square meters curved Cinerama screen, in a traditional road show cinema. 70mm film is an experience unlike anything you have ever seen. The Schauburg Cinerama is one of the few surviving cinemas, with 70mm projectors, a red curtain and the huge curved and wide 70mm screen. It’s the perfect framework for the presentation of 70mm with 6-track sound. Some films are in original versions and some "70mm Vintage Classics" are dubbed into German. The 2007 Weekend program will be a variety of old 70mm films with a GALA performance on Saturday evening celebrating the world of 70mm film. Traditional breakfast and lunch functions Saturday and Sunday. Around the world in Three Days on the curved Cinerama screen. Everything is included - in the majestic 70mm format at the Schauburg cinema in Karlsruhe. • 3rd. Todd-AO festival Reviews • Wolfram Hannemann and Paul Rayton's introductions |
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Weekend 70mm Program & Breaks | |
 Friday, 5. October"Taras Bulba" (122 min). 12:00 – 14:02. "Imperial Venus" (140 min). 14:30 – 16:50. "Pathfinder" (86 min). 17:15 – 18:41. “Khartoum” (134 min). 20:00 – 22:14 + intermission (22:30). "Get together" With HOEPFNER & friends. 22.15 - Open End + Dieter Connemann book-release party Saturday, 6 October 09:00 Breakfast buffet before the 10 o'clock show "The King and I" (133 min) 10:00 – 12:13 + intermission (12:28). “Ben Hur” (212 min) 12:45 – 16:17 + intermission (16:32). "Uncle Toms Cabin" (125 min) 17:00 – 19:05. "Ice Station Zebra" (148 min) 20:15 – 22:43 + intermission (22:58). "2001: A Space Odyssey" (141 min) 23:15 – 01:36 + intermission (01:45). Sunday, 7 October 09:00 Breakfast buffet before the 10 o'clock show Exhibition: Rare Lenses + 65mm camera Shorts & surprises 10:00 – 10:30 "The Wonderful World of Film Formats" hand made lecture by Thomas Hauerslev 10:30 – 11:00 Demonstration: Digital State of the Art – incl. „As Good as it Gets“ in digital and 70mm 11:30 - 12:00 Restoration of “Play Time” Lecture by Monsieur Jean-Rene FAILLOT “Play Time" (126 min). 12:00 – 14:06. “El Cid” (182 min) 15:30 – 18:32 + intermission (18:45). "The Wild Bunch" (134 min) 19:30 – 21:44. | |
Todd-AO Festival Program Film Information | |
 "Taras Bulba" (122 min). 12:00 – 14:02. Filmed in: 35mm 4
perforations, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in:
Panavision. Presented on the curved screen in an original
English 70mm
blow up print with 6-channel magnetic sound. Aspect ratio:
2,21:1. Country of origin: Yugoslavia / USA. Production year:
1962.Tony Curtis (Andrei Bulba), Yul Brynner (Taras Bulba), Sam Wanamaker (Filipenko), Brad Dexter (Shilo), Guy Rolfe (Prince Grigory) Producer: Harold Hecht. Director: J. Lee Thompson. Photography: Joseph MacDonald. Music by: Franz Waxman. Originally premiere in London 4. April 1963, Odeon Haymarket. Introduced by Wolfram Hannemann and Thomas Rübenacker. |
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 "Imperial Venus" (140 min). 14:30 – 16:50
+ intermission (17:05). Filmed in: 35mm 8
perforations, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in: Technirama.
Presented on the curved screen in an original German
Super Technirama 70
print with 6-channel magnetic sound. Aspect ratio: 2,21:1. Country of
origin: Italy/France. Production year: 1963.Elsa Albani (Pianista), Aldo Berti (Moribondo a Santo Domingo), Stephen Boyd (Jules de Canouville), Gabriele Ferzetti (Freron), Gina Lollobrigida (Paulette Bonaparte) Director: Jean Delannoy. Photography: Gábor Pogány. Music by: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino. Originally premiere 1962. |
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 Exhibition - camera's and lensesThomas Hauerslev and the ARRI 765 camera. Arnold & Richter is exhibiting the ARRI 765 65mm camera, thanks to Thomas Popp – Director Sales @ Arnold & Richter, Munich. |
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 "Pathfinder" (86 min). 17:15 – 18:41. Filmed in: 35mm 4 perforations,
24 frames per second. Principal photography in: Panavision. Presented on the
curved screen in an original blow up
70mm print with 6-track Dolby Stereo and English subtitles. Aspect
ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: Norway. Production year: 1987.Producer: John M. Jacobsen. Director: Nils Gaup. Photography: Erling Thurmann-Andersen. Music by: Kjetil Bjerkestrand, Marius Müller & Nils-Aslak Valkeapää. Mikkel Gaup (Aigin), Ingvald Guttorm (Aigin's Father), Nils Utsi (Raste), Henrik H. Buljo (Dorakas), Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (Siida-Isit). Originally premiered 30. September 1987 in Norway. 3 70mm prints were struck. One for Sweden, England and Norway, subtitled for each country. 70mm print curtsey Norsk Filminstitut. |
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 “Khartoum”
(134 min) 20:00 – 22:14 + intermission (22:30). Filmed in: 65mm 5 perforations, 24 frames
per second. Principal photography in:
Ultra Panavision 70. Presented
on the curved screen in an original rectified German Ultra
Panavision 70 Cinerama print with 6-channel magnetic sound. Aspect
ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: USA. Production year: 1966.Director: Basil Dearden. Photography: Edward Scaife. Music by: Frank Cordell. Charlton Heston (Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon), Laurence Olivier (The Mahdi), Richard Johnson (Col. J.D.H. Stewart), Ralph Richardson (William Gladstone), Alexander Knox (Sir Evelyn Baring) Originally premiere in London 9. June 1966, Casino Cinerama. |
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 "Get together" With HOEPFNER & friends. 22.15 - Open End |
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 Breakfast buffet.
Picture by Herbert Born.09.00 Saturday morning in the Schauburg-foyer (incl. in weekend-pass) A Schauburg tradition served every Saturday and Sunday weekend mornings. |
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 "The
King and I" (133 min) 10:00 – 12:13 + intermission (12:28). Filmed in:
55mm 8 perforations, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in:
CinemaScope 55. Presented on the curved screen in an original Grandeur 70
print with 6-channel magnetic sound. Aspect ratio: 2,21:1. Country of
origin: USA. Production year: 1956. Deborah Kerr (Anna Leonowens), Yul Brynner (King Mongkut of Siam), Rita Moreno (Tuptim), Martin Benson (Kralahome), Marni Nixon (Anna (singing voice)) Producer: Charles Brackett. Director: Walter Lang. Photography: Leon Shamroy. Music by: Richard Rodgers. Presented in 70mm with the collaboration of National Media Museum, Bradford, England. Originally premiere at the ROXY, in New York, USA 28. June 1956. 70mm version premiered 23. March 1961 at the Rivoli in New York, USA. |
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 “Ben
Hur” (212 min) 12:45 – 16:17 + intermission (16:32). Filmed in: 65mm 5 perforations, 24
frames per second. Principal photography in: Camera 65. Presented on
the curved screen in an original German Camera 65 70mm print with
6-channel magnetic sound. Aspect ratio: 2,76:1. Country of origin:
USA. Production year: 1959. Director: William Wyler. Photography: Robert Surtees. Music by: Miklos Rozsa. Charlton Heston (Judah Ben-Hur), Jack Hawkins (Quintus Arrius), Haya Harareet (Esther), Stephen Boyd (Messala) and Hugh Griffith (Sheik Ilderim) Originally premiere in New York, USA 18. November 1959, State Theatre. Introduced by Thomas Rübenacker. |
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 "Uncle Toms Cabin"
(125 min) 17:00 – 19:05 + intermission (19:20). Filmed in: 65mm
5 perforations, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in:
MCS-70 Superpanorama. Presented on the
curved screen in an original German MCS-70 Superpanorama print
with 6-channel magnetic sound. Aspect ratio: 2,21:1. Country of
origin: France / Italy / West Germany / Yugoslavia. Production
year: 1965.John Kitzmiller (Uncle Tom), Herbert Lom (Simon Legree), Olive Moorefield (Cassy), O.W. Fischer (Saint-Claire), Catana Cayetano (Eliza) Producer: Aldo von Pinelli. Director: Géza von Radványi. Photography: Heinz Hölscher. Music by: Peter Thomas. Originally premiere 14. April 1965, The Matthäser-Palast, Munich, Germany |
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 "Ice
Station Zebra" (148 min) 20:15 – 22:43 + intermission
(22:58). Filmed
in: 65mm 5 perforations, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in:
Super Panavision 70.Presented in  on the curved screen in an original German
Super Panavision 70 Cinerama print with 6-channel magnetic sound. Aspect
ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: USA. Production year: 1969.Rock Hudson (Cdr. James Ferraday), Ernest Borgnine (Boris Vaslov), Patrick McGoohan (David Jones), Jim Brown (Capt. Leslie Anders), Tony Bill (Lt. Russell Walker) Producer: Martin Ransohoff. Director: John Sturges. Photography: Daniel L. Fapp. Music by: Michel Legrand. Originally premiere 23. October 1968, Cinerama Dome, LA, USA |
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 "2001:
A Space Odyssey" (141 min) 23:15 – 01:36 + intermission (01:45). Filmed
in: 65mm 5 perforations, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in:
Super Panavision 70.Presented in on the curved screen in an original German
Super Panavision 70 Cinerama print with 6-channel magnetic sound. Aspect
ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: USA. Production year: 1969.Keir Dullea (Dr. Dave Bowman), Gary Lockwood (Dr. Frank Poole), William Sylvester (Dr. Heywood R. Floyd), Daniel Richter (Moon-Watcher), Leonard Rossiter (Dr. Andrei Smyslov), Douglas Rain (HAL 9000 (voice)) Produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. Cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth. Originally premiere 2. April 1968, Uptown, Washington, USA |
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Sunday 7. October 2007 Breakfast buffet 09.00 Schauburg-foyer (incl. in weekend-pass) |
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 10:00 – 10:30 "The Wonderful World of Film Formats" hand
made lecture by Thomas HauerslevIncluding "Listen" in 35mm Dolby Stereo and "ClearVision 2000" in 70mm DTS ES. + Todd-AO 1953 test footage in 65mm |
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 Shorts & surprises - the Sunday morning showfollowed by "As Good as it Gets“ (6 min). Filmed in: 65mm 5 perforations, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in: ARRI 765. Presented on the curved screen in 70mm. Aspect ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: USA. Production year: 2006. Producer: Brad English, Jr. Director/Cameraman: Bill Bennett, ASC. With Katherine Beer and Jen Johnson. 70mm demo courtesy Bill Bennett |
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 Lecture by Monsieur Jean-Rene FAILLIOT
11:30 - 12:00 Restoration of
“Play Time” |
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 “Play
Time" (126 min) 12:00 - 14:06. Filmed in: 65mm 5 perforations, 24
frames per second. Principal photography in: Mitchell 65mm cameras.
“Play Time”
(restored)
Presented on the curved screen in 70mm with 6-channel DTS sound. Aspect
ratio: 1,80:1. Country of origin:
France. Production year: 1967. Director: Jacques Tati. Photography: Jean Badal & Andréas Winding. Music by: Francis Lemarque. Jacques Tati (Monsieur Hulot), Barbara Dennek (Young Tourist), Rita Maiden (Mr. Schultz's Companion (as Rita Maïden)), France Rumilly (Woman Selling Eyeglasses), France Delahalle (Shopper in Department Store) Presented in 70mm with the collaboration of Filmmuseum Amsterdam. Originally premiered 17. December 1967, Empire Cinerama, Paris, France |
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 Herbert
Born explaining the nature of a CinemaScope lensAn exhibition of rare projection and photographing lenses. |
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 “El
Cid” (182 min) 15:30 – 18:32 + intermission (18:45). Filmed in: 35mm 8 perforations, 24
frames per second. Principal photography in: Technirama. Presented
on the curved screen in an original German
Super Technirama 70 print
with 6-channel magnetic sound. Aspect ratio: 2,21:1. Country of
origin: USA. Production year: 1961.Director: Anthony Mann. Photography: Robert Krasker. Music by: Miklos Rozsa. Charlton Heston (El Cid), Sophia Loren Jimena), Raf Vallone (Count Ordóñez), Geneviève Page (Princess Urraca), John Fraser (Prince Alfonso) Originally premiered 6. December 1961, Metropole, London, England |
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 "The Wild Bunch" (134 min) 19:30 – 21:44. Filmed in: 35mm
4 perforations, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in:
Panavision. Presented on the curved screen in an original German
blow up
70mm
print with 6-track magnetic Stereo. Aspect ratio: 2,21:1.
Country of origin: USA. Production year: 1969.William Holden (Pike Bishop), Ernest Borgnine (Dutch Engstrom), Robert Ryan (Deke Thornton), Edmond O'Brien (Freddie Sykes), Warren Oates (Lyle Gorch) Producer: Phil Feldman. Director: Sam Peckinpah. Photography: Lucien Ballard. Music by: Jerry Fielding. Originally premiered 29. January 1970, Warner, London, England |
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The Schauburg Cinerama's practical information | |
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The
Dorint Hotel, Karlsruhe. Weekend pass is EURO 80,00. Single entrance EUR 9 per show, students EUR 6,00 and children EUR 4,00. Weekendpass for students is Euro 65,00. The weekend pass includes entrance to all movies of the festival. The weekend pass includes no accommodation, but We have an arrangement with a very good hotel just around the corner of the cinema. The price per night is EUR 69 for one peron and EUR 82 for 2 persons in a superior double-room without breakfast. Complimentary breakfast for weekend pass holders in Schauburg at saturday and sunday mornings. The weekend pass also includes the following additional bonus:
Hotel reservations can be made through
Herbert Born or
directly at the hotel +49 721 35260. Please remember to ask
for the special "Schauburg-Festival" rate. |
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2007 Credits. The organisers wish to thank the following individuals for their help | |
 The
Todd-AO 70mm Festival is generously supported by the Georg Fricker
StiftungVincent Koch, Projection, Preparation prints |
• Go to
How Georg Fricker became
the owner and operator of the last of Karlsruhe’s “picture palaces”. • Wie Georg Fricker übernahm Karlsruhes letzten Kinopalast |
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