AN OPEN LETTER TO VISIONARY FILMMAKERS
More and more, leading Creative Artists in Cinema today - and Audiences at Box Offices around the world - appreciate and understand the value of large format origination and presentation.
65mm brings detail, clarity and subtlety to the moving image. It draws the audience in, greatly enhancing the cinematic experience.
Having successfully integrated 65mm sequences into your most recent films, we now suggest you consider taking the next step and to shoot your next project entirely in this high-quality wide format.
A full 65mm feature opens the exciting possibility of even better IMAX prints, as well as - for the first time since Kenneth Branagh's "Hamlet" in 1996 - the possibility of audiences without access to IMAX cinemas being able to experience the splendour of traditional 70mm prints.
As is well-known today, modern 70mm prints are accompanied by full-range digital audio, and thanks to modern film stocks, look more spectacular than ever. Many cinemas around the world retain 70mm capability, and limited, economical 70mm release is a real option today.
With thanks and best wishes
65/70mm Workshop |
| | FOREWORD |  The 65/70mm Workshop is edited and maintained by Ramon Lamarca Marques (England), Brian Guckian (Ireland) and Mike Taylor (England).
Views and opinions are entirely theirs and generally, but not nessesarily, shared by the editor of in70mm.com |
| | WORKSHOP AIMS |  1. To preserve the film experience at its best, with large negative (65mm or wide horizontal 35mm) and prints on 70mm.
2. To serve as a platform and network for everybody, who is interested in 65/70 production, to expose their practical ideas, thoughts, solutions, ...
3. To try and link cinematographers, producers, exhibitors and the film industry in general to drive the viability of production of films in this format.
4. To promote film as an important artistic tool in the history of cinema, which can continue to be used along with other new media.
5. To make possible, in a creative way, the return of the "cinema event presentation" as something unique and separate from other media. | | |
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| | TOP STORIES |  "Inception" in 65mm
By Steve Weintraub
We went to the next best thing which was 65mm. So we have the highest quality image of any film that’s being made. |  65mm - The Versatile Shooting Format
By 65/70mm Workshop
As audiences become more demanding of technical quality there has never been a better time to originate feature film material on 65mm. |  Masking Configuration for 70mm Screens
By 65/70mm Workshop
The importance of screen masking generally should not be underestimated or neglected, as it performs an important technical function in enhancing the contrast of projected images. |  Marketing The Premiere Experience
By 65/70mm Workshop
The Workshop has devised a contemporary logo to support The Premiere Experience branding concept. |  Processors, speakers, amplifiers and wiring
By 65/70mm Workshop
A practical and cost-effective upgrade path for cinemas |  Tab Presentation
By 65/70mm Workshop
Proper curtain tab presentation in cinemas was once commonplace but today has sadly been neglected, along with associated lighting effects that helped create a sense of anticipation in the audience. |
|  We want to hear from you
The 65/70mm Workshop online is a unique opportunity for you to make your input into the technical, financial and marketing aspects of the project.
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Whether you work in production, post-production, exhibition, distribution, or are an avid supporter of 65/70mm, we always want to hear from you - please get in touch with Ramon Lamarca Marques, Brian Guckian and Mike Taylor. Letters will be published in our feedback section.
THANK YOU!
With thanks to in70mm.com and the Widescreen Weekend | | |
| | FEED BACK SECTION - TELL US WHAT YOU THINK! |  12.03.2010 - USA
This is in regards to bringing back 70 mm film presentation in the theater. I think it’s a great idea. I always loved 70 mm and I feel bad that the young generation hasn’t been able to experience it. I took my Kids to see "Shutter Island", Martin Scorsese’s new film that was shot in both 35 mm & 70 mm and the kids loved it. Full letter | 21.05.2009 - Australia
I enjoyed reading your Tab Presentation and always remembered that only old run down theatres didn't have a curtain to protect the screen, they always had masking though. Full letter
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| | WORK TOPICS - MAKE YOUR CONTRIBUTION! |  Right now, the 65/70mm Workshop is concentrating on these Work Topics:
65/70mm Economics
65mm and Visual F/X
EXHIBITOR'S TOOLKIT
Tech package for re-awakening "dormant" 35/70mm machines
New Projector Install
- Recovering costs of displaced equipment
- Equipment type
 Sound:
- Upgrading systems to 9-Channel [5 Stage, 3 Surround, 1 Sub]
- Processors, speakers, amplifiers and wiring
- Other
Screen:
- Masking Configuration
- Screen surface type and curvature
- Tab Presentation
- Other
Auditorium:
- Upgrade strategies
- Design
Projection:
- Film Handling
- Shipping Techniques and Costs
- Staffing & Training
- Theatrical Presentation
Feel free to contribute ideas and opinions to any of these areas. We will add or remove Work Topics as they are dealt with. Please refer to the other pages here for guidance and inspiration! |
| | THE 65/70MM WORKSHOP IN PRINT |  A Paper summarising many of the topics covered by the Workshop since 2006 was recently published by the British Kinematograph Sound & Television Society in their journal Cinema Technology (December 2009 and March 2010), and also by International 70mm Publishers, The Netherlands in their new book "Digital & 65mm": Today's Technology for Tomorrow's Cinema (Johan Wolthuis, 2010).
The Paper, entitled Waking the Sleeping Giant, also carries an account of the Vistamorph(R) process by Chris O'Kane.
Our thanks to the BKSTS and to International 70mm Publishers, The Netherlands. | | |
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