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 70mm frame blow up from "The Witness". Picture supplied by Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center.
Original
title:
The Witness. The Pequot War of 1636-1638. Filmed in: 65mm, 5 perforations, 24 frames per second. Principal
cinematography filmed in: Arriflex ARRI 765. A hand held 65mm Panavision
HSHR camera was also used. Presentation
format: 70mm and six track DTS Sound. Aspect
ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin:
USA. Year of production: 1997. Released
by: “The Witness” is not generally released. World
premiere (Release date): July 31, 1998. Premiere
cinemas: Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center.
Producer:
Kieth Merrill, George Burdeau. Director:
Kieth Merrill, George Burdeau. Screenplay:
Kieth Merrill. Director of
photography: T. C. Christensen. Film
editor: Kathleen Korth. Music:
Merrill Jensen. Location Sound:
Andy Wiskes. Sound Design:
Michael McDonough. Production
Designer: Richard Jameson. Set
decorator: Les Boothe.
Key
Make up:
Greg Moon. Stunt Co-ordinator:
Loren Janes. Costume Design: Kathrine
Warner. Propmaster: Lisa Eagar. Makeup:
Greg Moon. Stunt Coordinator: Loren Janes. Special Effects: Mack Chapman. Casting:
Rene'
Haynes. Wrangler:
Rick
Reed. Language Consultant: Wayne
Newell Cast (role): Edward Spears
(Wampishe), T. Dan Hopkins (Old Wampishe), Steve Valentine (John Endicott),
Crystal Nava (Wampishe Sister), Jill Scott Momaday (Pequot Mother), Flint
Eagle (Kipoquam), Santos Hawk's Blood (Uncas), Ian Goodwin (Chaplin Stone),
Monte Deer (Narrangansett Sachem), Kapri Monet (Captured English Girl),
George Hummingbird (Sassacus), Joe Inscoe (John Mason), Casey Camp Horinek
(Wampishe Mother), Jon Tindle (Treaty Officer). Narrator:
Billy Day Dodge. Production company:
Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center. Executive producer: Theresa Hayward Bell, Jack Campisi, Kevin
McBride. Line producer: Jeff
Miller. Co-Producer: Hanay
Geiogamah. First
Assistant director: J.B. Rogers. Property
master: Lisa Egger. Post
Production Supervision: Rick Gordon, RPG Productions. First assistant cameramen: Gordon Huston, Zep Christensen. Focus
pullers: Zep Christensen, Gordon Huston and Eddie Rodriquez. B
Camera Operator: George Griner. Steadicam
Operator: Jeff Mart. Gaffer:
Rhett Fernsten. Key Grip: Matt
Stelling. Locatipon: Tennessee
and Maryland, USA. Filmstock:
Eastman Kodak 65mm 5248, 5279 and 5293
for daylight exposures. 65mm
negative developing & processing: CFI.
Color timer: Ron Wengler. Color
by: CFI. Sound system: Digital Theatre System. 70mm running time: 32 minutes and 29 seconds.
Various notes about the
film: “The Witness” is shown with Strong Century 35/70 projectors in
two 110 seat cinemas on 45 x 25 feet (13,7 x 7,6 m) curved screens as part
of the permanent exhibits of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research
Center. “The Witness” was commissioned by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal
Nation specifically for the Museum. “The Witness” can be seen every day
at: Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, 110 Pequot Trail, PO
Box 3180, Mashantucket, CT 06339, USA. Phone: +1 860-396-6857. Synopsis:
“The Witness” is a half-hour film that dramatizes the events of the
Pequot War, 1636-38, including the massacre of approximately 600 Pequots at
Mystic in 1637. Further reading
reference: in camera, October 1999. The 70mm Newsletter,
Issue 60, March 2000.
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Further in 70mm reading:
Filming
of "The Witness"
A review of "The Witness"
Internet link:
Mashantucket
Pequot Museum and Research Center
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