“Almost like a real web site”
| IN7OMM.COM
• Search | Contact
• News | e-News |
• Rumour Mill | Stories
• Foreign Language
• in70mm.com auf Deutsch
WHAT'S ON IN 7OMM?
7OMM FESTIVAL
• Todd-AO Festival
• KRRR! 7OMM Seminar
• GIFF 70, Gentofte
• Oslo 7OMM Festival
• Widescreen Weekend
TODD-AO
• Premiere | Films
• People | Equipment
• Library | Cinemas
• Todd-AO Projector
• Distortion Correcting
|  | VISION, SCOPE & RAMA
1926 Natural Vision
1929 Grandeur
1930 Magnifilm
1930 Realife
1930 Vitascope
1952 Cinerama
1953 CinemaScope
1955 Todd-AO
1955 Circle Vision 360
1956 CinemaScope 55
1957 Ultra Panavision 70
1958 Cinemiracle
1958 Kinopanorama
1959 Super Panavision 70
1959 Super Technirama 70
1960 Smell-O-Vision
1961 Sovscope 70
1962 Cinerama 360
1962 MCS-70
1963 70mm Blow Up
1963 Circarama
1963 Circlorama
1966 Dimension 150
1966 Stereo-70
1967 DEFA 70
1967 Pik-A-Movie
1970 IMAX / Omnimax
1974 Cinema 180
1974 SENSURROUND
1976 Dolby Stereo
1984 Showscan
1984 Swissorama
1986 iWERKS
1989 ARRI 765
1990 CDS
1994 DTS / Datasat
2001 Super Dimension 70
2018 Magellan 65
• Various Large format | 70mm to 3-strip | 3-strip to 70mm | Specialty Large Format | Special Effects in 65mm | ARC-120 | Early Large Format
• 7OMM Premiere in Chronological Order
7OMM FILM & CINEMA
• Australia | Brazil
• Canada | Denmark
• England | France
• Germany | Iran
• Mexico | Norway
• Sweden | Turkey
• USA
LIBRARY
• 7OMM Projectors
• People | Eulogy
• 65mm/70mm Workshop
• The 7OMM Newsletter
• Back issue | PDF
• Academy of the WSW
7OMM NEWS
• 2026 | 2025 | 2024
• 2023 | 2022 | 2021
• 2020 | 2019 | 2018
• 2017 | 2016 | 2015
• 2014 | 2013 | 2012
• 2011 | 2010 | 2009
• 2008 | 2007 | 2006
• 2005 | 2004 | 2003
• 2002 | 2001 | 2000
• 1999 | 1998 | 1997
• 1996 | 1995 | 1994
| in70mm.com Mission:
• To record the history of the large format movies and the 70mm cinemas as remembered by the people who worked with the films. Both during making and during running the films in projection rooms and as the audience, looking at the curved screen.
• in70mm.com, a unique internet based magazine, with articles about 70mm cinemas, 70mm people, 70mm films, 70mm sound, 70mm film credits, 70mm history and 70mm technology. Readers and fans of 70mm are always welcome to contribute.
• Disclaimer | Updates
• Support us
• Testimonials
• Table of Content
| | | | | Extracts and longer parts of in70mm.com may be reprinted with the written permission from the editor.
Copyright © 1800 - 2070. All rights reserved.
Visit biografmuseet.dk about Danish cinemas
|
| | “Five Hundred Summer Stories”
Greg MacGillivray’s Visual Memoir, “Five Hundred Summer Stories,” Chronicles a Life Spent Producing Some of the Most Iconic Documentaries and Giant-Screen IMAX® Films of the Past Five Decades | Read more at
in70mm.com
The 70mm Newsletter
| | Written by: MacGillivray Freeman Films, November 2, 2022 - LAGUNA BEACH, CA | Date: 05.03.2024 |  The filmmaker of the classic surf film Five Summer Stories and pioneer of IMAX® filmmaking shares stories from his adventurous life and groundbreaking career, in Hollywood and beyond.
Greg MacGillivray has led a life like no other, and for the first time, he’s telling his story. MacGillivray Freeman Films and Earth Aware Editions are proud to announce the publication of Greg MacGillivray’s illustrated memoir, FIVE HUNDRED SUMMER STORIES (Earth Aware Editions/Simon & Schuster; Nov. 15, 2022), a fascinating account of MacGillivray’s journey as an artist, a self-made filmmaker and an entrepreneur at the head of MacGillivray Freeman Films, the most successful documentary production company in history -- and the first to reach the benchmark of $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales.
FIVE HUNDRED SUMMER STORIES also reflects MacGillivray’s unique place in filmmaking history, first as a Southern California surfer kid who made his first film at age 13 and who later revolutionized surf films in the 1970s with the classic "Five Summer Stories" (the book’s title is a riff on this acclaimed surf film), to his years in Hollywood working with such celebrated legends as Stanley Kubrick on "The Shining" and on films such as "Big Wednesday", “The Towering Inferno”, “Blade Runner”, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" and "Koyaanisqatsi", to his work pioneering 70mm IMAX filmmaking, creating some of the most memorable, groundbreaking IMAX cinematography and many of the most celebrated and enduring educational giant-screen films, including Everest, the most successful IMAX documentary film of all time. There are stories of almost dying in New Guinea, flying into eyes of hurricanes, the perils of shooting in the USSR, and how making "Everest" changed his life.
| More in 70mm reading:
in70mm.com's page about IMAX & Omnimax
in70mm.com's Library
Presented on the big screen in 7OMM
Peripheral Vision, Scopes, Dimensions and Panoramas
|  The book is also a story about MacGillivray’s deep commitment to family, to ocean conservation, and to raising awareness about the importance of protecting our natural world.“I have been incredibly fortunate to have turned my passion for filmmaking into a lifelong career, and my hope is that FIVE HUNDRED SUMMER STORIES has something for everyone—surfers, Hollywood aficionados, business entrepreneurs, film students and devoted fans of documentaries and giant-screen IMAX films,” said Greg MacGillivray. “It has been an honor to make films that inspire people around the world with the miraculous beauty of our planet.’”
Illustrated with more than 500 photographs and filmmaking artifacts from MacGillivray’s extensive archive, as well as story contributions by legendary surfers Gerry Lopez, Corky Carroll and Bill Hamilton, and filmmakers Stephen Judson, Howard Hall and Brad Ohlund, FIVE HUNDRED SUMMER STORIES also features 40 QR codes linked to exclusive behind-the-scenes video content, film clips, interviews and neverbefore-seen footage, giving even more depth and perspective to this amazing journey.
A dedicated environmentalist, MacGillivray is donating his book proceeds to the non-profit ocean conservation groups Surfrider Foundation, Oceana, and One World One Ocean.
• Go to PDF 500 Summer Stories, Gregs book press release
• Go to PDF MacGillivray Freeman Films filmography, 2020
• Go to Omnimax in Copenhagen. Tycho Brahe Planetarium, 7OMM 1989 - 2020
• Go to Tycho Brahe Planetarium, IMAX advertising
More About Greg MacGillivray
Greg MacGillivray is one of the most prolific and successful documentary filmmakers of all time, with more than 60 films to his credit. In the 1960s, he partnered with Jim Freeman to form MacGillivray Freeman Films and together they made a series of surfing films, including their classic "Five Summer Stories", before going on to work in Hollywood as aerial cinematography specialists. After Jim’s untimely death in 1976 on the eve of the premiere of "To Fly!", their first IMAX documentary together, Greg devoted his career to making giant-screen documentaries and has since shot more 70mm film than anyone in cinema history. Greg has received two Academy Award® nominations for Best Documentary Short Subject for "The Living Sea" and "Dolphins" and has three films inducted into the IMAX Hall of Fame. MacGillivray’s films are known for their artistry and celebration of science and the natural world. https://macgillivrayfreeman.com/
Media Contacts:
Lori Rick, MacGillivray Freeman Films
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 
• Go to “Five Hundred Summer Stories” | | Go: back - top - back issues - news index
Updated 05-03-24 | |
|
The filmmaker of the classic surf film Five Summer Stories and pioneer of IMAX® filmmaking shares stories from his adventurous life and groundbreaking career, in Hollywood and beyond.
The book is also a story about MacGillivray’s deep commitment to family, to ocean conservation, and to raising awareness about the importance of protecting our natural world.