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Walter Siegmund Interview Working for Mike Todd Working for Todd-AO The International Newsletter About 70mm Film www.in70mm.com Issue 70, March 2005, Vol. 17 ....iinn 7700mmmm THE 70MM NEWSLETTER 1955 WWaalltteerr SSiieeggmmuunndd IInntteerrvviieeww WWoorrkkiinngg ffoorr MMiikkee TToodddd WWoorrkkiinngg ffoorr TToodddd--AAOO Issue 70. March 2005. Vol. 17. Page 1. The International Newsletter About 70mm Film THE 70MM NEWSLETTER iiinnn777000mmmmmm...cccooommm Widescreen Weekend 2005 Issue 70, March 10 - 14, 2005, Vol 17 Index of Issue 70 From The Editor 2005 Widescreen Weekend Thomas Hauerslev, Copenhagen, Denmark Page 3 Walter Siegmund Interviewed Program Page 12 Working for Mike Todd Dear Widescreen Weekend Guest, Page 15 Working for Todd-AO Studios Thursday March 10 2005 Page 18 Outline of the Todd-AO Process by This is another special edition of The 14:00 “STAR!” in Todd-AO Dr. Brian O´Brien 70mm Newsletter published exclusively for 19.45 “Out of Africa” in 70mm and 6-track the 2005 Widescreen Weekend in Bradford, magnetic stereo. In person Oscar Purpose: in70mm.com - The 70mm England to celebrate the 50th anniversary of winners Peter Handford (sound) and Newsletter publishes articles about 70mm the premiere performance of the Todd-AO David Watkin (Cinematography) cinemas, 70mm films, 70mm sound, 70mm system. In this issue I am presenting brand film credits, 70mm history and 70mm new material about Todd-AO, including my Friday 11 March 2005 technology. Articles are by invitation and often 2002 interview with Walter P. Siegmund, one 10:00 “Those Magnificent Men in Their written by subscribers or guest writers. The of the key engineers who developed the Flying Machines” in Todd-AO on the aim is to record the history of the large format Todd-AO process. It tells the story about the curve movies and the 70mm cinemas as early days of Todd-AO and tells the unique 13:00 “Doctor Doolittle” new Todd-AO remembered by the people who worked with story from a very personal angle. A lot of work print with DTS sound on the curve the films. Both during making and during has gone into this interview and I hope you 16.00 Michael Borrows lecture on Gene running the films in projection rooms and as will appreciate it. Kelly the audience, looking at the curved screen. Mrs. Glenda Jensen has written an 17:00 Widescreen Welcome - Reception - Mission: in70mm.com - The 70mm information-filled article about her days with drinks for the weekend delegates Newsletter is continuously building a the Mike Todd office during the release of 18:00 “Baraka” in Todd-AO collection of documentation, 70mm “Around the World in 80 days”. 20:00 “Hello, Dolly!” new Todd-AO print equipment, stills, ads, movie credits and a Finally Mr. Dan Leimeter, retired with DTS sound on the curve complete list of all known movies shown in Todd-AO Studios chief projectionist, has 70mm and 3-panel and filmed in photographic written an article about his work with the Saturday 12 March 2005 processes wider and larger than 4 perf/35mm company. I take great pleasure in publishing 10:00 “Scent of Mystery” in Todd-70 on film. Processes like ARRI 765, Cinema 180, this trio of articles about Todd-AO history. the curve. Jack Cardiff in person Cinemiracle, Cinerama, DEFA 70, Dimension I hope you will enjoy reading this 13:00 “The Early days of Todd-AO” - almost 150, Grandeur, IMAX, Iwerks, MCS-70 Bradford Film Festival 2005 companion. like a real lecture - by the Editor Superpanorama, MGM Camera 65, “Oklahoma!” in Todd-AO opened on 14:30 “How the West Was Won” in 3-strip NaturalVision, OmniVision, Showscan, Broadway in New York City on October 13, Cinerama on the curve Realife, Super Technirama 70, Todd-AO, 1955. Todd-AO is not only big screen and 18:30 Walter Siegmund Q/A about Todd-AO Ultra Panavision 70 etc. audience participation, but also showmanship 19:30 “Oklahoma!” + “Miracle of Todd- Copyright 2005: in70mm.com - The perfected. AO” in Todd-AO on the curve 70mm Newsletter, established in 1988, is occasionally published from the Copenhagen Sunday 13 March 2005 HQ in Denmark. All rights reserved. Titles and 10:00 Cineramacana with Audience on short extracts from articles may be quoted Stage picture, Academy of the provided full and visible credit is given to Widescreen Weekend and Projected in70mm.com - The 70mm Newsletter. Longer Pictures Trust by Dion Hanson parts of in70mm.com - The 70mm Newsletter 13:00 “Amadeus – Directors Cut” in may be reprinted with the written permission Panavision on the flat screen with of the publisher. Words in this issue: 22135 Miroslav Ondricek in person. 16:45 “The Agony and the Ecstasy” new Mailing address: Todd-AO print with DTS sound on the curve The 70mm Newsletter 19:30 “Sound of Music” new Todd-AO print with DTS sound on the curve Att: Thomas Hauerslev Kong Georgs Vej 12, St 2000 Frederiksberg Monday 14 March 2005 10:00 “South Pacific” + “March of Todd- Denmark AO” in Todd-AO on the curve E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.in70mm.com Telefax: +45 3810 3032. Issue 70. March 2005. Vol. 17. Page 2. The International Newsletter About 70mm Film for whatever reason, felt that he couldn’t go. Maybe that was his own way of being a little bit aloof. But in any case it was arranged that I should go in his place and make an evaluation; just to simply tell him “What did I think of it?” Left: Walt in the hot chair, 22 June 2002 in Copenhagen. Behind him is the DP70 and a two-foot model of a Todd-AO screen. Well the fact is, I can’t think of the exact timing, but I think I went in the latter part of the day. I met with Mike Todd, Jr., in New York City, and then he took me out to one of his friend’s houses somewhere outside the city. Then we went back that evening to have a wonderful steak dinner at a famous restaurant whose name I should remember [Peter Lugars]. They served only steak and sliced tomatoes; they were famous for that I guess. It was some of the razzle-dazzle that the Todds used, to soften you up, so to speak. The following day he escorted me to the [Broadway] theatre where I saw a demonstration of Cinerama. From the top, so to speak, but I was also given the privilege of going to any place in the theatre, observing Effect”, and has to do with the way signals are from whatever location I wished. One of the The Birth Of Todd-AO passed from the eye to the brain. But if you few things Dr. O’Brien asked me to do was to Walter Siegmund interviewed Sunday June use colors, complementary colors say like red measure the screen brightness, and he gave 23, 2002 by Thomas Hauerslev, Copenhagen, and green, then according to the work that me an instrument, which was his own Denmark was done earlier, the reverse occurred, and personal photometer, a very “ancient” that was the anomaly; it was not understood. instrument but also something that was very Edited for clarity by Paul Rayton, Brian It didn’t seem to fit anybody’s understanding conveniently operated. I took a series of O'Brien, Jr., and Walter Siegmund of the process, and so Dr. O’Brien asked me measurements of the screen brightness, as to look into this problem again. I looked into it though that was really important. The Clean up by: John Belton, Martin Hart and for some months; I can’t remember very well important thing, of course, was the overall Dan Sherlock when; it was probably 1951 or 1952. It turns screen quality, and then the complexity of the out that the previous measurements were in system, all of which I reported to him in one Walter P. Siegmund: The 50th anniversary of error and, that if you did it a little more form or another. But when I called him - and I Todd-AO and also [approximately] of my carefully, it was consistent with the black and think he asked me to do this - I did use the employment at American Optical [AO] on white phenomenon and so there were no so- well-known expression “WOW”! And it was a February 6, 1953. Actually Todd-AO could be called reversed Sherrington effect, which wow-situation. No question about it, because considered to have begun with the fateful cleared up the problem. at that time I was very intrigued with of all meeting in 1952 between Mike Todd and Dr. I don’t know if that impressed Dr. kinds of motion pictures, and to see this O'Brien at the Rochester (NY) airport, where I O’Brien, but in any case he was very pleased demonstration was very special. It was the was the silent witness. to have this problem resolved. Then, in late best I’d seen of any motion picture, and Who would have thought then that 1952 he approached me one day, quite by “WOW” was a simple way to express that. movies would again become so popular and surprise, and said: lucrative? Did Todd-AO make the difference? “Walt, I’m going to go to the American What were your main It would be nice to think so! Optical Company in Southbridge, responsibilities with the development of Massachusetts to head up their R&D; would Todd-AO at American Optical? Question: Tell me about your you be interested in joining me? Leaving the Well, it is getting a little hard to background and how you got involved in University and going there and working for me remember, but one of the things I was asked American Optical and Todd-AO.
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