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CHNOLOGY FOR TOM TODAY’S TE ORROW’S CINEMA

History and Development of 70mm

International 70mm Publishers, The Netherlands Introduction of this Kinepolis complex has 1000 seats and a screen of 24 x 10 metres (948 x 395 inches)! And all those large screens will be served for the time being with In October 1955 ’s musical Oklahoma! premiered ‘old fashioned’ 35mm prints but mostly with 2K or 4K digital images. But the in the USA as the first movie in the spectacularTodd-AO 70mm process with other way to get a bright and sharp image on those large screens is the use of 6-channel magnetic stereo sound! Since that year more than 60 motion pictures unsurpassed ‘original’ new 70mm prints or digital images originated from new were filmed with original 65mm cameras and projected with 70mm film, thus 65mm negatives! creating 5mm extra space for the six magnetic sound tracks. In 1989 the restoration of the famous David Lean filmLAWRENCE OF ARABIA Among these movies were famous titles like: with new excellent 70mm prints wrote film history! In 1991Spartacus was Around the World in 80 Days, Porgy and Bess, Ben-Hur, Exodus, West Side restored in Super Technirama 70. And in 1994 a 70mm restoration of My Fair Story, Lawrence of Arabia, Cleopatra, My Fair Lady, The Fall of the Roman Lady at its 30th Anniversary, proved the quality of this great musical. Nothing Empire, The Sound of Music, 2001 - A Space Odyssey, Chitty Chitty Bang happened until 2002, when there was an unexpected revival in to- Bang, Ryan’s Daughter, Hello Dolly, etc. wards classic 70mm film presentation. For the first time since years, new 70mm prints of Sound of Music, Patton, Hello Dolly and were screened Since 1964 filming on 65mm diminished mostly because of a new ‘blow-up’ in Los Angeles and other large cities throughout the USA. These prints had no process developed by Panavision to make 70mm prints from 35mm negatives. magnetic sound tracks on the film, because of the abandoning of magnetic In the nineties however, a few efforts were made for a rebirth of 65mm filming: striping, but sound on a separate CD-Rom, all in sync with the action by a DTS In 1992 Director and his Director of Photography Mikael Salomon time code on the film. In 2006 we saw new 70mm prints ofLord Jim and the decided to filmFar and Away with System 65 from Panavision, while producer four hour version of Cleopatra, followed in 2008 by Star!, Khartoum and West Mark Magidson and director Ron Fricke were filming their non-verbal documen- Side Story and Flying Clipper in 2009. What’s next ? Which dare-devil director tary filmBaraka in Todd-AO 70mm in 24 countries all around the world. For will shoot his new film with 65mm cameras for 70mm prints and 4K digital nearly two years they used the new Cinespace 70 (Todd-AO) cameras because projection? they offered the most acceptable rent for such a long period. In 1994 Bernardo Bertolucci had taken the decision on the recommendation of his DOP Vittorio Even the original 3-film-strip processCinerama , from the fifties, was back for Storaro to shoot the Asian parts of Little Buddha with Arriflex 65mm cam- the first time in the Dome in Los Angeles and in the restored eras in the Kingdom of Bhutan. The other part of the film was photographed Cinerama Theatre in Seattle with new prints of and How the in 35mm Techniscope, while prints were made in 70mm. Maybe this inspired West Was Won! Since 1993, in Bradford, UK, is the only Kenneth Branagh and his DOP Alex Thomson to shoot their 4-hour version of venue in Europe equipped for showing original 3-strip Cinerama movies.