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Paul H. Rayton
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From: Los Angeles, CA , USA
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 09-30-2006 06:35 PM
Here's another vote for using 70mm prints for such (hypothetical?) venues. It's not so unusual, either! Check the "in70mm.com" website for some specific details, but European exhibitors have done this several times, though not in the last two or 3 years, if I'm not mistaken. The European "Kinopolis" Theatre chain commissioned a few 70mm prints for exhibition on their largest screens. Also, the Oslo {Norway) "Spektrum", a very large venue, hosted several 70mm showings of custom-made prints.
Showmanship doesn't have to end, and if you're going to put on a show that's sold primarily on being "big", that doesn't necessarily equate to being also "dim" and grainy. Disney made a 70mm print of "Pearl Harbor" for a premiere in Tokyo -- on a giant screen.
If you want to do it right, do it 70mm! Think "I want to make it great", not "How dim can I make it before the audience suspects something is really wrong?"
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Steve Guttag
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From: Annapolis, MD
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posted 09-30-2006 06:57 PM
The "no 70mm" is truly and exhibitor thing. The studios constantly tell me that they don't make it anymore because exhibitors don't ask for it (and I don't mean the odd cinema here and there...but as an industry).
If Regal and/or AMC said "make us 70mm" there would be 70mm prints.
35mm, to me, just doesn't look all that impressive on that big a screen...in fact, it doesn't look all that impressive to me on screens about 26-feet wide and larger. An EK print on a 40-foot screen can look great but not a release print. Naturally, it all depends on how far one is away from the image and what portion of their vision the screen encompasses...even VHS looks great from a mile away on a 21" screen.
However, I like the screen to completely fill my vision such that some amount of head movement is required for all of the action.
Generally, only 70mm delivers on that and it is an experience that one simply can not get in the home with today's technology (even HDTV).
So as to how wide a screen for 35mm...it all depends on the lens, screen gain, the lamphouse/lamp and shutter. The biggest I could go with 35mm not being damaged and achieve 16fL is about 31' x 74'. The screen will be curved and with gain. The equipment would need to be chosen very carefully. And if you are sitting about 93-feet away, it would even look pretty good.
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