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Topic: 70mm and Cinerama - WSW 2011 program is ready
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Stephen Furley
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Posts: 3059
From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 01-31-2011 05:30 PM
Thomas,
Hope to see you in Bradford this year.
Your link to the NMM website has been broken; the Widescreen Weekend page seems to be here:
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On this page "Dr. Zhivago" and "How the West was Won" are both shown as being '70mm'. Since "Dr. Zhivago" was shot in 35mm anamorphic, and is being presented digitally, it's difficult to see what this means. Was the film scanned from a 70mm element?
"How the West was Won" was shot, and is being presented in Cinerama, I believe a few few scenes were shot in 65mm, so what does '70mm' mean in this case?
On your own site, "The Bridge on the River Kwai" is described as being 'in 4k DCP CinemaScope with full 6-track PCM stereo sound on the flat screen' This description seems to mix origination and presentation formats. The more detailed description in the full programme says 'Filmed in: 35mm 4 perforations, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in: CinemaScope. Presented on: The flat screen in a new 4K DCP print with a new 5.1 digital soundtrack. Aspect ratio: 2,55:1.', but further down we see 'About showing 4k DCP on a 2k projector. The server scales a 4k DCP down to 2K DCP and the projector shows it in 2K.'. What does 'a new 4K DCP print' mean in this case? Does projecting in 2k from 4k data give better quality, in the same way that projecting a 35mm print from a 65mm negative can?
These days when a film may have been originated in one format, or possibly several different ones, has been restored in one digital format, or if it's a more recent production passed through a digital intermediate in one digital format, distributed as data in a different digital format, and finally projected by a digital projector possibly at a different resolution, it's difficult to know what we are actually seeing.The days when a film could be simply stated as being in Todd-AO or Cinemascope or whatever seem to have passed.
"Дерсу Узала" sounds interesting; I know no Danish, and only a little Russian.
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