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Author Topic: Interesting ( ;-) )site about Large format film Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-05-2004 06:58 AM                        Someone directed me to this site as being an authorative guide to large format aspect ratios http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Makeup/4303/largeformats.html I particularly like the 6 optical tracks on the 70mm release prints  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 04-05-2004 07:27 AM                     This site is as bad as that Carr and Hayes book.  |  IP: Logged Robert Harris Film Handler Posts: 95 From: Bedford Hills, NY, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 04-05-2004 08:41 AM                     This is a superb site, and should be required of anyone truly interested in the technical history of film. I'd always wondered what all that brown stuff on the edges of 70mm film covered up and now I know. Scrape it away and... Its the seven channels of optical stereo variable area... as mentioned in the C-H tome. Some people should not be permited to use Photoshop. RAH  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 04-05-2004 11:06 AM                     Dick wrote: quote: I particularly like the 6 optical tracks on the 70mm release prints And the 65mm positive 'negative' Robert, it's an anti-piracy device, by putting all that brown gunk down the edges of the print they stop you from playing the multi channel optical track and running off pirate CDs of it. Of course, the brown gunk down the edges also goes nicely with the brown splodges that they put all over the piicture. [ 04-05-2004, 12:19 PM: Message edited by: Stephen Furley ]  |  IP: Logged Ron Lacheur Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 650 From: British Columbia, Canada Registered: Feb 2002 posted 04-05-2004 01:57 PM                     Quote from the website: quote: Imax theaters have also taken vertical 70mm prints of movies like Titanic and The Perfect Storm and shown them on the Imax screen. When blown up onto a large screen these movies lack the sharpness of movies that were shot on horizontal 70mm like Everest and Special Effects: Anything Can Happen. The Perfect Storm wasn't a 70mm release.  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-05-2004 07:45 PM                     Well, if its printed on the Internet, it MUST be true. Right? I would think you could do better than that with just a cursory look around the Internet. Between Marty's Widescreen Museum and Thomas' In70mm page, you could pretty much clear up everything in this document. I love the optical tracks. My favorite sentence is "If an anamorphic lens is used the sky is the limit." Oh, there are cool pictures of his pool party here: Brian's Pool Party Profound comments on 1970's Drive-In Movies are here: I Don't Like Drive-In Films  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 04-05-2004 08:13 PM                        Alright. Which one of y'all is gonna point him to this site and specifically this thread?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-05-2004 10:28 PM                     What a bonanza for Dolby! Dolby will love this new 70mm system as you will need at least 6 RED LED's per machine. Once the market is saturated with regular 35mm RED LED scanners this system will immediatey bring Dolby's RED LED sales back to what they were a few years ago. Hey nothings better than discrete Dolby SR! I'm looking foreword to seeing the CP-300 as well.... Actually someone should e-mail this fella and let him know that things are amuck! Mark  |  IP: Logged Joshua Lott Expert Film Handler Posts: 246 From: Fairbanks, AK, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 04-05-2004 11:33 PM                        I have sent him an email and pointed him to this thread.  |  IP: Logged Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-05-2004 11:59 PM                        The page about large formats was absolutely hilarious. Was this guy a high school student doing a project? I noticed a lot of grammatical and spelling errors in the pages too.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 04-06-2004 04:28 AM                     About DtS he says: quote: The Data is on a CD (or 2 or 3 CDs depending on the film's length)  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-06-2004 04:38 AM                        The projected light beams for the 3 strip Cinerama set up also exhibit interesting optical properties  |  IP: Logged Gilbert Travin Expert Film Handler Posts: 101 From: Villeurbanne / France Registered: Jan 2004 posted 04-06-2004 04:47 AM                        ..... HI !!!! And what about 70 mm with 78 rpm disc synchronized ?  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-06-2004 05:07 AM                        There were a number of experimental systems in the 1900s and teens which synched 35mm film to high speed coarsegroove discs (e.g. Messter Biophon, Gaumont Chronophone, Hepworth Vivaphone - which was 78rpm), but I don't know any wide film experiments which did that. That's not to say that there weren't any, though.  |  IP: Logged Christopher Seo Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 530 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-06-2004 12:20 PM                     Come on folks, be a little bit charitable. This fellow is not claiming to be the authoritative source on film formats. The author merely states: quote: I went on-line and tried to find out as much as I could about the various ways to shoot a movie or TV show and tried my best to summarize it. Sure there are errors, but there's a lot of good information and diagrams too. If I were a high school teacher I'd give it a high grade.  |  IP: Logged

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