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Author Topic: 70mm shows for 2003 in York (u.k.) Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 07-05-2003 11:42 AM                        Here is a list of all 70mm shows screening at City Screen in York for all you 70mm fans out there. Spartacus 27th July The Longest Day 3rd August Cry Freedom 7th September Indiana Jones- Temple of Doom 11th and 12th Oct Indiana Jones- Last Crusade 25th and 26th Oct Earthquake in SENSURROUND 22nd and 23rd Novemeber Krakatoa East Of Java- 23rd November Gremlins 13th and 14th December  |  IP: Logged Mike Fitzgerald Expert Film Handler Posts: 224 From: Castle Hayne, NC, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 07-05-2003 11:19 PM                     Wish I could be there for those shows. Sounds like a good time will be had by all  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 07-06-2003 06:50 AM                        Well we aim to please here in York!  |  IP: Logged Peter Hall Master Film Handler Posts: 314 From: London, UK Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-06-2003 08:28 AM                        Pls define "in sensurround" ?  |  IP: Logged Michael Harlow Expert Film Handler Posts: 170 From: Faversham, Kent, UK Registered: Jul 2002 posted 07-06-2003 08:32 AM                     Peter, I am glad you said "pls define sensurround" i was wondering if this is the "real thing" I am not old enough to remember when the West End was shaking during earthquake but would love to experience it... Is this the real thing?  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 07-06-2003 10:05 AM                        I think Darren's planning on resurrecting the real thing as far as possible, special subwoofers and all. Now we'll find out just how good a job the architects and builders did! If you hear reports of a cinema, two pubs, a restaurant and a church all going the same way as the tree in my garden, you'll know what happened. Probably best to bring a hard hat...  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 07-06-2003 10:36 AM                        Sensurround. (Huge F**k off rumble/shaken by audio) Using an Original Sensuround Generator Card, extra huge subs in the auditorium to give us the rummble/shake etc, and transducers under the seating, to directly use the seating support as a bass driver, this saves on subbs. Should all work by november!!! All this equals Sensurround. Need to speak to Future Projections about Amp's! Darren  |  IP: Logged Bernard Tonks Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Cranleigh, Surrey, England Registered: Apr 2001 posted 07-06-2003 12:07 PM                     I remember seeing “Earthquake” in 70mm and Sensurround at the Empire Theatre, Leicester Square, which was equipped with three Philips DP70 projectors, then on carbon arcs and changeovers! The Sensurround 'QUAKE' effect together with the six track magnetic stereo sound was just god almighty awesome. The pressure I felt on my chest was only just bearable for me. When the first earthquake was over, it was most amusing to see almost the whole audience lighting up their cigarettes, which caused considerable nervous laughter. Quite an experience I shall never forget. If you could have come down to Cranleigh a month ago Darren, you would have got a good idea what Sensurround was like, with the demolition of my old cinema, the ground really rumbled. You can just about see the projection room and projection ports almost centre of the two large ports. To the left was where the rewind benches were.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 07-06-2003 12:22 PM                        Just Photoshop out that JCB and you've got the ideal poster... come and see Earthquake if you dare!  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 07-18-2003 11:34 AM                        Earthquake may also be played in sensurround on the same day, 22nd or 23rd of November in Germany as a dual re-lauch with my self- 'City Screen' and 'Cineplex' in Frankfurt Germany. Darren  |  IP: Logged Peter Hall Master Film Handler Posts: 314 From: London, UK Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-19-2003 02:00 AM                        I ask again - define your reproduction of "sensurround" ! My car has a good sub bass and a nice wide windscreen - can I call it "Todd AO" ? Pete  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 07-19-2003 11:30 AM                        Well as THX is now badging car audio products I don't see why not! Seriously, I do think it's possible to be too purist at times. If The Robe is projected using a different type of anamorph to an original 1952 Hypergonar, would you say that it isn't being truly shown in CinemaScope? Or if a print of Oklahoma is run on a projector which isn't a DP-70 is that not Todd-AO, even though the picture on the screen looks to all intents and purposes identical to if original equipment were being used?  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 07-20-2003 04:36 AM                        I think if the end result is the same regardless of the equipment used, you can call it the same as the original. Herbert in Germay is using original Cerwin Vega subs, I have sourced brand new Tannoy subs to use. The spec of the new subs matches the criteria of the originals, and are probably more efficent. The sensurround effect sub-bass will be generated by a re-built sensurround generator card. So the end result will be the same experience as seeing Earthquake in 1974. THe 70mm print has the Sensurround control tones on it, that will trigger the sub-bass card on and off. All in all Sensurround wil be alive and well in November 2003 Darren  |  IP: Logged

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