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Topic: 60th Anniversary Cinerama Festival (Sep 28-Oct 4)
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Michael Coate
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posted 07-13-2012 01:35 PM
60th Anniversary Cinerama Festival September 28-October 4, 2012 Tentative Schedule Tickets on sale next week
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
10:00am FREE IN THE PICTURE (2012) The first new film photographed in 3 strip CINERAMA in 50 years. Extras: Behind the scenes documentary on the filming. 60 minutes
12:00 noon SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE (1958) Digital presentation, remastered from original negative. 142 minutes
3:00pm CINERAMA HOLIDAY (1955) Digital presentation, remastered from original negative. Extra: break-down reel. 159 minutes
7:00pm HOW THE WEST WAS WON (1962) Presented in 3 strip CINERAMA. Extra: short on film locations and 3 strip Renault automobile commercial. 195 minutes
11:00pm 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) Presented in 2K Digital 158 minutes
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
10:00am THE GOLDEN HEAD (1965) Digital presentation, remastered from 65mm negative. 110 minutes
12:45pm THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM (1962) Presented in 3 strip CINERAMA Original print courtesy National Media Museum, Bradford England. 155 minutes
4:00pm SEARCH FOR PARADISE (1957) Presented in 3 strip CINERAMA Original print courtesy of John Mitchell. (color faded to magenta) Extra: Break-down reel with Lowell Thomas and Dimitri Tiomkin. 140 minutes
7:00pm SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD (1956) Digital presentation, remastered from original negative. Extra: IN THE PICTURE in 3 strip CINERAMA, New York premiere and breakdown reel. 192 minutes
11:00pm HOLIDAY IN SPAIN (1961) Digital presentation remastered from 65mm negative. 118 minutes
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
10:00am CINERAMA’S RUSSIAN ADVENTURE (1966) Digital presentation remastered from 65mm negative. 142 minutes
1:00pm WINDJAMMER: THE VOYAGE OF THE CHRISTIAN RADICH (1958) Digital presentation, remastered from Swedish Film Institute 35mm composite print. Extra: Reconstruction short and break-down reel. 171 minutes
4:30pm IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD, WORLD (1963) Presented in 70mm Ultra Panavision. Extra: Cinerama Dome construction and “Mad World” premiere. 180 minutes
8:15pm THE 60th ANNIVERSARY SCREENING OF THIS IS CINERAMA (1952) Presented in 3 strip CINERAMA Extra: IN THE PICTURE presented in 3 strip CINERAMA and Q&A, and behind the scenes documentary 200 minutes
MONDAY, OCTOBER 1
12:00noon SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD (1956) Digital Presentation Extras: Break-down reel and premiere newsreel 165 minutes
3:20pm SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE (1958) Digital presentation Extra: IN THE PICTURE presented in 3 strip CINERAMA 165 minutes
7:00pm THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM (1962) Presented in 3 strip CINERAMA 155 minutes
10:15pm CINERAMA HOLIDAY (1955) Digital presentation. Extra: IN THE PICTURE presented in 3 strip CINERAMA, and break-down reel. 186 minutes
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2
1:00pm CINERAMA’S RUSSIAN ADVENTURE (1966) Digital presentation. 142 minutes
4:30pm WINDJAMMER, THE VOYAGE OF THE CHRISTIAN RADICH (1958) Digital presentation Extra: IN THE PICTURE presented in 3 strip CINERAMA. 171 minutes
8:15pm 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) Presented in 2K digital 158 minutes
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2012 No Cinerama showings due to AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE Anniversary Celebration at ArcLight Hollywood
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4
12:30pm SEARCH FOR PARADISE (1957) Presented in 3 strip CINERAMA. Extra: Break-down reel 138 minutes
3:45pm THIS IS CINERAMA (1952) Presented in 3 strip CINERAMA 132 minutes
7:00pm HOW THE WEST WAS WON (1962) Presented in 3 strip CINERAMA Extras: Q&A, Location short, Renault Commercial in 3 strip CINERAMA 210 minutes
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Frank Angel
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posted 07-15-2012 11:11 AM
quote: Allan Young The format, not the content, was the main reason to see them.
Exactly. So if the point is to recreate an anniversary of the format, then, like already pointed out, presenting the content in other than the format is quite off the mark.
And 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY in TOOOO KAY DIGITAL when there are two relatively new 5/70 prints out there??!!!....gag me with an effin spoon.
And just for historical accuracy, if that is what this is about, WINDJAMMER was not a Cinerama production.
quote: Bill Gabel My father once talked about when he saw "This Is Cinerama" and another friend was one of the projectionists at the Broadway Theatre in NYC when it opened there. Boy they went on about how Big screens were and this was an event and the stories went on and on.
But Bill, I bet your dad never went on and on about the CONTENT...it was all about the format!
You have to admit, some of them were pretty boring, even as travelogues. Now IMAX -- those guys really knew how to do travelogues.
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Stephen Furley
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posted 07-17-2012 06:10 AM
quote: Allan Young It would have been smarter to use all the money they could raise to make a single new three-strip print of just one of the titles rather than waste it digitally remastering them all.
But which film would you choose, and having made the print, what would you do with it? There are three public cinemas in the World which would be capable of screening it, plus one or two private ones; I'm not sure of the status of those now.
To the best of my knowledge the only regular screenings of Cinerama are the monthly ones of 'This is Cinerama' at Bradford; other than those it's just occasional special events at all three venues. I've been to the regular screenings at Bradford a couple of times, and to be honest there are not a great number f people there. Most people today probably could not even be able to give a reasonably accurate description of what the Cinerama process was. With (almost) nothing new having been released in the last fifty years, there's little chance of any new installations taking place, and with only three venues there's little chance of any new films being made ... That's before we even consider the technical and artistic restrictions imposed by the process.
It would be nice to have a new print of each of the films made which could circulate between the three venues, but there's little chance of that happening. At least the digital restorations enable the films to be seen, DVD and BD sales will bring in a small amount of revenue, and promote continuing interest in the films.
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Leo Enticknap
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posted 07-17-2012 05:10 PM
quote: Allan Young It would have been smarter to use all the money they could raise to make a single new three-strip print of just one of the titles rather than waste it digitally remastering them all.
I completely take your point that most of the non-fiction titles are basically unwatchable but for the unique technology that was used to make and show them.
The defence would be, however, that if you want to put on a festival that offers as complete as possible a cross-section of the output of Cinerama in its heyday on a finite budget, then if going down the digital route expands the range of titles you can show, then maybe there is some justification. But even so, 2001 in just 2K is a long way from ideal.
At the other end of the scale there are people who put on shows of educational, sponsored, industrial films etc. using the 16mm classroom projectors we remember from the classrooms of our childhoods as a sort of retro event - and again, without the atmosphere you get from putting the show on like that, well, you would have to be a very serious geek to be willing to sit through most of them. I helped to put a show on at an alternative comedy venue in Leeds last month, and the howls of laughter at faded and completely knackered prints of Say No to Strangers and Young Man's Fancy I don't think would have been there if they'd been seeing glossy restorations. The projector itself was also a talking point, specifically the fact that it was actually in the room and not hidden away in a booth. Most of the audience was under 30, I'd guess, and so probably hadn't seen one. In fact, I bought the BFI's DVD compilation of sex education films when it came out a few years ago, and on a TV screen in the living room, the atmosphere just wasn't there. But if the point of the show had been, say, to explore how classroom films about road safety or paedophiles had changed over the years, then if the ones you wanted to show weren't all available on 16mm then you'd be faced with a choice of not being able to deal with the subject properly, or having to go digital. I'd speculate that the curators of the Cinerama gig had to face a similar choice - format purism and be restricted to three or four films, or not so purist and show a wider range of titles. It's a tough one.
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