VistaVision Returns!

[Ryan Gallagher]

Gaumont Kallee built exactly that for the screening rooms at Pinewood The PPT has the surviving one. But it can only be used for Lazy 8 as it runs from bottom to top. Also the prism required the machine to point 90 degrees from the screen

Would the bottom to top requirement only apply to keep original soundtracks playable with the relative reader locations? Or is there something I’m missing about the print orientation? Seems we are now in an era where perhaps original soundtrack locations can be ignored in favor of BLS's offboard sync'd approach?

I think in my head tetris a VV print with about 0% confidence: played top to bottom without the 90deg turn and horizontal mechanism, emulsion towards lamp, would have the printed image running vertically but without the horizontal and vertical flip needed for correct projection? So some extra prism work would be needed just to undo the lens image reversals too?

[Gordon McLeod]

Remember the content would run backwards if it was threaded the opposite direction

[Ryan Gallagher]

Remember the content would run backwards if it was threaded the opposite direction

Understood. I'm talking about this purely hypothetical approach where you play an 8perf VV print with the proper emulsion orientation vertically through a regular projector starting from frame 1. Ignoring soundtrack, motor speed and intermittent changes, it seems it should be possible with various prism/mirrors to do the necessary manipulations to the image to get it horizontal and oriented correctly. Is that even possible? It would take more than just a dove type prism to do the rotation, there may be some image flipping required too.