Check out Thomas Hauerslevs page- there are also regular 70mm screenings in Holland and Belgium.

BTW that Baraka screening at the swim pool, is that on a DP75?

It's windy up there in the Alps! Actually, the von Trapp family left Austria in a train to Italy, ostensibly to begin a European concert tour. The recently released DVD set has a pretty comprehensive 90-minute documentary on the making of SOM. Julie Andrews tells of the difficulty in shooting the opening scene, due to the helicopter prop wash. An angry farmer used a pitchfork to poke holes in the plastic base of the "stream" that she threw pebbles in. And the backlit birch tree scene in the opening number was shot in about 20 minutes of sun in an otherwise cold, wet and dismal week of waiting for the sun to shine.

There's been quite a bit of comment in the r.a.m.t newsgroup about the "overenhanced" sharpness of the SOM DVD. I found it acceptable if I turned down the sharpness control on my monitor. Whoever did the transfer forgot that the 65 mm Todd AO negative was plenty sharp to begin with! My only other complaint about the DVD was a density "bounce" in the transfer of the opening titles. Other than that, the DVD brought back fond memories of seeing it in a theatre, but pales in comparison to the "Splendor of 70 mm":
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/newsletters/reel/december98/pppp.shtml http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/newsletters/reel/march99/pytlak.shtml

We even did a two-week rerun of "The Wild Bunch" in 70mm (bad programming, if you ask me, but I didn't complain when the print arrived ).

Problem was, nobody came to see them. We had to cancel several of the "Wild Bunch" shows and run the rest for a handful of people at most. The management had neglected to put even half-decent ads in the daily papers (one for "Ben Hur" consisted of a one-liner that simply said "Ben Hur, Draken, 7 pm", without even mentioning 70mm) or announce the screenings in any other way. Nobody knew that we were running these classic, so nobody came.

Two years later, Svensk Filmindustri, Sweden's largest theatre chain, decided to dust off these same 70mm prints in Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö (yup, the screening of "Cleopatra" that Thomas mentioned is part of this effort, and the print is the same we had). They put ads in the papers, placed posters in prominent places on multiplex walls, and generated several articles in local papers about "the splendor of 70mm".

Thomas may entertain you for hours at that issue - we DID have lots of 70mm prints, but distributors (just a few old men with no passion for that part of their job) voted the format out. -Thats the short version !

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Look for it only in books - it's a civilisation - gone with the wind

Hvorfor fortæller du ikke bare, det var en 75'er i den pøl i stedet for at spørge.
Du ved det jo godt !!

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Martin, You marshmellowhead

Why don't You just tell the guys, it was a 75 in that pyyl ? -You know very well...!!

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Why don't You just tell the guys, it was a 75 in that pyyl ? -You know very well...!!

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he-he-he...my friend Per told me!

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You'll find a slight squeeze on the hooter an excellent safety precaution, Miss Scrumptious! - CCBB

Tony Cutts ,who was then at the Majestic in Leeds, ran the same 70mm print for 1,444 shows over 2 1/2 years when it first came out.He even has a telegram from Julie Andrews congratulating him on the success of the run at his theatre.