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Author Topic: 'Lawrence of Arabia' in 70mm @ The Heights - 3/17 and film jam a the Ziegfeld John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 04-11-2006 08:03 AM                     The Zig ... The ceiling speakers are still there, but I doubt they are used. At least they got rid of the orange extension cord used to connect the surround speakers.... Thanks, Pete!  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-18-2006 06:27 AM                        Well, if the theatre is following the same policy they had when they scratched and mauled one of two new prints of 2001:ASO that I saw there in 2002, it is no wonder. Back then, they had some kid, looked like he was old enough to be in High School, sitting OUTSIDE the booth. He explained to me, when I finally went up to tell him that the frame-line was IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN and the sound was warbley and muffled, obviousely not properly threaded in the penthouse, that it was his job ONLY "to switch to the small film (35mm) if the big film (70mm) breaks." He didn't touch anything else. AND he couldn't let me in the booth. But he would try to reframe it. Good boy. Seems they were running a 35mm "backup" print in tandem with the 70mm. "Does the 'big' film break very often?" asks, I. "Oh yah," says High School Harry. I said I would frame it for him. He said he couldn't let me in the booth or he'd get fired. I asked if there were a projectionist in the theatre. He explained that the projectionist only comes in on Fridays and Saturdays. I showed him my NYC projectionist license; he wasn't impressed -- he wouldn't let me in. He was able to get it framed, kind of. The sound was never fixed. So now you know why the sound was not threaded properly in the mag penthouse and why it was out of frame and never brought back into perfect framing for my screening of 2001; more to the point, you also know why the they couldn't fix the problem. Luckily they did allow a real projectionist to get into the booth at your LOA screening. So sad that the once prestigous grandfather of a long line of flagship theatres in NYC is slowly declining....how long can a single screen survive, even if it is the grand Ziegfeld? But not to worry....all theses problems will disappear as they are installing a new DLP projector.....bet LOA will look just great on THAT!  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-18-2006 07:47 AM                     quote: Frank Angel they scratched and mauled one of two new prints of 2001:ASO that I saw there in 2002 It was the Astor Plaza that had that run, not the Ziegfeld.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-18-2006 01:51 PM                        My bad...you're right. Apologies to Ziggy.  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 06-05-2012 08:56 PM                 It has been 2240 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 06-05-2012 08:56 PM                     so let me get this straight did the DTS 70mm prints of 'Lawrence' have the five front channel sound or was it 3 front/stereo surround - what does this mean for the recent restoration, since DCI specs has the LC/RC channels of sound in place, Sony has the chance to actual encode, preserve the original mix. I'm assuming though when Sony actually releases the film theatrically prior it's bluray release (that's the tentative plan) the mix will be the commonplace 5.1 remix, since most theaters don't have LC/RC speakers rigged. It's really sad that while digital picture is making technological advances, past cinema 'sound' is just being ignored, phased out (or are studios actually encoding pre-1977 70mm films DCP's with five front channel sound and we just don't know about it?)  |  IP: Logged Daniel Schulz Master Film Handler Posts: 387 From: Los Angeles, CA USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 06-06-2012 12:49 PM                        We have discs available for both mixes: the original mix with 5 screen channels and mono surrounds, and also a 5.1 remix.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 09-04-2012 05:42 PM                     from what I can tell, Sony is presenting the restored print via Fathom Event's which is essentially a satellite feed - correct? wow, from 70mm to substandard craptastic satellite picture quality ... I am shocked and appalled  |  IP: Logged Daniel Schulz Master Film Handler Posts: 387 From: Los Angeles, CA USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 09-04-2012 06:11 PM                        Actually unlike most Fathom events, Lawrence of Arabia is being presented with DCPs, either 2K or 4K depending on the theater.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 09-04-2012 08:50 PM                     ^ as it should be (well more ideally 70mm) - but thanks for the info!  |  IP: Logged Derek Young Film Handler Posts: 8 From: Stockwell London England Registered: Aug 2012 posted 09-05-2012 10:52 AM                  Lawrence is screening in the London Film Festival in NFT 1 on the Southbank on the new 4K projector in October.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 09-05-2012 11:09 AM                     at the New York Film Festival the screening of 'Lawrence' on Sept 30th is also 4K DCP  |  IP: Logged

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