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Ben Wales
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Southampton. England
Registered: Jul 99

posted 04-14-2007 05:32 PM

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The point was that the 70mm Top Gun print is TRASHED beyond belief,

There was a 70mm print hear in the UK as I saw a screening at the BFI Imax in London about 5 years ago.

It did not look too bad then....

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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From: Music City
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posted 04-14-2007 05:42 PM

quote: Michael Coate
Doctor Dolittle"??? Mark, they want people to show up.

Thats my point! I think there are probably better examples than what they have choosen. Indeed save us all from Dr Dolittle... I couldn't stand it even as a small kid.

Mark

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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

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From: Lawton, OK, USA
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posted 04-14-2007 06:06 PM

quote: Mike Schindler
Isn't the AFI/Silver in Maryland?

Yes. But it might as well be in Los Angeles from my perspective. I'm near the geographic center of the country. Those theaters are on the east and west coasts.

I can justify driving a couple hundred miles each way to see a high quality movie presentation. I cannot justify spending a lot more money on plane tickets and hotel rooms to see a movie.

The Dallas-Fort Worth area is more than big enough to support some kind of high quality movie theater capable of showing newly struck 70mm prints of old movies. I think Oklahoma City is a big enough market to support the same thing as well.

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Ron Curran
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posted 04-14-2007 09:57 PM

Bobby, Oklahoma’s tourist association could spring for a Todd AO set-up to show Oklahoma! The thus-equipped theatre could then also present other 70mm shows.

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Bobby Henderson
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From: Lawton, OK, USA
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posted 04-15-2007 12:59 AM

Well, yeah logic would suggest the state of Oklahoma really should have some high quality venue in which to show something like the 70mm Todd-AO version of Oklahoma! Sadly, that isn't the case. Outside of the IMAX-3D theater Cinemark has in Tulsa and the Iwerks 15/70 domed screen theater at the Omniplex in OKC I don't think there are any other 70mm equipped screens left in the entire state. Pretty damned sad.

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John Hawkinson
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posted 04-15-2007 01:07 AM

One imagines AMPAS has access to a 70mm print that nobody else knows about... Hey Bill, does the Bel Air circuit do 70mm?

--jhawk

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Paul Linfesty
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From: Bakersfield, CA, USA
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posted 04-15-2007 01:11 AM

quote: Michael Coate
I'll be mighty disappointed if they end up showing 35mm prints with optical sound.

Couldn't this statement be better clarified by adding the word analog? After all, the Dolby Digital track is technically an optical track, too.

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Michael Coate
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posted 04-15-2007 01:23 AM

Jesus christ, Paul! When will your crusade to discredit me cease?

Yes, a Dolby Digital track is, technically speaking, optical in nature. But any intelligent person who read my entire post including the two sentences that followed the sentence that caught your eye would've been armed with the appropriate context to interpret what I wrote.

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Paul Linfesty
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posted 04-15-2007 08:52 AM

quote: Michael Coate
Jesus christ, Paul! When will your crusade to discredit me cease?

LOL! Get over yourself. I'm doing nothing more here than holding you to the same standards you need to hold everyone else to.

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Brian Guckian
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From: Dublin, Ireland
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posted 04-15-2007 05:47 PM

The commonly accepted understanding of "optical sound" for 35mm is the SVA track.

Case dismissed! [Big Grin]

Now we need to convert those selected Dallas / Fort Worth and Oklahoma theatres to show 70mm...put in JJs, Vic 8s, MP75s, whatever! Or - what if the same theatres have dormant 70mm capability that could be restored?

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Thomas Hauerslev
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From: Copenhagen, Denmark
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posted 04-17-2007 12:15 PM

Hey guys I just updated the information you need to attend the next Todd-AO Festival in Karlsruhe ín Germany from October 5-7, 2007.

We show 70mm films in an original 70mm Cinerama cinema - and we show the original prints, in 6-track mag. So stop complaining, and get your - well whatever - over here and enjoy the films, the fun, the beer, and the good company.

http://www.in70mm.com/festival

Cheers Thomas
www.in70mm.com

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John Wilson
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posted 04-17-2007 12:43 PM

Hmmm...according to Routeplanner, the German fest is only 377 km from where I am.

Intriguing... [Cool]

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Thomas Hauerslev
Master Film Handler

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posted 04-17-2007 12:56 PM

The easiest way to Karlsruhe from abroad (outside Germany) is flying to Frankfurt am Main and then take the train directly from the airport to Karlsruhe main station. It's a one-hour train ride.

John, why did you relocate to Belgium?

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Bill Gabel
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posted 04-17-2007 01:02 PM

quote: John Hawkinson
Hey Bill, does the Bel Air circuit do 70mm?

No, most houses are equipped with 35mm and or video. Afew are equipped to do seperate track and picture.

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Michael Coate
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From: Los Angeles, California
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posted 04-17-2007 05:40 PM

quote: Paul Linfesty
LOL! Get over yourself. I'm doing nothing more here than holding you to the same standards you need to hold everyone else to.

quote: Brian Guckian
The commonly accepted understanding of "optical sound" for 35mm is the SVA track.

Case dismissed!

Get over myself??? What are you, a parrot? Your buddy Henderson pulled this same stunt a few months back.

So I have high standards regarding effective communication... Where's the problem in that?!

Thank you, Brian, for being a voice of reason. Just ignore Paul. It's evident that he has something stuck up his ass (besides his boyfriend's cock).

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