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Phil Connolly
Film Handler

Posts: 80
From: Derby, England
Registered: May 2000

posted 02-10-2002 06:38 AM

Dick,

Will you be running any of this 700mm film for the Widescreen Weekend?

Or, how about some 30 strip Cinerama?

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Ben Wales
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 602
From: Southampton. England
Registered: Jul 99

posted 02-10-2002 06:49 AM

Phill/Dick

You are both correct, that it is on the Imax Theatre Web site at Birmingham UK.

To find it Joe, just find the main page and there is a box that flashes Imax stats every few secs.

I did tell them months ago, but they have not change anything.

Perhaps they know better!, as I only work there

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Dick Vaughan
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1032
From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 02-10-2002 06:55 AM

Phil

The ultimate would be one film strip per screen louvre on Cinerama

So that would be just over 1000 projectors each running a film 0.2 mm wide

All those gigolos ,all those tiny little nanobot projectionists to thread them

"Nurse,quick the screens....."

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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)

Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001

posted 02-10-2002 08:56 AM

I could thread the projector in New York and Jerry could watch it in Florida. Of course I would have to bounce the projector beam off the Moon. Humm, does this 350mm qualify as an e-projector?

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 02-10-2002 11:51 AM

700mm at bradford and 350mm in Birmingham Is this size envy or what

Is it the local water or the local beer?

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John Walsh
Film God

Posts: 2490
From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 02-10-2002 06:00 PM

It must require "the world's largest Norelcos" to run that film! (See the "Picture" section!

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 02-10-2002 07:45 PM

Hey John,
I've stood next to those 350mm/700mm Norelcos before. My voice goes up at least 6 octaves and all of a sudden I feel like a Munchikin! Just imagine the size of the rectifiers and water chillers for a combination 350/700mm machine. Is this the new Norelco AA-3? I just wanna go home Auntie Em......
Mark @ GTS

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Dick Vaughan
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1032
From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 02-11-2002 03:09 AM

said "700mm at bradford and 350mm in Birmingham Is this size envy or what .Is it the local water or the local beer?"

What's water?

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Ben Wales
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 602
From: Southampton. England
Registered: Jul 99

posted 02-11-2002 04:12 PM

Perhaps as we speak Kodak are working on this new large format

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Mark Lensenmayer
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1605
From: Upper Arlington, OH
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 02-11-2002 09:32 PM

Well, assuming a 350mm film is 10x larger in all directions, would each frame be 40 perf? That would also be pumping 900 feet per minute through the projector, or film running at 10.2 miles per hour. You could get some serious bit rates from Dolby Digital running by at that speed. DTS sound quality wouldn't change at all.

A two hour feature would 108,000' long, which is over 20 miles of film.

I think it would take Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox to handle something like that.

I leave the calculations for 700mm to someone else...my calculator fingers are getting tired.

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Bill Enos
Film God

Posts: 2081
From: Richmond, Virginia, USA
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 02-12-2002 12:45 AM

Let the digital projection guys try to equal the resolution of this stuff.

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