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Martin Brooks
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From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: May 2002
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posted 03-05-2010 11:57 AM
quote: Mark Lensenmayer
Regarding a 70mm WOODSTOCK, there is some dispute about this. There is an article in a Kodak Publication that indicates 70mm prints were going to me made. But no one I know of has ever been able to confirm any screenings. It remains a mystery.
I've debated this with "film historians" for years. My strong recollection is that I saw Woodstock in 70mm 6-track discrete at the Trans-Lux West on Broadway and 49th Street in NYC. For the surrounds, they had Altecs sitting in the aisles, but it sounded great. The surrounds were mainly used for the stage announcements.
But I can't prove it. I also had a recollection that it also played at the Trans-Lux East in 4-track mag and that I chose to see it in 6-track and 70mm (natch) based on a newspaper ad. However, I've gone back to the NY Times, Village Voice, NY Post and Daily News microfilm records and there is absolutely nothing in any ad that I could find that indicates anything about the format...not even a mention of stereo. So I no longer remember how I would have known which theatre had the superior format, unless I just happened to walk by the theatre, which is possible because my father's office was next door, although that still doesn't explain how I chose the TL West over the East, because my inclination would have been the East, since the TL West had been primarily a newsreel theatre and I wouldn't have expected the presentation to be very good.
But then I also remembered seeing what I thought was a revival 70mm print at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. But I contacted the curator, David Schwartz, and he wrote that he remembers the print being a 35mm IB Tech print with 4-track mag sound. However, he also said that (although he didn't supply any documentation), that 70mm prints were definitely made and he "thinks" that it must have played in 70mm in NYC. But obviously, that's not "proof" either.
So yes, it's still a mystery. But I still maintain that I saw it in 70mm, as stated.
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Mark Ogden
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From: Little Falls, N.J.
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posted 03-05-2010 07:38 PM
There is a least one 70mm print of Woodstock out there, it was shown last year at the Roger Ebert film festival in Illinois. It must be a pretty recent one, though, because it was the four hour version, which I don't recall being seen before recently. Steve Krauss (whatever happened to him?) would have handled it.
In point of fact, the 35mm prints of this title are all, in actuality, 70mm reduction prints. Because the production wanted a multiple split-screen effect using the original 16mm footage, the decision was made to rephotograph it by making multiple passes onto a 70mm negative, using a layout designed by Thelma Schoonmaker.
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