Steve

The Dryden Theatre was built in the early 1950's, and is part of the George Eastman House Museum. Currently equipped with a pair of Century Model C projectors, in a nitrate-certified booth:
http://www.eastman.org/
http://www.eastman.org/6_calfilm/6_index.html
http://www.eastman.org/3_histhse/3_index.html

Thats more like running something in Barf-O-Rama than Cinerama!! You guys need to take down that Cinerama sign and forget the whole thing. What a bunch of that place is! Either do film right as the place was intended or get out of the buisness.........
Mark

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Steve

As to the "brand new print" being an implication that it is from original elements....sez who? Brand new print means just that...this print has not been screened to the public before. At most, there has been a QC screening. With the Brand New tag, it gives the perspective patron the feeling that it isn't faded, scratched up or spliced up. Furthermore, if it becomes scratched up and otherwise damaged, you know it happened there.

Brand New print separates it from a "recently struck print" which only implies that it isn't faded but it has been "previously enjoyed."

A "Restored Print" would imply that it was a previously struck print that had been restored with a process like photoguard. As opposed to a "Restored Version" to distingquish it from it's original release.

Then there are films like Gone With the Wind where you would have to further disclaim just what era the negatives your print was struck from since it has been recut so many times.

But for you to claim that announcing a "Brand New Print" implies that it came from the original element (or the original O-Neg) is a leap. As to Lawrence, as it is currently released, most if not all started with the O-Neg, then restored to generate a new Neg.

Now if your implication is that only a Brand New Print should come from the O-Neg, then I claim you are outright wrong. Almost no films today are shown that were struck from the O-Neg but instead are dupes. What is commonly known as "EK-Prints" are the very few that are struck from the O-Neg and used just about exclusively by the studios for their screenings. And even they have opticals and such the move the image a generation away from the O-Neg.

About the only significance I'll give you to the restoration part is that the "Restored Print" of Lawrence is longer due to some scenes that were cut from the original release. In modern terms, this is the Directors Cut. Whereas I've shown the restored version to Sir David Lean (before he passed away), I think it is a safe bet he approved.

Steve

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"A "Restored Print" would imply that it was a previously struck print that had been restored with a process like photoguard. As opposed to a "Restored Version" to distingquish it from it's original release. "

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I think it is more proper and less confusing to refer to those two situations this way.

restored print = rejuvenated print

Thanks for sharing the great pics. -Please come again and report about the necessity of the second dts reader and unit.

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Thanks for sharing the great pics. -Please come again and report about the necessity of the second dts reader and unit.

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Regards,

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Sorry about that, I type too fast.

Regards,