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Keri Delio
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posted 04-14-2011 06:21 PM

Thanks for the clarification Bill, I honestly didn't know.

Here are a couple of ads I found around the web over the years and saved, if they have already been posted I apologize in advance. I will get shots of my Northpark Gone With the Wind newspaper suppliment up very soon.

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Stephen Furley
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posted 04-14-2011 06:24 PM

quote: Michael Coate
And here's an ad for Kurosawa's Soviet-Japanese co-production "Dersu Uzala," a film that at least two film history books mistakenly claim wasn't shown in 70mm in the United States. This ad is for a 1978 run in San Francisco.

Ran as an original 70 mm print at the Bradford Widescreen Weekend last month. I didn't know this was ever released in 70 mm until then, and I had never previously seen the film in any format. Probably the highlight of the weekend for me.

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Tom Petrov
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posted 04-14-2011 06:35 PM

quote:
Thanks for the clarification Bill, I honestly didn't know.

Here are a couple of ads I found around the web over the years and saved, if they have already been posted I apologize in advance. I will get shots of my Northpark Gone With the Wind newspaper suppliment up very soon.

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Check out the Road Warrior ad.

Seven shows Fri/Sat off one print. Amazing!

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Jonathan Goeldner
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posted 04-14-2011 08:43 PM

aside from an uncut version of Ken Russell's 'The Devils' - I really really want MGM to release 'The Boyfriend' on bluray - I had no idea that it was released in 70mm

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Bill Gabel
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posted 04-15-2011 10:23 AM

quote: Jonathan Goeldner
I really really want MGM to release 'The Boyfriend' on bluray

Well MGM does not own the video rights to the film. It is now available from the Warner Archive Collection. The DVDR has been remastered 16x9 and has a behind the scenes featurette. I think it has all the Roadshow overture music and the running time is 136 mins. They also have 'Savage Messiah' available too.

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Michael Coate
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posted 04-15-2011 01:29 PM

How 'bout some 007 (well, sort of)...

Sydney Daily Telegraph, June 7, 1967

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Lionel Fouillen
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posted 04-15-2011 01:57 PM

@Stephen Furley,
Not only Dersu Uzala was exhibited in 70mm previously, it was also shot in genuine 70mm, using russian light-weight magnesium-made cameras which made them very portable. Small in size as well, they looked like 35mm cameras but definitely were 70mm.

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Jonathan Goeldner
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posted 04-16-2011 01:14 PM

^ do you know who owns the US video rights to Dersu? (Kino?) I'm hoping that Criterion can do a proper release from 65mm elements

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Tom Petrov
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posted 04-17-2011 05:11 PM

So are we looking at $14,000 for a 70MM print? Can anyone confirm?

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Arthur Allen
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posted 04-18-2011 10:44 PM

In response to Mark Campbell who said Far & Away only showed in four theaters in Seattle in 70mm, I checked the newspapers, and he was right.

Seattle Times, May 22, 1992

Also, when a tour of Titanic artifacts visited Seattle, the gift shop was selling frames of the 70mm print of Titanic mounted onto a plaque. I didn't think this was a great use of a film print, but now that I've heard there were only six prints made, this was a horrible way to destroy a film. I remember the outcry when an investor had purchased a Picasso painting and was planning to cut it up and sell pieces of it to the public. Cutting up a rare 70mm print isn't a much better idea.

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Brad Miller
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posted 04-18-2011 11:54 PM

There were 14 prints made of Titanic in 70mm. 4 were shipped overseas. Only 3 survived in the US.

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Mark Campbell
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posted 04-19-2011 12:04 AM

Arthur, my guess was sheer luck. Never would have guessed the Grand and the Renton Village 8. Probably the last 70mm both those venues played.

Nice ad. Did you run one of those engagements? I saw it in 70mm at the John Danz.

Forgot what they meant by "Super 70mm" but I think it was because it was photographed in Super 65.

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Bobby Henderson
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posted 04-19-2011 12:35 AM

It was just a re-arrangement of the standard "Super Panavision 70" term applied to 65mm lensed productions in the 1960's -such as Lawrence of Arabia.

quote: Brad Miller
There were 14 prints made of Titanic in 70mm. 4 were shipped overseas. Only 3 survived in the US.

Where the hell did I get the idea that only 6 prints of Titanic were struck in 70mm DTS? I guess if only 3 prints survived in the US then that means 7 of them were trashed at some point in their runs. Or perhaps cut up for silly keepsake items purchased at Best Buy.

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Brad Miller
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posted 04-19-2011 12:53 AM

If you recall, John Pytlak was sent around the country after about 5 1/2 months of playing to inspect the prints. He said GCC Northpark's print was the only one in perfect like new condition. ALL of the others were scratched and had splices. There were supposedly only 2 other prints in "decent" condition.

Our print from Northpark was sent to the Fox theater in Atlanta where their union operator running AAII projectors reel to reel managed to damage it on a one week play. I know because I was the next person to play it back in Dallas again and it was NOT in the same condition as it was when I shipped it (after 6 months on a platter, by the way). I'm still angry to this day about that.

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Bobby Henderson
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posted 04-19-2011 01:12 AM

That is indeed a pisser. After months of flawless runs, of which I was thankful enough to witness in December of 1997, someone else takes the valuable print and damages it.

I snapped an impromptu picture of the Best Buy curio I bought back in, what, 1998 or 1999?

I've never handled a 70mm DTS print of Titanic so I don't really know for sure if this is an actual dupe from one of those prints or something else. The green bar code stuff just looks too different to me from other bits of 70mm DTS print scans I've seen. My guess is 20th Century Fox or Paramount grabbed a few key film frames and duped the hell out of them on some 70mm film stock.

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