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Author Topic: 70MM ad thread Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 09-06-2015 08:36 PM                     I can confirm My Fair Lady absolutely had at least 1 mag print. Don't recall if it was A or SR though. Michael - thanks for the SR counts. Amazing research as always. I never realized they went to all that trouble to do an SR encode for just one or two prints.  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 09-08-2015 01:16 PM                     quote: Steve Guttag "My Fair Lady" restoration (Bob Harris) was a magnetic SR release quote: Brad Miller I can confirm My Fair Lady absolutely had at least 1 mag print. Don't recall if it was A or SR though. There were at least four 70mm prints struck for North America for the 1994 restoration/re-release of "My Fair Lady." Sound format according to restoration producer Bob Harris was A (with split surrounds). Newspaper advertising I've seen corroborates the Dolby A claim.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-08-2015 04:31 PM                     I'm reasonably certain that it was SR though I'm sure we wouldn't have advertised that anymore than we did for Lawrence of Arabia in 70mm SR. I absolutely HATED the "restored" My Fair Lady 70mm mix...they took the original panned dialog and put LC into L and RC into R...it sounded down right silly at the Uptown...ones voice only matched up if they were in the center or on the opposite sides of the screen. Did Bob actually note that the release prints were A and not SR or just there wasn't notation about being SR?  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 09-08-2015 06:14 PM                     Steve.... When I asked Bob about the 70mm sound formats of his restorations (in 1999 while conducting research for a 70mm-themed magazine article), he stated "Lawrence" and "Spartacus" were SR and that "My Fair Lady" was A. (And "Vertigo" was DTS.)  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 04-26-2016 01:41 PM                     Here are a few more 70mm newspaper ads for the Tucson naysayers....  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 08-07-2017 04:19 PM                 It has been 468 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 08-07-2017 04:19 PM                     70mm prints were aplenty in '82! Here's what the Hollywood zone of L.A. looked like during the final week of June of that year.  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 08-07-2017 11:06 PM                     I saw all the films at the Hollywood theatres listed in Michael's post that June, with the exception of The Road Warrior, which I had seen at the Vogue in 70mm before it moved over to the Fox. Annie was the worst quality of the 70mm blow-ups. VERY grainy. A 35mm preview of Secret of Nimh showed first. Rocky III was blown up to full width from it's 1.85 35mm version. 35mm previews were shown before Rocky III started, with no curtain calls between them, just an opening up of masking. Star Trek II had a 70mm preview of World According to Garp and this time the curtains closed between preview and feature. E.T. ran a preview of The Thing (can't remember if it was 70 or not). I do remember the screen masking being open full for ET, event though it was 1.85). I THINK The Thing was preceeded with a preview of Best Little Whorehouse at the Pacific, even though the film ended up at the Paramount. A 35mm preview of the 3-D "thriller" Parasite unspooled before Poltergeist. (Parasite was being cross-promoted at SRO's Holly Theatre). There was a second preview with Poltergeist. I no longer remember what it was. Blade Runner and Firefox had no previews. when I got to the Vogue for Firefox, I noticed the typed schedule backtimed the previews by 10 minutes: example: advertised time for the movie was when the feature started, when the previews started 10 minutes earlier. Except there were no previews. The manager (managers back in those days tore the tickets for their guests) told me there were no previews because you couldn't show them when you were showing 70mm movies.  |  IP: Logged

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