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Posted by Thomas Hauerslev (Member # 566) on 02-17-2001, 06:50 PM:
 
Fans of DP70/Norelco AAIIs,

I have spent the evening updating the web site with new serial numbers and installations as well as giving all pages a html brush up. Please find the web site here

Does anyone of you have any contacts in South America, Japan and India? DP70s are known to have thrilled audiences and projectionists alike in these parts of the world.

All the best and good night, Thomas

[ 04-29-2003, 05:04 AM: Message edited by: Thomas Hauerslev ]
 

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Posted by Thomas Hauerslev (Member # 566) on 08-21-2001, 03:54 AM:
 
To all fans of the DP70/Norelco AAII

The DP70 web site has been updated once again.

The DP70 web site is more than lists of cinemas and serial numbers , it is also about Todd-AO.

To inform new readers of Film-Tech about this, the DP70 web site (The project now in its 18th year) tries to locate every remaining DP70 projector. Please report serial numbers to me and I shall update the lists.

This is the mechanism serial number plate:



I also welcome pictures, which in time, will end up on the web site too.

For this “Summer 2001 update”, I have made a new list of machines that have been spotted, but the serial numbers still remains to be recorded. Please see if there are any machines/cinemas in your area.

Other web site updates I like to mention are DP70 upgrades and Todd-AO/DP70 cinema statistics 1955 – 1958

Thanks for your help, assistance, encouragement and enthusiasm.

[ 04-29-2003, 05:19 AM: Message edited by: Thomas Hauerslev ]
 

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Posted by Greg Mueller (Member # 17) on 08-21-2001, 09:22 AM:
 
For further DP70 reading, discussion and general worship. A DP70 mailing list has been set at Yahoo groups at.... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DP70ML

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Greg Mueller
Amateur Astronomer, Machinist, Filmnut
http://www.muellersatomics.com/
 

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Posted by Michael Pace (Member # 553) on 08-22-2001, 08:45 AM:
 
If anybody has access to old copies of BOXOFFICE magazine there are photos of installations of the DP70/Norelco AAII projectors.

April 9, 1962, THE MODERN THEATRE SECTION has a photo of the projection room of the SS FRANCE and one of the auditorium.

September 3,1962, has a photo of the projectors in the Odeon Theatre in Singapore.

September 26,1966 has photos of the United Artists Theatre Circuit's new Cinema 150 in Santa Clara showing the auditorium, external view and the projection room.

Regards
Michael.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 08-22-2001, 01:08 PM:
 
Yes they had many great shots of booths in those mags. International Projectionist also featured this sort of picture thing. I believe that the S.S. UNited States also had a pair of DP-70's in it as well. Check out this site as this magnificent ship still exists! http://www.ssunitedstates.org/
Also see http://hometown.aol.com/ssus2/
Mark @ GTS

 

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Posted by Thomas Hauerslev (Member # 566) on 08-25-2001, 02:05 AM:
 
Have a look at the adverts, a new page, to enjoy some old artwork here

I have also re-arranged the USA listing state by state

Please check this list and see if you live nearby to ask for the numbers

[ 04-29-2003, 05:20 AM: Message edited by: Thomas Hauerslev ]
 

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Posted by Thomas Hauerslev (Member # 566) on 09-04-2001, 02:40 AM:
 
Goodmorning everyone. I've uploaded a description of the DP70 which Philips in Holland wrote in late 1954, early 1955 at this address

It's amazing the amount of detail they put into this description.

[ 04-29-2003, 05:20 AM: Message edited by: Thomas Hauerslev ]
 

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Posted by Thomas Hauerslev (Member # 566) on 10-07-2002, 03:32 AM:
 
For the record, the URL is now www.dp70.com

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Cheers, Thomas
www.in70mm.com
www.dp70.com
www.70mm.dk
 

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Posted by Thomas Hauerslev (Member # 566) on 04-29-2003, 05:13 AM:
 
Have a look here. As you see, it is a list of cinemas currently equipped with DP70 projectors, but I need the serial number of the machines for the www.dp70.com web site.

If you can supply the serial numbers or provide internet contact information to the cinemas/projectionists, it would be greatly appreciated.

I've recently added all Mark Guldbrandsen´s 27 DP70 serial numbers to the lists, AND all other information many of you have supplied since last fall.

Keep up the good work, and please continue to send information and pictures to me.
 

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Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 04-29-2003, 09:23 AM:
 
Thanks Thomas

For adding the Picwood and Huntington Oaks Theatres to the site.

Bill
 

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Posted by Philippe Laude (Member # 79) on 05-02-2003, 08:47 AM:
 
A friend of mines runs a private screening room with 2 DP 70 in France, I don't see him listed. I'll ask for his permission and contact Thomas.
 

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Posted by System Notices (Member # 2357) on 06-18-2005, 12:59 AM:
 

It has been 777 days since the last post.

 

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Posted by Thomas Hauerslev (Member # 566) on 06-18-2005, 12:59 AM:
 
Hey friends,

A bit of information on this project. The DP70 web site is the latest incarnation of a life-long project of mine (since 1982) trying to find as many serial numbers and cinemas with the DP70/AAII Todd-AO 70mm projector.

More than 190 individuals have contributed over the years locating machines for me. They are all credited on www.in70mm.com Don´t hesitate to send me serial numbers and pictures of YOUR machines too

Please use: mr_in70mm@get2net.dk

I´ve updated the DP70 website www.dp70.com Please check out the cinemas and serial number lists.

This time I´ve made som significant changes. I´ve removed the Todd-AO material (to be moved to www.in70mm.com), simplified the navigation and started to add projector pictures. It´s a slow process, but I´m getting there.

Cheers Thomas in Denmark

PS: It´s so dark in Denmark during winter, that Danes simply have to "waste" time finding DP70s all over the world.
 

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Posted by System Notices (Member # 2357) on 05-27-2009, 01:33 AM:
 

It has been 1439 days since the last post.

 

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Posted by Thomas Hauerslev (Member # 566) on 05-27-2009, 01:33 AM:
 
"Operation DP70 Serial Number" project started in 1982 and is still very much running! The DP70 / Norelco AAII web site is still alive, and currently being updated.

You can find it here: http://www.in70mm.com/dp70/index.htm

You are all most welcome to contribute with your information and images about DP70s in your area, which I will add to the web site

Send your images and serial numbers to:


 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 05-27-2009, 11:16 AM:
 
Thomas,

Keep up the good work! One thing to note since film sales are just about dead is that most of the machines at CLACO (all but 4 to be exact) have been scrapped out and just the parts from them shelved. The main castings and bases all went to the scrap yard. Claco has no problem supplying just about any part required for the DP-70. Many new and used parts are in stock!

The oldest machine (#607) that was in the warehouse was recently completely re-finished and overhauled. It is surely the last complete rebuilt DP-70 of which I will ever have worked on! Many mods were made to it for a Hollywood Special Effects Guru including a Sony 3000 reader top mount that still allows utilization of the upper magazine, shaft encoder to drive a dubber, internal 35/70 DTS mount in place of the mag penthouse and a Kinoton Basement SRD reader. He also got the Mag Penthouse just in case. He is replacing a Bauer U-2 with this DP-70. Bauer parts are about non-existant over here in the States so he gave up trying to keep it running...

Mark
 

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Posted by Thomas Hauerslev (Member # 566) on 06-14-2009, 03:58 PM:
 
Just added more than 100 images of DP70s today. Check them out if you like:

See the country lists: http://www.in70mm.com/dp70/country/index.htm

And feel free to send me more images and serial numbers

Cheers Thomas
 

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Posted by Ben Wales (Member # 92) on 06-14-2009, 04:38 PM:
 

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Just added more than 100 images of DP70s today. Check them out if you like:

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Great work Thomas and thanks for maintaining the DP70 Spirit
 

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Posted by Joseph Matteo (Member # 4096) on 06-15-2009, 02:08 PM:
 
we just screened a dvd called lady in waiting a great documentry on the uss united states here is the url for imdb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1230471/
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 06-15-2009, 02:33 PM:
 
Restoring this ship SHOULD HAVE BEEN part of Obama's recovery plan!!! What a boost having that ship back in service would have been to this country...



From an article found on the web...
"Designed by renowned naval architect William Francis Gibbs and constructed in secrecy at Newport News, Va., the United States had several features revolutionary for her day. An aluminum superstructure meant the ship was light. And two engine rooms, with a total of four steam turbines, gave her unprecedented power. In normal service, the United States could generate 240,000 shaft hp—80,000 more than the previous speed-record holder, RMS Queen Mary—while weighing almost 30,000 tons less. Her five-blade screws were also unheard of at the time."
 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 06-15-2009, 04:22 PM:
 
I realize that the ship weighs almost as much as a DP70, but WTF?
 

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Posted by Damien Taylor (Member # 4255) on 06-15-2009, 06:44 PM:
 
Pity about her half sister, the SS America
 

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Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 06-15-2009, 06:55 PM:
 
Interesting article. It's kind of odd that the whole ship can disappear piece by piece in seas shallow enough for it to run aground. Where do the sunken parts go? Maybe they didn't actually sink there but were washed out to sea.
 

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Posted by Thomas Hauerslev (Member # 566) on 06-16-2009, 01:47 AM:
 
Did the United States have DP70? The French liner had DP70s - now at Todd-AO in H-wood. See pictures of the grand ship being cut up in Alang, India

http://www.maritimematters.com/norway.html
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 06-17-2009, 03:30 AM:
 
Geez, A 660 seat theater on that tub... They don't build em that big here on solid ground! I don't know what was on the SS United States if anything at all...

BTW: The top speed of the SS United States was 43 knots(79.12 km/hr or 49.48 mph)... Average cruise speed was around 35.5 knots or almost 41 miles an hour. I can just hear the Captain giving the steaming orders... Ok Matie, just give er gas till half way across then kill the engines and we'll coast the rest of the way over!

Mark
 

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Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 06-17-2009, 06:43 AM:
 
In fact, the United States' top speed remains a debated subject with most everyone that was famililar with her giving different numbers. It was by far, the fastest steam ship ever. Setting records for speed going either direction across the Atlantic.

I've seen her a couple of times as my travles have brought me near some of the ports where she has been docked...you can't miss those funnels. Unfortunately, it wasn't like she was in service...it just seems like people have ideas for her, sell her, move her and then the process repeats again.

I believer there is yet another entity that plans to refurb her, moderinze the accommodations and put her back into actual passenger service. The exterior will remain just about the same but the interior will be gutted (which basically is now) and redone.

Steve
 

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Posted by Pete Naples (Member # 761) on 06-17-2009, 03:31 PM:
 
43 knots?!

I am finding that very hard to believe
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 06-17-2009, 05:09 PM:
 
Actually the top speed of the SS United States was classified and the actual top speed may still be classified.

Mark
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 06-17-2009, 10:14 PM:
 

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43 knots?!

I am finding that very hard to believe [Eek!]

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The maximum speed of the United States was deliberately exaggerated, and kept obscure for many years. An impossible value of 43 knots (49 mph) was leaked to reporters by engineers after the first speed trial. The actual top speed — 38.3 knots (44.1 mph) — was not revealed until 1977.

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Her 241,000 horsepower engines allowed her to reach a top speed of 43 knots (79.12 km/hr or 49.48 mph)* at 990'6" in length, she is the largest passenger vessel ever built in the United States.
Materials in construction included over 2,000 tons of aluminum; she has a power-to-weight ratio that has never been equaled
She could steam 10,000 miles without stopping for fuel or supplies.
The ship was totally fireproof, being constructed completely of non-flammable materials (publicists were so fond of pointing out that the only wood on board were in her pianos and the chopping blocks).

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* It is now known that the SS United States achieved speeds exceeding 44
knots, or 50mph (footnote by the SS United States Foundation).

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