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Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 02-27-2002, 03:08 AM:
Just in case any of you guys out there feel the need to share your feelings about the development of Widescreen Cinema I am posting below the call for papers for a conference we are co-hosting with Sheffield Hallam University in July next year.CALL FOR PAPERS
W I D E S C R E E N C I N E M A
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Sheffield Hallam University and the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford
10-13 July, 2003
2003 sees the 50th anniversary of the introduction of CinemaScope. A significant innovation in an era of aesthetic, technological and industrial change, CinemaScope followed on from earlier, less-successful widescreen and large-screen formats and helped establish widescreen cinematography and presentation as a new norm for commercial films. It also helped spur the development of stereo sound. In order to mark the anniversary of CinemaScope, Sheffield Hallam University is organizing a conference and invites contributions on any aspect of the history, technology, aesthetics and economics of widescreen cinema and its impact on the film and media industries, culture and society. Keynote speakers will include Charles Barr, John Belton and David Bordwell, and the conference will held at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, the only public cinema outside America equipped to show Cinerama films in their original format.
Proposals should be no more than 300 words long and should include your full contact details. Proposals should be sent to Steve Neale, Research Professor in Film, Media and Communication Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, S11 8UZ, UK (e-mail: s.b.neale@shu.ac.uk). It is planned to publish a selection of papers in book form.
The deadline for proposals is November 30th 2002
Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 02-27-2002, 03:29 AM:
What a coincidence! I re-read Charles Barr's 1960s paper on Cinemascope as recently as Monday night after coming across a photocopy of it whilst looking through a box of notes dating from when I was a student on his MA course...
Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 02-27-2002, 04:40 AM:
LeoWant to book your ticket now 
Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 02-27-2002, 04:50 AM:
You might even get a paper proposal if I can (i) drag myself out of the film vault and (ii) come up with a brainwave...
Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 06-05-2003, 08:18 AM:
Here is the updated blurb on the Widescren Conference.
If anyone needs more information send me an e-mail
2003 sees the 50th anniversary of the introduction of CinemaScope. A
significant innovation in an era of aesthetic, technological and
industrial change, CinemaScope followed on from and ultimately superseded earlier large_screen formats such as Cinerama, and helped establish widescreen cinematography and presentation as a new norm for commercial films.
It also helped spur the development of stereo sound.
In order to mark the anniversary of CinemaScope, Sheffield Hallam
University and the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television are hosting an international conference on all aspects of the history, technology,aesthetics and economics of widescreen cinema and its impact on the film and media industries, culture and society. Over thirty speakers will be giving papers,including Charles Barr, John Belton, David Bordwell, Marshall Deutelbaum, Joanne Hollows, Mark Jancovich, Peter Krämer, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, V.F.Perkins, Douglas Pye, Tom Ryall and Maureen Turim.
The conference will also include a number of related screenings, including Cinerama films shown in their original three-strip format.
Thursday 10 July
4.00 Screening: Land of the Pharaohs (PC)
4.00 Screening: Yesterday's Enemy (CBC)
7.00 Welcome + Keynote (1)
8.15 Screening: This is Cinerama (PC)
8.30 Screening: Junior Bonner (CBC)
Friday 11 July
9.00-6.15 Five panels
7.30 Screening: The Cardinal (PC)
8.00 Screening: The Big Trail (CBC) [tbc]
Saturday 12 July
9.30-12.30 Keynote (2) + Panel
1.30 Screening: How the West Was Won (PC)
2.00 Screening: The Red Desert (CBC)
4.45-6.30 Panel
7.45 Screening: The Miracle of Todd-AO + The Last Valley (PC)
8.00 Screening: Death by Hanging or The Hidden Fortress (CBC) [tbc]
Sunday 13 July
9.30-4.15 Keynote (3) + Three panels
4.30 Screening: 2001: A Space Odyssey (PC)
4.30 Screening: The Savage Innocents (CBC)
Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 06-28-2003, 03:29 AM:
Here is the final conference programme including(revised) list of titles being screened.
http://www.nmpft.org.uk/film/ws_weekend.asp#k1
Posted by Will Kutler (Member # 770) on 06-28-2003, 04:03 PM:
What projector was used for 70 formats in the 1950's prior to the introduction of the Century JJ in 1960?
Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 06-28-2003, 06:33 PM:
THe granddaddy of them offcourse the phillips AA2 (DP70)
the prototype film dailies were screened apparently on a converted ernamann
The other machines before the JJ were the Bauer U2 (national70)
The Victoria 10
Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 07-02-2003, 10:17 AM:
Links to history of DP70 and Todd-AO 70mm:
http://www.dp70.com/
http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/wingto1.htm