Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: 70MM print listing

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Posted by Michael Cornish (Member # 6529) on 02-21-2014, 08:11 PM:

Does anyone the best way of getting a list of both 70MM 6 track prints are still floating around?

Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 02-21-2014, 09:48 PM:

In addition to Michael's question, has some 70mm prints find their way into the hands of private film collectors.? If there are large format film collectors, do they have a full 70mm projection and six track sound set ups in their homes?

-Claude

Posted by Jock Blakley (Member # 6552) on 02-22-2014, 01:42 AM:

I can provide a list for Australia. It's unfortunately really quite short [Frown]

Posted by Sean Weitzel (Member # 244) on 02-23-2014, 03:27 PM:

Claude, quite simply, yes, and yes.

Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 02-23-2014, 04:43 PM:

Brad Miller certainly has a 70mm screening room in his house. I don't know how many prints he has or has access to though.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 02-23-2014, 04:50 PM:

The crucial phrase here is "floating around".

I'm guessing that it would be possible, in theory, to compile a list of 70mm prints that are available for screening venues to rent in any given country. However, there are lots of qualifiers and variables. Many of the major non-profit archives will only let their prints out to venues that they know and trust. Those venues also have to clear the rights separately (i.e. pay the studio their booking fee and the archive a print rental fee). Prints in studios and private collections are often circulated on a similar basis. The prints out there range from those that pretty much any venue can book just by asking for them, to those which are only released for playing when an established relationship exists between the venue and the print's owner. Furthermore, this situation is changing all the time, as existing prints are discovered to be unusable (lost to VS, in most cases) and the occasional new one is struck.

What might be useful is a "70mm wiki" type site with a page for each title, on which anyone can post information they have about print availability. That would get round the problem of the site owner having to do all the work to keep the data current. In fact, there's no reason to restrict that to 70mm prints: as 35mm availability declines, such a site could potentially be useful both to the custodians of prints and to venues which want to play them.

Posted by Thomas Hauerslev (Member # 566) on 02-24-2014, 09:00 AM:

Yes, there are lists. At least I have compiled my own lists over the years after being involved with 70mm festivals since the late 1990s.

You can get a good impression of what is available from reading the festival programs in various places here: http://www.in70mm.com/library/festival/index.htm

Posted by David Kilderry (Member # 142) on 03-11-2014, 05:58 AM:

70mm in private hands was not as rare as you'd think, not many had home facilities to run it however. Even though I had 70mm at home I mostly ran it at work.

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 03-22-2014, 05:05 PM: