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Super Technirama 70
Super Technirama 70 was the marketing name for a special type of deluxe film exhibition that was most popular in the 1960s. It was the 70 mm version of the Technirama exhibition format. Unlike Super Panavision 70 and Ultra Panavision 70, Super Technirama 70 films were not actually photographed on 65 mm film stock, but rather a specialized 35 mm film process that was then blown up to 70 mm prints for use on curved Cinerama-type screens. History and description In the late 1950s, 70 mm film exhibitions were very popular, due to the large screen size and thunderous soundtrack. In 1959, Walt Disney was interested in using a prestigious 70 mm release of his film ''Sleeping Beauty'', and this was the first use of Super Technirama 70. The same year, the live action '' Solomon and Sheba'' was released with Super Technirama 70 prints. As the technique was still relatively new, the films only credited it as traditional Technirama, however the promotional materials heavily advertised t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Technirama
__NOTOC__ Technirama is a screen process that has been used by some film production houses as an alternative to CinemaScope. It was first used in 1957 but fell into disuse in the mid-1960s. The process was invented by Technicolor and is an anamorphic process with a screen ratio the same as revised CinemaScope (2.35:1) (which became the standard), but it is actually 2.25:1 on the negative. Technical The Technirama process used a film frame area twice as large as CinemaScope. This gave the former a sharper image with less photographic grain. Cameras used 35mm film running horizontally with an 8-perforation frame, double the normal size, exactly the same as VistaVision. VistaVision cameras were sometimes adapted for Technirama. Technirama used 1.5:1 anamorphic curved mirror optics in front of the camera lens (unlike CinemaScope's cylindrical lenses which squeezed the image in a 2:1 ratio). In the laboratory, the 8-perforation horizontal negative would be reduced optically, incorpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
55 Days At Peking
''55 Days at Peking'' is a 1963 American epic historical war film dramatizing the siege of the foreign legations' compounds in Beijing (then still Peking, in English) during the Boxer Uprising, which took place in China in the summer of 1900. It was produced by Samuel Bronston for Allied Artists, with a screenplay by Philip Yordan and Bernard Gordon, and with uncredited contributions from Robert Hamer, Julian Halevy, and Ben Barzman. Noel Gerson wrote a screenplay novelization in 1963 under the pseudonym "Samuel Edwards". The film was directed primarily by Nicholas Ray, although Guy Green and Andrew Marton assumed leadership in the latter stages of filming after Ray had fallen ill. Both men were uncredited. It stars Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and David Niven, with supporting roles by Flora Robson, John Ireland, Leo Genn, Robert Helpmann, Harry Andrews, and Kurt Kasznar. It also contains the first known screen appearance of future martial arts film star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motion Picture Film Formats
In physics, motion is when an object changes its position with respect to a reference point in a given time. Motion is mathematically described in terms of displacement, distance, velocity, acceleration, speed, and frame of reference to an observer, measuring the change in position of the body relative to that frame with a change in time. The branch of physics describing the motion of objects without reference to their cause is called ''kinematics'', while the branch studying forces and their effect on motion is called '' dynamics''. If an object is not in motion relative to a given frame of reference, it is said to be ''at rest'', ''motionless'', ''immobile'', '' stationary'', or to have a constant or time-invariant position with reference to its surroundings. Modern physics holds that, as there is no absolute frame of reference, Isaac Newton's concept of '' absolute motion'' cannot be determined. Everything in the universe can be considered to be in motion. Motion applies to va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audiovisual Introductions In 1959
Audiovisual (AV) is electronic media possessing both a sound and a visual component, such as slide-tape presentations, films, television programs, corporate conferencing, church services, and live theater productions. Audiovisual service providers frequently offer web streaming, video conferencing, and live broadcast services. The professional audio visual industry has companies that provide hardware, software and services. These organizations are commonly referred to as ''systems integrators'' and perform both the installation and integration of different types of AV equipment from multiple manufacturers into spaces to create the AV experience for the user or audience. Computer-based audiovisual equipment is often used in education, with many schools and universities installing projection equipment and using interactive whiteboard technology. Components Aside from equipment installation, two significant elements of audiovisual are wiring and system control. If either of thes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd-AO
Todd-AO is an American post-production company founded in 1953 by Mike Todd and Robert Naify, providing sound-related services to the motion picture and television industries. The company retains one facility, in the Los Angeles area. Todd-AO is also the name of the widescreen, 70 mm film format that was developed by Mike Todd and the Naify brothers, owners of United Artists Theaters in partnership with the American Optical Company in the mid-1950s. Todd-AO had been founded to promote and distribute this system. History Todd-AO began as a high resolution widescreen film format. It was co-developed in the early 1950s by Mike Todd, a Broadway producer, and United Artists Theaters in partnership with the American Optical Company in Buffalo, New York. It was developed to provide a high definition single camera widescreen process to compete with Cinerama, or as characterized by its creator, "Cinerama outta one hole." Where Cinerama used a complicated setup of three separ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of 70 Mm Films
The following movies were filmed using 65mm or 70mm negative stock. Titles are followed by the photographic process(es) employed. Releases produced in Todd-AO, Todd-70, Super Panavision 70 (also known as Panavision 70), Panavision System 65 (also known as Panavision Super 70), Dimension 150, Arri 765 and Superpanorama 70 (also known as MClS 70 and MCS Superpanorama 70) were photographed with spherical optics on 65 mm film with five perforations per frame, yielding an aspect ratio of 2.20:1. Sovscope 70 and DEFA 70 releases were identical with the exception that they were photographed on 70 mm negative stock. MGM Camera 65 (later renamed to Ultra Panavision 70) releases employed the same film format, but the use of 1.25X anamorphic optics yielded a super-wide aspect ratio of approximately 2.75:1. 70 mm Cinerama releases were projected with special optics onto a deeply curved screen in an attempt to mimic the effect of the original 3-strip Cinerama process. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Technirama Films
Films made using the Technirama or Super Technirama process are listed below. Note that the only difference between the two is the choice of gauge (35 mm or 70 mm) for the projection print: all Technirama and Super Technirama films are shot using the identical horizontal 35 mm movie film, 35 mm anamorphic process. All Super Technirama films were also released on 35 mm prints and thus can also be considered Technirama films. Films Films exhibited in Super Technirama are shown in bold. *''The Monte Carlo Story'' (1956) *''Davy (film), Davy'' (1957) *''Night Passage (film), Night Passage'' (1957) *''Escapade in Japan'' (1957) *''It Happened in Rome'' (1957) *''Legend of the Lost'' (1957) *''Sayonara'' (1957) *''Anna of Brooklyn'' (1958) *''Auntie Mame (film), Auntie Mame'' (1958) *''The Big Country'' (1958) *''Les Misérables (1958 film), Les Misérables'' (1958) *''The Love Specialist'' (1958) *''The Naked Maja (film), The Naked Maja'' (1958) *''Paris Holiday (1958 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Cauldron (film)
''The Black Cauldron'' is a 1985 American animated dark fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions in association with Silver Screen Partners II and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is loosely based on the first two books in '' The Chronicles of Prydain'' by Lloyd Alexander, a series of five novels that are in turn based on Welsh mythology. Set in the mythical land of Prydain during the Early Middle Ages, the film centers on a wicked emperor known as the Horned King, who hopes to secure an ancient magical cauldron that will aid him in his desire to conquer the world. He is opposed by young swineherder Taran, the young Princess Eilonwy, the harp-playing bard Fflewddur Fflam, and a friendly wild creature named Gurgi, who seek to destroy the cauldron to prevent the Horned King from ruling the world. The film is directed by Ted Berman and Richard Rich, who had directed Disney's previous animated film ''The Fox and the Hound'' (1981), and was the first Disn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Custer Of The West
''Custer of the West'' is a 1967 American epic Western film directed by Robert Siodmak that presents a highly fictionalised version of the life and death of George Armstrong Custer, starring Robert Shaw as Custer, Robert Ryan, Ty Hardin, Jeffrey Hunter, and Mary Ure. It is the first film production from Cinerama Releasing Corporation. The film was shot entirely in Spain. Plot With no better offers to be had, famous American Civil War upstart officer George Armstrong Custer takes over the Western Cavalry maintaining the peace in the Dakotas. He soon learns that the U.S. treaties are a sham, that Indian lands are being stolen and every excuse for driving them off their hunting grounds is being encouraged. With his wife Elizabeth, Custer goes in and out of favor in Washington while failing to keep wildcatting miners like his own deserting Sergeant Mulligan from running off to prospect for gold in Indian country. After trying to humble the prideful Indian warrior Dull Knife C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Golden Head
''The Golden Head'' is a 1964 American- Hungarian comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and James Hill and starring George Sanders, Buddy Hackett, Jess Conrad, Lorraine Power and Robert Coote. Plot Michael Stevenson, the famous English crime expert, travels to Hungary for an international crime conference, where he also takes his family. While he is at the conference, his family members visit cities along their route. In the meantime, the priceless golden head of St. Ladislaus is stolen, and suspicion turns to the Stevenson children. The children embark on an investigation to prove their innocence. Cast * George Sanders as Basil Palmer * Buddy Hackett as Lionel Pack * Jess Conrad as Michael Stevenson * Lorraine Power as Milly Stevenson * Robert Coote as Braithwaite * Denis Gilmore as Harold Stevenson * Cecília Esztergályos as Anne * Douglas Wilmer as Detective Inspector Stevenson * Sándor Pécsi as Priest * Zoltán Makláry as Old Man Production Its Hungarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zulu (1964 Film)
''Zulu'' is a 1964 British epic film, epic historical drama film depicting the 1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift between a detachment of the British Army and the Zulu Kingdom, Zulu, in the Anglo-Zulu War. The film was directed and co-written by American screenwriter Cy Endfield. He had moved to the United Kingdom in 1951 for work after being blacklisted in Hollywood. It was produced by Stanley Baker and Endfield, with Joseph E. Levine as executive producer. The screenplay was by Endfield and historical writer John Prebble, based on Prebble's 1958 ''Lilliput (magazine), Lilliput'' article "Slaughter in the Sun". The film stars Stanley Baker and introduces Michael Caine in his first major role, with a supporting cast that includes Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Nigel Green, Paul Daneman, Glynn Edwards, Ivor Emmanuel, and Patrick Magee (actor), Patrick Magee. Zulu chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi (a future South African political leader) played Zulu King Cetshwayo kaMpande, his gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Long Ships (film)
''The Long Ships'' is a 1964 Anglo– Yugoslav adventure film shot in Technirama directed by Jack Cardiff and starring Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn and Rosanna Schiaffino. Plot The story centres on an immense golden bell named the Mother of Voices, which may or may not exist. Moorish king Aly Mansuh is convinced that it does. Having collected all the legendary material about it that he can, he plans to mount an expedition to search for it. When a shipwrecked Norseman, Rolfe, repeats the story of the bell in the marketplace, and hints that he knows its location, he is seized by Mansuh's men and brought in for questioning. Rolfe insists that he does not know more than the legend itself and that the bell is most likely only a myth. He manages to escape by jumping through a window before the questioning continues under torture. After swimming back to return home, Rolfe reveals to his father Krok and his brother Orm that he did indeed hear the bell pealing on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
