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THE FABRIC OF MAGIC |
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Film Projection Perfection |
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7OMM CINEMA IN LONDON |
 Visiting
70MM Cinemas of London's West End, September 1990
By Thomas Hauerslev
In September 1990, I visited
London to see and photograph the 70mm cinemas. Looking at the
pictures from London in 1990 so many years later inspired me to make a
gallery to share the images for the first time. Maybe someone will see them
and enjoy looking back at a time when things were different, and of course -
a lot better. In fact, at least 70mm better.
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70MM Cinemas Gallery |
 Dominion,
London
By Thomas Hauerslev
The Dominion on
Tottenham Ct. Road,
London. More than
2000 seats in
several floors. Once
the home of "South
Pacific" in Todd-AO
where it played for
4 years and 22
weeks. A world
record. Has been
used a live theatre
for 25-30 years,
with the occasional
film presentation in
between. |
 Empire,
Leicester Sq., London
By Thomas Hauerslev
The magnificent Empire on Leicester Square in London, England. One
of the most beautiful large cinemas of the modern age. For many years one of
the the leading 70mm houses in England. Home of many 70mm premieres
including "Far and Away", "Backdraft", "Black Rain", "Top Gun",
"Brainstorm", "Ryan's Daughter", "Doctor Zhivago" and "Ben Hur".
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Empire Cinema, Leicester Sq., London |
 70mm at the Odeon Leicester Square
By Nigel Wolland
My first involvement with the Odeon Leicester Square came in 1978 when I was
invited to help out at the Royal Film Performance, the film was Columbia
Pictures', "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", the first to be presented in 70mm Dolby at the Odeon |
 The Cinema Museum, London
By Mark Lyndon
Housed in the historic former Lambeth Workhouse, where Charlie Chaplin had spent a traumatic childhood, the Museum boasts one of the most impressive collections of cinema memorabilia in the world. |
 Visiting
the Prince Charles Cinema in London's West End
By Thomas Hauerslev
The Prince Charles Cinema have many posters on display on their facade, many
of which are of their own design. The tag "Presented in 7OMM 6 Track
Dolby Stereo" is prominently placed with BIG letters on the posters. It
is very nice to see this kind of showmanship still being used to promote
70mm in London. Take a look at their web site too - search for "70mm", and
you can see the same logos and advertising. If you are in London, do check
out their web site and go back to memory lane for some 70mm magic.
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London's West End, UK |
 Anamorphic
Weekend in London
By Mark Lyndon
And so the Pilgrim returns, oftentimes to travel great distances to bear
witness to what is surely a great spiritual as well as artistic experience.
One such Pilgrim was our own editor, Thomas Hauerslev, who traveled from
Copenhagen to London
to bear witness. As
a pilgrim, albeit
one residing within
ten minutes walk of
The BFI IMAX, it was
a pleasure to host a
fellow pilgrim. Like
Chaucer's pilgrims
before us, we were
based in Southwark. |
 The
Hateful Eight in
London at The Odeon
Leicester Square
By Mark Lyndon &
Ben Wales
Make no mistake,
this is a landmark
in the history of
the cinema. Odeon
have risen
magnificently to the
challenge of
catering to record
breaking demand to
see a film which is
the talk of the
town. We have never
seen such massive
crowds in Leicester
Square, all
determined to secure
a seat to witness
the must see film of
the year, if not the
century so far.
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The Remains of Odeon, Tottenham Court Road,
London
By John Newman
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Genre Classics
presenting 70mm in London
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Pictureville |
Harbour
Lights |
MGM
Bournemouth | Plaza | Astor |
City Screen |
ABC 1+2 Shaftbury Avenue |
MGM Bournemouth
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Dome |
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BRADFORD -
WIDESCREEN WEEKEND |
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Widescreen Weekend, Bradford, England |
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FILMS IN LONDON |
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The Golden Age of 70mm
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70mm Film Presentations in London |
 "What's
On" with Udo Heimansberg
Looking through a collection of old dust covered boxes I've found some older
"What's On"- Issues from my trips to London in 1969 and 1971/72.
My first trip to London was in August 1969. Of course my main reason was not
at all sightseeing but visiting record shops to buy soundtrack albums and
going to the movies, especially those running 70mm films. I didn't care much
about “Swinging London”- which I regret today… |
 "Star
Wars" Presented in
Dimension 150
By Derek Young
When "Star Wars"
premiered in London
in 1977, it was the
last film to be
presented in
Dimension 150 at the
Odeon Marble Arch |
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A collection of London's
7OMM Royal Premieres
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 This is Cinerama...at the London Casino
By
W. G. Altria
The London Casino Theatre was selected, after an exhaustive survey, as the best available in London for the showing of Cinerama. Nevertheless, considerable difficulties had to be overcome to make it entirely suitable for the purpose. |
 DP70
at the Casino in
London
By Peter Philips
The pictures are taken of the left hand DP70 projector and two show it laced
up with one of the reels of "Zulu". I used to know the Chief
Engineer for
Cinerama at the time
and I made several
visits to the Casino
and got shown
around. |
 Cinestage 34mm in London
When "Around the World in 80 Days" originally opened in
London, England in 1957, it was not in 70mm Todd-AO, but in
the 35mm Cinestage format. The Cinestage format was a
reduction from the 65mm 24 fps. negative with 6-track sound
coming from a separate 35mm dubber. |
 D-150, Coliseum, London
By Harry Rigby
I have just come across these two photos I took at the Coliseum in London. It shows the D150 lens nicely. |
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IMAX |
 Rogue
One: A Star Wars
Story - The IMAX
Experience
By
Ronan Nissenbaum
This was definitely the best presentation of "Rogue One" that I had seen so far
but then again I am biased towards film presentation. Firstly I'll begin with
the cons. The film was very dark at certain times, not like it wasn't being
projected bright enough, or that the print was under-exposed, it was that the
print was just far more contrasty than the digital presentations, and in some
scenes it was almost too contrasty. |
 “Interstellar”
at the BFI IMAX in London
By Ulrich
Rostek
The IMAX sequences – grainless, razor sharp, and amazingly detailed, backed
up by that marvelous almost SENSURROUND -like sound – really gave me that
hyper realistic first person experience which I not even sensed with our
beloved Cinerama. This visual impression soon dragged me into the movie –
not leaving much brain capacity to think about the one or the other logical
disruption of the plot and the somewhat overloaded storyline. |
 Interstellaring
in London
By Mark Lyndon
And yet, 70mm projection cannot be taken for granted. Even as
"Interstellar" is smashing a box office records and Hollywood film
directors are committing to 70mm principal photography and prints; there are
cinema chains that are removing, yes removing 70mm projection from their
houses. Who advises them, the captain of the Titanic?
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PEOPLE |
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David Samuelson: A
Lifetime with the Movies |
 A
Conversation with Sir Sydney Samuelson
By Thomas Hauerslev
Sydney Samuelson gives a fascinating insight about his work with the
international and British film industry in the 1960s and 70s. Sir Sydney and his three
brothers managed Samuelson Film Service in London, a company which
supplied all the technical equipment for film productions all over the
world. Their
costumers included David Lean, Stanley Kubrick, and Ken Annakin. In this conversation Sydney
reveals a little bit about what went on in the
movie business, during the time of "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Ryan's Daughter"
and may others. |
 Ken
Draper interviewed
By
Mikael Barnard
I started work at the Casino on 19 September 1954, eleven days before
opening night on 30 September. We had to pick it up quickly but we did many
rehearsals and were well prepared. I started with the début screening of
This is Cinerama, and then in 1956 we ran Cinerama Holiday. I left in 1957
for a job at MGM British Studios at Borehamwood where I worked in the
preview theatre |
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CIRCLORAMA |
 Projecting
Circlorama in London
by James Robertson
Memories of Circlorama
The true history of Circlorama 1962-65
By Stanley Long
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 Kodak
is making
investments in
introducing 65mm
film processing in
Europe
By Kodak
Kodak will open and
operate a motion
picture
film-processing lab
in New York City
later this year,
which will service
35mm, S16, Super 8
film processing and
scanning. Kodak is
also working with
partners to sustain
film processing
capabilities around
the world. In
London, Kodak is
making investments
in introducing 65mm
film processing in a
region that has seen
a huge increase in
major productions
shot on film. |
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Abbey Cinerama Theatre - Liverpool
U.K. |
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ENGLAND |
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70mm Cinema and Film in
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