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Widescreen Weekend 2007 Program
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Cinerama and 70mm in all its splendour
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Text by:
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Date:
13 March 2007 |
Thursday
15 March 2007
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19:30 "Casino Royale".
Filmed in:
35mm 4 perforations, 24 frames per second.
Principal photography in: Panavision System 35. Presented in:
Anamorphic
Panavision Super 35 with 6-track digital stereo
on the flat screen.
Aspect ratio: 2,39:1. Country of origin: United Kingdom. Production year:
2006.
World Premiere: 14.11.2006 Odeon Leicester Square, London England.
Screenplay by Neal Purvis, Paul Haggis and Robert Wade. Based upon
Ian Fleming's history. Directed by Martin Campbell and produced by
Barbara Broccoli. Original Music by David Arnold. Cinematography by
Phil Meheux
Daniel Craig (James Bond), Eva Green (Vesper
Lynd), Mads Mikkelsen (Le Chiffre) and Judi Dench (M)
In person
is
Mr. David Arnold (the film's composer)
"Casino Royale" brings the James Bond franchise back to life with
a new lead and a new style. Back to basics and close to the original
text of the first book in the series, "Casino Royale" is a breath
of fresh air and that rare thing, a critical and audience hit. Daniel
Craig proves his worth in the lead as Bond is on the trail of Le Chiffre
whom he must defeat in a high stakes poker game at the Casino Royale in
Montenegro. This is the nastier side of Bond, evident in the first film,
and a thrilling piece of filmmaking.
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Gallery:
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Gallery:
Rayton
• WSW Home
• Through the Years
• The Best of WSW
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Academy of the WSW
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Creating the WSW
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Planning the WSW
• Projecting
the WSW •
Home of
CINERAMA
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Projecting CINERAMA
Internet link:
National
Media Museum
Bradford Film Festival
Cinema Theatre Association
Cinerama
Adventure
C.A. Productions
261 W. Verdugo Ave., #D
Burbank, CA 91502
Phone: (818)843-1865 |
Friday
16 March 2007
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10:00 – 11:55 “This is Cinerama”
(1:55) + intermission.
Filmed in:
3x35mm 6 perforations, 26 frames per second.
Principal photography in: Cinerama. Presented in:
On the curve in 3-strip Cinerama with 7-track magnetic stereo.
Aspect ratio: 146°. Country of origin: USA. Production year:
1952.
World Premiere: 30.09.1952 The Broadway Theatre, New York, USA.
Developed by Fred Waller. Narrated by Lowell Thomas. Supervised by
Michael Todd and Michael Todd Jr. Produced by Merian C. Cooper and
Robert L. Bendick. Music by Cinerama Philharmonic Orchestra.
Cinematography by Harry Squire.
This is the original Cinerama feature which launched the widescreen era,
here presented in a recently struck print in the original three-strip
format, with seven-track stereo sound. There is no narrative, merely a
variety of 'attractions': the famous rollercoaster ride is followed by a
series of musical and travelogue episodes culminating in an aerial tour
of America. More than a technological curio, it's a document of its era.
What is Cinerama?
Cinerama is a very complicated projection process with three projectors
electronically locked together, showing three 35mm films side by side on
the same curved screen, at the same time. Cinerama, very effectively
creates an illusion of reality, by photographing an extreme wide-angle
picture on three strips of film. Cinerama is shown on a large curved
screen like
Pictureville's. The curve is defined as being 146 degrees of a
circle. The screen is geometrically the same size as the human eye,
which when a spectator sits somewhere close to the center of the circle,
looking at the middle of the screen, he’s having A First Person
Experience. He’s having the sensation he is there, right in the
middle of the action. The audience will feel a sensation of
participation.
Why does a Cinerama screen have to be deeply curved?
”If you photograph a cavalry of horses coming toward you and sweeping
past, using conventional narrow angle lenses (and this includes
CinemaScope), the camera never sees the sides of the horses. If this is
now projected on a screen, even a wide curved one, wrapped around the
audience, as the horses go off the screen, they all turn facing you and
gallop sideways. This is a subtle effect, but the fact that you never
see the sides of objects, destroys the participation effect - the sense
of being in the middle of the action.”
Brian O'Brien,
Jr. about Cinerama.
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12:45 – 16:48 “Cleopatra”
(4:03) + intermission.
Filmed in: 65mm 5 perforations, 24 frames per second.
Principal photography in: Todd-AO. Presented in:
On the curved screen in a new Todd-AO 70mm DTS print. Aspect ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: USA. Production year:
1962.
World Premiere: 12.06.1963
Rivoli,
New York, USA.
Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall and Sidney
Buchman. Based upon histories by Plutarch. Suetonius. Appian,
other ancient sources and "The Life and Times of Cleopatra," by
C. M. Franzero. Directed by Mr. Mankiewicz and produced by
Walter Wanger for 20th Century-Fox in Todd-AO.
Elizabeth Taylor (Cleopatra), Richard Burton (Mark Antony), Rex
Harrison (Julius Caesar), Hume Cronyn (Sosigenes) Martin Landau
(Rutio) and Roddy McDowall (Octavian)
A magnificent spectacle with a majestic, multitudinous cast,
"Cleopatra" is arguably the biggest, brashest, most
sprawling historical epic in modern movie history. Famously
begun by Rouben Mamoulian and then shelved due to the illness of
star Elizabeth Taylor, the film was re-started with a different
director (Joe Mankiewicz) and a new cast that saw Richard Burton
replace Keith Baxter and Rex Harrison take over from Peter
Finch. The resulting motion picture is one of the all-time
costume extravaganzas – a gigantic, OTT slice of Hollywoodery
with the added sparkle of witnessing the Taylor/Burton dalliance
explode into a full-blown love affair. Based on Carlo Mario
Franzero’s biography, "Cleopatra" is more than just a
lavish blockbuster; it is an example of runaway filmmaking at
its most uncontrolled.
What about Todd-AO?
Todd-AO is 70mm film, projected on BIG screens. 70mm film
guarantees rock-steady picture quality, thanks to the large
image area and high frame rate. The negative is 4 times lager
than standard 35mm film (1,85:1). The 70mm film format is often
associated with the big epics and musicals from the 1960s.
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17:00 Reception for weekend delegates in the Kodak Gallery |
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18:00 Digital Cinema - is it worth it?
Demonstration. Digital presentation.
A forum with several clips on digital plus a chance to debate the
digital vs film argument. Darren Briggs from
Arts
Alliance will take part in the debate.
The name of the event is 'DIGITAL CINEMA - IS IT WORTH IT?' Darren
Briggs will be doing a PP presentation to give some background to
digital cinema, combined with many digital clips to show its versatility
and quality, and the fact that it caters to all existing cinema ratios
1.33, 1.85, 2.35 etc. We will also do a direct digital/film comparison
of a recent movie with full 5.1 sound from both.
The overall aim is to show that digital cinema can sit quite comfortably
alongside film and that the quality of digital can be extremely high,
well worth watching and allows for good presentation etc.
It will be opened up to questions from the audience near the end as
normal. All clips will be on the flat screen and we will do a 10min
digital presentation on the curved screen during Cineramacana Sunday
morning.
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20:00 – 22:07 “Indiana Jones Last Crusade”
(2:07).
Filmed in: 35mm 4 perforations, 24 frames per second.
Principal photography in: Panavision. Presented in:
On the flat screen in Panavision 70mm with 6-track Dolby stereo with
split surrounds.
Aspect ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: USA. Production year:
1988.
World Premiere: 24.05.1989 New York, USA.
Screenplay by
George Lucas and Philip Kaufman.
Directed by
Steven Spielberg.
Produced by George Lucas and Robert Watts. Music
by John Williams. Cinematography by Douglas Slocombe. Film
Editing by Michael Kahn.
Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones), Sean Connery (Professor Henry
Jones), Denholm Elliott (Dr. Marcus Brody), Alison Doody (Dr.
Elsa Schneider) John Rhys-Davies (Sallah) and Julian Glover
(Walter Donovan).
Steven Spielberg pulled off a stroke of genius by casting Sean
Connery as Indiana Jones’s crusty old dad. Connery steals the
film – a tough call when the plotline has Indy criss-crossing
the globe in search of the Holy Grail. Arguably the best of the
series, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade combines Arthurian
myth with the 1930s Nazi milieu that made the first film so
atmospheric. There is genuine chemistry between the two leads,
Denholm Elliott supplies the comedy and Alison Doody makes for a
suitably icy femme fatale. It is the setpieces, though, that
remain in the memory: an aerial escape from a zeppelin, a
white-knuckle tank chase and the final challenges of the film’s
last reel – “Only the penitent man will pass”. Superb.
In person is Mrs. Carin Anne Strohmaier who was Assistant
Editor on "Indiana Jones Last Crusade".
Carin-Anne Strohmaier, Executive Producer "Cinerama
Adventure" on
imdb.com.
Carin-Anne has worked for the last 15 years at major studios as
an assistant editor and associate editor. Among her numerous
editing credits are, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit",
"Back to the Future
2" and "Back to the Future 3", "The Rocketeer",
"Forrest Gump", and "Contact"
(several scenes in
"Contact" were filmed in 65mm. VistaVision were used on many scenes
in "Forrest Gump"). Her interest in film history
documentaries is as strong as husband David's, as she has been
acting as executive producer on this project, balancing creative
duties with administrative on this 3 year project.
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Saturday
17 March 2007
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10:00 – 11:43 “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” (1:43).
Filmed in:
35mm 4 perforations, 24 frames per second.
Principal photography in: Panavision widescreen. Presented in:
On the flat screen in 70mm with 6-track Dolby stereo with split
surrounds.
Aspect ratio: 1,85:1. Country of origin: USA. Production year:
1987.
World Premiere: 22.06.1988 Los Angels, USA.
Produced by: Don Hahn and Frank Marshall. Original Music by Alan
Silvestri. Cinematography by: Dean Cundey. Film Editing by Arthur
Schmidt. Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Bob Hoskins (Eddie Valiant), Christopher Lloyd (Judge Doom), Joanna
Cassidy (Dolores), Charles Fleischer (Roger Rabbit/Benny The
Cab/Greasy/Psycho (voice)) and Kathleen Turner (Jessica Rabbit (voice))
In
person is Mrs. Carin Anne Strohmaier
Forget Mary Poppins and those Disney movies with cute penguins, this is
where the fun is! The 1947 Hollywood film industry depends upon toons,
indestructible cartoon characters. Roger Rabbit, one of the best, is
distracted as he suspects his wife is unfaithful. The studio boss
employs a private eye, Hoskins, to check up for him. One of the finest
interactions between animation and live action.
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12:30 “Larger than Life” (1:00) Making of “Cinerama Adventure”.
Starring director Dave Strohmaier and producer Randy Gitsch
Photo: Dave Strohmaier, Director of full length documentary "Cinerama
Adventure".
David Strohmaier (Director-Editor-Writer) on
imdb.com
David Strohmaier has long been a film history buff, even before
graduating from film school in the early 1970s and starting his career
at Warner Brothers. As film and Avid editor for major studios such as
Disney and 20th Century-Fox, he worked on many movies of the week,
series pilots and episodes, including EPCOT documentaries at Disney and
two CircleVision films made for their theme parks. Some of his more
notable editing credits are "Northern Exposure", "Dangerous
Minds", and
three Alien Nation television movies. David also served as the
historical consultant to Paul Allen's Seattle Cinerama theatre
restoration project.
His highly acclaimed 2003 documentary, "Cinerama Adventure", played in
festivals across the country and has helped launch a whole new
generation of Cinerama and widescreen enthusiasts. Martin Scorsese
called it, "Wonderful." Michael Wilmington of the Chicago Tribune
described it as "A fascinating chronicle," and Vanity Fair found
"Cinerama Adventure" to be "Superb, full of humor, drama and genuine
pathos, a surprisingly human tale."
Besides directing, writing and editing "Cinerama Adventure", David edited
many episodes of Columbia/Tri-Star TV's "Strong Medicine" (Lifetime
series), "Don't Look Under The Bed" (Disney movie of the week ),
"Kronenberg Chronicles" (pilot for FX), "New Fantasy Island" (ABC TV
series), "Hotel Del Sol" (pilot for UPN), "The Pastor's Wife" (Fox/CBS
pilot), "Sherlock Holmes Returns" (CBS movie), and "Stringer" (Showtime
feature).
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13:30 – 14:17 “Cinerama Adventure”
(1:37).
Filmed in: video, 25 frames per second.
Principal photography in: all sorts of video formats. Presented in:
On the flat screen in 35mm Dolby Digital.
Aspect ratio: 1,75: 1 - 1,85:1. Country of origin: USA. Production year:
2003.
World Premiere: 22.08.2003 - 28.08.2003, Arclight Hollywood, Los Angels, USA
(Academy Award qualifying run).
The work-in-progress version was first shown on 7 August 1998 at the
Hollywood Film Festival.
Produced, written and edited by: Dave Strohmaier. Produced by: Randy
Gitsch. Original Music by William Stromberg & John Morgan. Camera: Gerald Saldo and many
others.
Debbie Reynolds, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach, Louis de Rochemont III,
Michael Todd Jr., and Russ Tamblyn (as
themselves).
Complete Credits
THE CINERAMA ADVENTURE is a 96 minute documentary celebrating the long
lost three-camera three-projector cinematic process which thrilled
millions of baby boomers around the globe in the 1950s and early 60s.
Though abandoned in 1966, the Cinerama process still brings back fond,
and sometimes passionate, memories to millions of Baby Boomers - of
sweeping aerials, world travel, thrilling roller coaster rides, and
other virtual reality experiences designed to lift the audience out of
their theatre seats and into the action.
Using unusual filmclips that have not been seen for over 40 years, "Cinerama Adventure" will take you behind the scenes for the human
interest stories of the trials ans triumphs that were involved in making
theses films: stories of hair rasing danger, international intrigue,
critical injury and death.
"Cinerama Adventure" is a dramatic and nostalgic look back at forgotten
era in film history. Cinerama forever changed the way we see and hear
movies and single handedly thrust the entire film industry into the wide
screen stereo sound era that is with us to this day.
Review
I have seen
"Cinerama Adventure" several times and enjoyed it very much. A
feature lenght documentary about wide screen is very rare, and the
Cinerama process certainly deserves this tribute. The amount of
information collected for this production is amazing and much of it
shows up in the form of interviews with the people behind the process as
they experienced it.
Having had the privileged to work with Mr. David Strohmaier on this
production I am probably biased a bit, but "Cinerama Adventure"
is a unique and VERY thrilling ride through memory lane about a world
long gone. I was born in 1963 when Cinerama was nearly gone, and have
never experienced the original buzz of the process. Having read about
the format for 20 years and seen the process projected in Bradford and
Dayton, I can only say that "Cinerama Adventure" gives the viewer
a fantastic insight to Waller's Wonder and a taste of showmanship "three
times the normal size".
If you have the slightest interest in wide screen history - go see
"Cinerama Adventure". A return engagement in Pictureville in a
pristine 1.85:1, 35mm print with 5.1 Dolby SRD track. This is the
recently retelecined theatrical version, instead of the Beta SP work
picture which was screened in
2002. I highly recommend the film.
Thomas Hauerslev, www.in70mm.com
Visit the official
website
and on
imdb.com
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15:15 Lecture: Richard Gray from the
Cinema Theatres Association (30 min).
Richard
Gray was chairman of the Cinema Theatre
Association for many years and wrote a book called
"Cinemas in Britain"
Following last year’s introduction to the work of The Projected Picture
Trust by Dion Hanson, we are delighted to welcome Richard Gray to talk
about the work of the Cinema Theatre Association. The CTA was set up in
1967 by journalist Eric George, who wished to see more attention paid to
the magnificent movie palaces of the 1920s and ‘30s, which were then
starting to disappear from Britain’s towns and cities. Since then the
CTA has widened its horizons to encompass the study of all cinema
buildings, live theatres, music halls and those entertainment centres
now used for bingo or other purposes. All aspects of cinemas and
theatres are studied including architecture, decoration, film projection
and stage facilities. Consideration is given to their study in terms of
the history of entertainment, social history, industrial archaeology and
architectural history.
The Cinema Theatre Association
The Cinema Theatre Association was started in 1967 by journalist Eric
George, who wished to see more attention paid to the magnificent movie
palaces of the Twenties and Thirties which were then starting to
disappear from our towns and cities. Since then, the Association has
widened its horizons to encompass the study of all cinema buildings,
however humble, as well as live theatres, music halls and those
entertainment buildings now in use as bingo halls or for other purposes.
The Association campaigns for the preservation and continued use of
cinemas and theatres for their original purpose. All aspects of cinemas
and theatres are studied, including architecture, decoration, film
projection and stage facilities. Consideration is given to their study
in terms of the history of entertainment, social history, industrial
archaeology and architectural history.
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16:15 - 18:52 “How the West Was Won”
(2:42) + intermission.
Filmed in:
3x35mm 6 perforations, 26 frames per second.
Principal photography in: Cinerama. Presented in:
On the curve in 3-strip Cinerama with 7-track magnetic stereo.
Aspect ratio: 146°. Country of origin: USA. Production year:
1961.
World Premiere: 01.11.1962 Casino, London, England.
Written by James R. Webb. Produced by Bernard Smith. Original Music by
Ken Darby and Alfred Newman. Cinematography by William H. Daniels,
Milton R. Krasner, Charles Lang and Joseph LaShelle. Directed by John
Ford, Henry Hathaway and George Marshall.
Carroll Baker (Eve Prescott Rawlings), Lee J. Cobb (Marshal Lou Ramsey),
Henry Fonda (Jethro Stuart), Gregory Peck (Cleve Van Valen), Debbie
Reynolds (Lilith 'Lily' Prescott), James Stewart (Linus Rawlings), Eli
Wallach (Charlie Gant)
There are westerns and there westerns.
"How the
West Was Won" is something very special on the deep curved
Cinerama screen and 7 track stereo sound. Thanks to generous
contributions from many of the fans, we have been able to keep this
excellent print going to present the best three strip Cinerama film ever
made. A hit at the Festival year after year, we just can't let this
classic lie dormant. Bringing together three of the best Hollywood
western directors, "How the West Was Won" tells the story of the
development of the west from a pioneering family from the 1830s to the
Civil War. The panoramic scenes across the three panels and the full
curved screen are spectacular and the lift from Alfred Newman's
extraordinary score is exhilarating. Cinerama is the only way to see the
film, everything else palls by comparison.
"How the West was Won" is presented in a superbly well-preserved,
vintage 3-strip print with a 7-channel stereo soundtrack.
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65/70mm Workshop - second seminar -
Agenda 2007
The
65/70mm Workshop - Brian Guckian (left) and Mike Taylor (Right). The third member is Ramon Lamarca
Marques, who is absent during Widescreen Weekend.
Second 65/70mm Workshop meeting
at the Pictureville Cinema. Conference room is "On Location" on the top
floor.
16:30 - 18:30. Chaired
by:
Brian Guckian and Mike
Taylor
65mm Production
Cinematography:- 65mm Skills / Use of the Wide Angle
Sound Recording and Reproduction:- Recording Techniques / Uncompressed
Digital Audio / Archiving Issues / Magnetic
Sound Striping Update
Economics:- Progress Report
Theatrical Presentation
General:- Amazing Audiences / Creating a Premier Experience / Premier
Venues &
Non-cinema Venues / Affiliates
Print Issues:- Existing access to Archive Prints / New print sources &
Special venue prints/
Restored Print circulation / Shipping costs and techniques
Technical:- Maintaining Quality and Consistency / Training / Curved
Screens [New information]
Marketing / Showmanship:- Theatrical Ethos / Mike Todd's techniques
[Select performances, special brochures etc.]
Industry Promotion
General:- Bringing Producers & Exhibitors together / Fostering interest
from major Filmmakers
Issues Raised by Participants
Have Your Say! Creative Ideas Welcomed, Appreciated and Recorded
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19:30 – 22:44 “Titanic”
(3:14).
Filmed in: 35mm 4 perforations, 24 frames per second.
Principal photography in: Panavision. Presented in:
on the flat screen in a Panavision 70mm DTS.
Aspect ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: USA. Production year:
1997.
World Premiere: 14.12.1997 Los Angeles, USA.
Written, produced and Directed by James Cameron
Original Music by James Horner. Cinematography by Russell Carpenter.
Film Editing by Conrad Buff, James Cameron and Richard A. Harris
Leonardo DiCaprio (Jack Dawson), Kate Winslet (Rose DeWitt Bukater),
Billy Zane (Caledon 'Cal' Hockley), Kathy Bates (Molly Brown), Frances
Fisher (Ruth Dewitt Bukater), Gloria Stuart (Old Rose), Bill Paxton
(Brock Lovett) and Bernard Hill (Captain Smith)
Ten years on from its American release and by far the biggest film of
all time, "Titanic" is still one of the best reasons this year to go to
the movies, especially with the enhancement of the digital sound
experience in Pictureville Cinema and the inadequacies of the film’s
video version. James Cameron’s epic was nominated for 14 Oscars and won
11 including best picture, best director and best cinematography. It
deserved them all, though the stand-out performance by Gloria Stuart, as
the aged heroine of 1912, was overlooked. She was 87 at the time of her
nomination; now 97, she still makes the occasional appearance in movies.
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Sunday
18 March 2007
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10:00 – 12:30 Cineramacana including a 10min digital
presentation on the curved screen, the odd surprise and the Academy of the
Widescreen Weekend presentation.
One of the most popular events of the Widescreen Weekend and a
great way to wake up on a Sunday morning, Cineramacana brings
together all those little bits and pieces that lie around in
people’s cupboards or on dusty shelves in archives and seldom
see the light of a projector. Over the years there have been
some magical discoveries and nobody knows what will be shown
until the event itself. Even then there is the occasional
surprise.
And there will just be time for the traditional
Audience on stage photograph of all the WW delegates. |
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13:00 Grant Lobban on “blow ups"
Picture: Grant Lobban, supplied by Jim Slater, BKSTS
Grant was BBC projectionist as far back as 1963, by coincidence
when "Dr Who" began too (and Jim Slater was there, but
nowhere near the projectors), and he remained at the BBC for the
rest of his career, never enjoying the pleasures of a 'proper'
cinema projection box, except on his days off. His recent 'Tales
of a BBC Projectionist' published in CT, were enough to give any
Health and Safety manager a heart-attack - just be glad that you
weren't his boss back in those days! For as long as we can all
remember Grant has been researching, writing and producing
fascinating archival material about film-related topics for the
BKSTS. He has been going to the cinema since he was a young lad,
fascinated by all the large format and widescreen developments.
He was the driving force behind many of the early film
wall charts [Film Format Posters, ed], and his long series of articles on The Restoration
Business, Showmanship, and The History of Colour Film have kept
CT readers fascinated for years, as well as forming a
magnificent reference source for any film history researchers.
He seems to have spent his life fascinated by film, and there is
little he doesn't know about any aspect of the business - he
even won a BKSTS Film Quiz against some of the most
knowledgeable people in the business. Grant never stops - the
editor of CT is always glad to have a backlog of Grant's
material ready for publication, and there are currently articles
on lenses and other film-related developments waiting in my
in-tray. Every film magazine editor should have a Grant Lobban,
and you guys at the Widescreen Weekend are in for a treat!
Jim Slater
Managing Editor Cinema Technology
Grant Lobban has also
written the definitive story about the history of 70mm film
"In the Splendour of 70mm". A story which
Richard Vetter
(of D-150
fame) has
describes as "..the most accurate and comprehensive history of
wide gauge film and 70mm....the finest contribution to wide
gauge film that has ever been recorded!"
Translated into
German by Susanne Finken, Köln.
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14:00 – 15:53 “Shalako” (1:53)
Filmed in:
35mm 4 perforations, 24 frames per second.
Principal photography in: Franscope. Presented:
On the flat screen in
Franscope
70mm with 6-track magnetic stereo.
Aspect ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: Germany. Production year:
1968.
German premiere: 06.09.1968.
Poster is from first German release. Courtesy of Herbert Born
Produced by Dimitri De Grunwald. Music by Robert Farnon. Cinematography by
Ted Moore. Edited by
Bill Blunden. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Written by Louis L'Amour (novel)
and Clarke Reynolds (screen story)
Sean Connery (Moses Zebulon 'Shalako' Carlin), Brigitte Bardot (Countess
Irina Lazaar), Stephen Boyd (Bosky Fulton), Jack Hawkins (Sir Charles
Daggett), Honor Blackman (Lady Julia Daggett, Woody Strode (Chato (Apache
chief)
Hardened Indian fighter Shalako finds himself embroiled in a new kind of
conflict when Apaches attack a hunting party of effete European aristocrats.
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16:00 Screen Talk: Q/A Euan Lloyd – producer of “Shalako”.
Born 6 December 1923, Rugby, England, UK (from
imdb.com)
Image from NMM
Mini bio written by Tony Earnshaw, NMM
Euan Lloyd broke into films as a sixteen-year-old in 1939, working
as a trainee cinema manager. After wartime service with the Royal
Armoured Corps he returned to work in the motion picture industry,
acting as a publicist for J. Arthur Rank’s Eagle-Lion Distributors on
such British classics as Olivier’s "Henry V", "This Happy Breed" and
"The Way
Ahead". By 1952, having gained experience in all areas of film
exhibition, distribution and publicity he joined Warwick Film
Productions as personal assistant to Irving Allen and Cubby Broccoli.
Warwick also provided Lloyd with his first opportunity to direct with
the short "April" in Portugal. In 1960 Lloyd was associate producer, with
Richard Widmark, of "The Secret Ways", and was appointed vice-president of
Carl Foreman’s Highroad Productions, being closely involved with the
making of "The Guns of Navarone" and "The Victors", among others. In 1967 he
struck out as a fully independent producer with the Louis L’Amour
western "Shalako", starring Sean Connery. Over the next ten years he
turned out a string of movies, all geared towards the type of all-action
entertainment Lloyd unsnobbishly liked. They included "Catlow", with Yul
Brynner, and "Paper Tiger", with David Niven. His finest hour came in 1978
with the production of the mercenary epic "The Wild Geese". A star-studded
adaptation of the bestseller by Daniel Carney, the film drew together
the talents of Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy
Kruger, director Andrew V. McLaglen and writer Reginald Rose of "12 Angry
Men" fame. It was Lloyd’s masterpiece, and became his biggest hit. One of
the most successful independent producers Britain has ever produced Euan
Lloyd will reveal some of the sensitivities of working with mega stars,
how films make their way from page to silver screen and why he was able
to conclude so many deals on a smile and a handshake.
We are delighted to welcome him back to the Bradford International Film
Festival.
Filmography (All credits as producer unless otherwise listed)
1956 April in Portugal (short) (& dir)
1959 Invitation to Monte Carlo (& dir, scr)
1961 The Secret Ways (assoc prod)
1965 Genghis Khan (assoc prod)
1966 The Poppy is also a Flower
1966 Murderer’s Row (co-prod)
1968 Shalako
1971 Catlow
1973 A Man Called Noon
1975 Paper Tiger
1978 The Wild Geese
1980 The Sea Wolves
1982 Who Dares Wins
1985 Wild Geese II
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16:00 – 17:10 “Keepers
of the Frame” (1:10)
Filmed in:
16mm 1 perforation, 24 frames per second. Presented:
On the flat screen in 16mm
mono.
Aspect ratio: 1,33:1. Country of origin: USA. Production year:
1999. Premiere: 06.03.1999 (Santa Barbara International
Film Festival).
Produced by
Randy Gitsch. Music by Steve Cornell. Cinematography by
Rich Lerner & David McLaughlin. Edited by
Roderick Kent. Directed by Mark McLaughlin. Written by Mark McLaughlin &
Randy Gitsch.
Starring Alan Alda, Roddy McDowall, Debbie Reynolds and Leonard Maltin
The return engagement of "Keepers of the
Frame". Filmmaker Randy Gitsch (on
imdb.com) will be in-person and introduce
his personal pristine 16mm print in the Cubby Broccoli
Cinema on Sunday, 18 March 2007, at 16:00.
See "Keepers of the Frame"
press kit (in developement).
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17:30 - 19:32 "Black Tights"/"Les Collants noirs" (2:09)
Filmed in: 35mm 8 perforations, 24 frames per second.
Principal photography in:
Technirama. Presented:
On the flat screen in Super Technirama 70mm with 6-track magnetic
stereo.
Aspect ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: France. Production year:
1962. English Premiere: 07.09.1961 Coliseum, London,
England. Preview title: "Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre!"
("One, Two, Three, Four!")
Produced by Joeseph Kauffmann. Cinematography by
Henri Alekan. Costume Design by Christian Dior, Yves
Saint-Laurent and Clavê Wahkevitch. Musical director Roland
Petit.Edited by Francoise Javet.
Zizi Jeanmaire (Carmen), Cyd Charisse (The Widow), Roland Petit
(Cyrano de Bergerac), Moira Shearer (Roxanne), Maurice Chevalier
(Narrator)
This film is a transposition of the most famous Roland Petit
ballets.
1: The Diamond Cruncher:
Les Halles (Central Food Market) of Paris in 1960. Surrounded by
a lot of hooligans, passive admirers, “The Diamond Cruncher”
(Zizi Jeanmaire) eats daily with their assistance, but she
discover also love with a gentleman, strangely got involved in
this peculiar environment. Song by Raymond Queneau. The best of
Zizi Jeanmaire in a cheeky and relaxed style.
2: Cyrano de Bergerac:
Paris in 1640. Cyrano de Bergerac (Roland Petit), a philosopher,
duellist and versifier, lives at Hotel de Bourgogne and works
hard to succeed in front of a musketeers audience. Her pretty
cousin, Roxane (Moira Shearer), tenderly enamoured, waits in the
audience near to Christian de Neuvillette (Georges Reich), his
bashful lover. Cyrano passionately loves Roxane and, in the
temporary camp of Arras, writes each morning love letters signed
Christian. Unfortunately Christian dies and Roxane withdraws in
a respectful retreat with the only visit of Cyrano during 15
years. But Cyrano’s enemies which don’t forgive his mischiefs
and sarcasms, will injure him. He dies pronouncing the last
words of a unfinished letter.
3 – A Merry Mourning:
La Belle Epoque – A 1900 café. A pretty blonde woman (Cyd
Charisse) “flirts” with one of his neighbours at table (Roland
Petit), because his husband (Hans Van Manen) has refused to
purchase her pretty clothes. The husband will fight a duel and
die, and the pretty blonde, quickly consoled, will put on all
pretty clothes. Typical sentimental dances of these times and
the famous French Cancan.
4 – Carmen:
Sevilla in 1830. Don Jose (Roland Petit) has made out the pretty
gipsy Carmen (Zizi Jeanmaire) and search for her a full night;
he discovers her in a gipsies cabaret. A full love night and day
is enough to give to Carmen the power to reduce Don Jose to
slavery. She imposes him to kill somebody. Hopeless, Don Jose
knifes Carmen which dies in his arms.
This translation © 20/02/2007 by Francois CARRIN. Translated
from Internet Les Fiches du Cinéma.
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20:00 – 22:18 “Those Magnificent men in Their Flyin Machines, or how
I flew From London to Paris in 25 hours and 11 Minutes“ (2:18) +
Intermission.
Filmed in: 65mm 5 perforations, 24 frames per second.
Principal photography in: Todd-AO. Presented in:
On the curved screen in a new Todd-AO 70mm DTS print. Aspect ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: USA. Production year:
1965.
World Premiere: 03.06.1965 Astoria, London, England
Produced and written by Jack Davies. Music by Ron Goodwin.
Cinematography by Christopher Challis Edited by Anne V. Coates
and Gordon Stone. Written and
Directed by Ken Annakin.
Stuart Whitman (Orvil Newton), Sarah Miles (Patricia Rawnsley),
James Fox (Richard Mays), Alberto Sordi (Count Emilio Ponticelli),
Robert Morley (Lord Rawnsley), Gert Fröbe (Colonel Manfred von
Holstein), Jean-Pierre Cassel (Pierre Dubois), Irina Demick
(Brigitte/Ingrid/Marlene/Françoise/Yvette/Betty), Eric Sykes
(Courtney), Red Skelton (Neanderthal Man), Terry-Thomas (Sir
Percy Ware-Armitage) and Benny Hill (Fire Chief Perkins)
This is a film that created a genre, leading to "It’s a Mad
Mad Mad Mad World", "Smokey and the Bandit" and
"Wacky Races" to name just three imitators. It’s 1910 and
the world is suddenly getting smaller. A newspaper baron
sponsors a London to Paris air race and unleashes upon the world
a wild range of aspiring but mad pilots all determined by fair
means or foul to be the first to complete the flight in bizarre
machines that may fly, but probably not for long. With a gem of
a performance from Terry - Thomas, and cameos from Tony Hancock
and Benny Hill, the humour is as strong as the mayhem. Surely
time for a new print for this comedy classic.
What is Todd-AO?
"TODD-AO 70mm film, plus the TODD-AO special camera, plus the
TODD-AO newly developed 6 channel high fidelity magnetic sound,
plus the TODD-AO "all purpose" 70mm projector and the great
arched TODD-AO screen equal the most revolutionary of all screen
inventions, with clarity of perspective, detail and color
reproduction never before achieved. As a result, with TODD-AO,
audience participation now has its fullest and truest
expression. Todd-AO is the dream of Michael Todd, plus the
technical skills of the American Optical Company whose research
staff headed by Dr. Brian O'Brien, jointly succeeded in
developing "a motion picture system that would photograph action
in a very wide angle....with one camera....on one strip of
film....to be projected from a single projector....on a very
wide screen....with a quality so perfect that the audience would
be part of the action, not just passive spectators.
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Monday
19 March 2007
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10:30 – 12:50 “Mayerling”
(2.20).
Filmed in: 35mm 4 perforations, 24 frames per second.
Principal photography in: Panavision. Presented:
On the flat screen in Panavision 70mm with 6-track magnetic stereo.
Aspect ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: England
& France. Production year:
1968.
English Premiere: 05.10.1968, Warner, London, England.
Written and directed by Terence Young. Produced by Robert
Dorfmann. Music by Francis Lai. Cinematography by Henri Alekan.
Edited by Monique Bonnot.
Omar Sharif (Archduke Rudolph), Catherine Deneuve (Maria Vetsera),
James Mason (Emperor Franz Joseph), Ava Gardner (Empress
Elizabeth), James Robertson Justice (Edward, Prince of Wales)
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