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Widescreen Weekend 2009
19 - 23 March, 2009. Pictureville, Bradford, England |
Read more at
in70mm.com
The 70mm Newsletter
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Written by: Thomas Hauerslev |
Date: 25.05.2017 (Remastered) |
 We
are looking forward to seeing all of you again in Bradford in March 2009, to
see Cinerama and 70mm in
all its splendour.
We will include a new 70mm print from 20th Century Fox in its 70mm screen splendour.
We have promised to show you "Year Of The Dragon"
in 70mm this time.
We will again include the usual mix of lectures, screen talks, format demonstrations,
Dimension 150, CinemaScope 55, 3-strip Cinerama,
Super Panavision 70 and blowups on screens
in popular size and shapes.
Travel to Bradford to get the first
person experience at the Pictureville cinema in Bradford, England from
19 - 23 March, 2009.
McGregor, Lawrence & Hauerslev
2009
Film Programmers
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More in 70mm reading:
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Gallery:
2009
• 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
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Home of
CINERAMA
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Projecting CINERAMA
"Where Eagles Dare" - Cinema Retro
‘Movie Classics’ Special
"Where Eagles Dare" -
40th Anniversary 1969 - 2009
Internet link:
Reel Solutions
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 Bill Lawrence, Head of Cinema:
The Widescreen Weekend is a celebration of all that is extraordinary in large format film and has become a highlight on the film festival calendar.
I get quite a lot of feed-back from our guests in
the form of letters, e-mails and phone calls. People are very happy, they had a great time
and they think Pictureville Cinema has a nice atmosphere and is a nice place to visit.
They generally have a good time here.
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Creating the
Widescreen Weekend
Tony Cutts & Duncan McGregor, Heads of Projection: The
audiences clearly prefer the curve to the flat screen. Generally, we
have a difficult job explaining the difference between the formats and
what film goes on which screen. "Why don't you show this on the curve?" they often ask.
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Projecting the Widescreen Weekend
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Planning the Widescreen Weekend
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Audience feedback - Widescreen Weekend
2009
• Read full text: Widescreen
Weekend 2009, Bradford, England
• Gallery:
Bradford, Widescreeen Weekend 2009
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Program 2009
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 Thursday, 19. March
16:00 - 18:57 "A Star is Born"
20.00 – 22.30 "The King and I"
Friday, 20. March
10:00 – 11:55 “This is Cinerama”
12.30 – 14.30 "The Taming of the Shrew"
15.00 – 17.00 "Faubourg 36"
17.00 – 18.30 Delegates reception
18.45 – 19.45 Screen talk interview with cast & crew of "Where
Eagles Dare" etc
20.00 – 22.55 "Where Eagles Dare"
Saturday, 21 March
10.00 – 11.00 Cinerama Ventures
11.15 – 14.30 "How the West Was
15.00 – 18.15 "The Bible...in the beginning"
18.45 – 19.45 At the Cutting Edge of Digital
20.00 – 22.45 "West Side Story"
Sunday, 22 March
09:00 - 10:00 "This is New Zeeland"
10:00 – 12:30 Cineramacana
13.00 – 13.30 Richard Burton: Lion of the Welsh presented by Tony
Earnshaw
13.30 – 16.15 "Becket"
16.45 – 18.55 "Carousel"
19.30 – 22.00 "Khartoum"
Monday, 23 March
10.00 – 12.15 "Year of the Dragon"
12.45 – 14.45 "The Electric Horseman"
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Pictureville Cinema, Bradford
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 Thomas Hauerslev, Editor The 70mm Newsletter: The Pictureville cinema, the jewel of British cinema in Bradford, West
Yorkshire in the heart of Great Britain, is one of three cinemas
equipped to show
Cinerama in the original 3-strip format.
The huge screen is wide and deeply curved. It’s the perfect framework
to present 70mm with 6-track sound in
Super Technirama 70, Todd-AO and Ultra Panavision 70.
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Pictureville Cinema, Bradford, England
Why
is 70mm so special?
"in 70mm" is unlike anything you have ever seen - a High Definition movie experience with extremely sharp images and crystal clear 6 track stereo.
"in 70mm" is
very realistic, almost three dimensional and can make everything you
have ever seen pale into insignificance.
But don't take our word for it - come and see for your self.
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 Pictureville
Seating lay-out. Click to enlarge
Widescreen
Weekend Passes is now on sale. We cannot sell Widescreen Passes on the web
because we need to know which seats you require. If you want to book email
Jennifer Hall,
with the completed booking form and you will be contacted shortly. Seats are
given on a first come first served basis.
Download booking form
BIFF - Widescreen Weekend
Jennifer Hall is the bookings co-ordinator, so she can
be contacted for bookings and info.
 Full Ticket Price
List
Standard films
£6.00 (Full price adult); £4.50 (Concession); £5.00 (FOF);
£3.50 (FOF conc).
Premium films
£10.00 (Full price adult); £7.00 (Concession); £9.00 (FOF);
£6.00 (FOF conc).
Presentations/lectures
£3.50 (Full price adult); £2.50 (Concession); £2.50 (FOF);
£1.50 (FOF conc).
Passes
£85 (Full price adult) - works out at £101 for all tickets.
£65 (Concession) - works out at £73.50 for all tickets.
£75 (FOF) - works out at £86.00 for all tickets.
£55 (FOF conc) - works out at £58.50 for all tickets.
Film Festival Rates March 2009
The Midland Hotel
+44 1274 735735
Joanne Miller.
Film Festival Rates 2009
Bed & Breakfast for 2 nights @ £46.00 per person per night sharing a
Standard Double/Twin bedroom.
Bed & Breakfast for 3 nights @ £42.00 per person per night sharing a
Standard Double/Twin bedroom. 3 night reservation will be upgraded, subject
to availability, and will be given a complimentary bottle of wine in their
bedroom upon arrival.
Bed & Breakfast for 4 nights @ £38.00 per person per night sharing a
Standard Double/Twin bedroom. 4 night reservation will receive the above and
Dinner complimentary on one of the evenings.
*Premium bedroom supplement of £10.00 per person per night.
*A single supplement of £30.00 applies per room per night.
Dinner will be available from £16.95 per person, per night with a Special
Themed Menu running throughout the festival.
Bookings are to be made directly through the Midland Hotel and festival
guests will be advised to quote "Bradford International Film Festival" when
booking.
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 Other Bradford Hotels
Holiday
Inn Express
Prices from £__ per room per night
+44 0870 850 9083
Great Victoria Hotel Prices from £__ per room per night
+44 01274 728706
This is the Museum's corporate rate, so delegates must state
is on the National Media Museum rate.
Hilton
Hotel
Prices from £__ per room per night
+44 01274 734734
How
to travel to Bradford, by Paul Rayton
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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