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First 70mm Seminar in the Czech Republic
17. - 19. March 2006
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Written
by Jakub Klíma and
photographed by Jan Piska |
Date:
28 April 2006 |
The
Kino Mir 70 cinema. Picture: Thomas Hauerslev
We
have started on project mapping a history of 70mm format in the Czech
Republic. There will be a lot of interesting information, I guess, for
your website. We will be happy to share this with another 70mm fans.
I have got for you a piece of information you could appreciate: Last
month, from 17. - 19. March took place a small meeting of 70mm fans in
CZ. It took place in Krnov, in my hometown.
It was very small seminar,
where students and professional (projectionists, lectors,..) got together
to enjoy a large format. We had only a small number of films, which were
borrowed from Slowak Film Institute.
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More
in 70mm reading:
• Home of "7OMM Seminar" at Kino Mir 70, Krnov, Czech
Republic
7OMM Seminar Through the Years:
• Film Program
• Text and Image
About Todd-AO
• Počátky
Todd-AO
Internet
Kino Mir 70 Namesti Miru 14 794 01 Krnov The Czech
Republic
Telephone: +420 554 615 050
• Festival Page
•
KRRR! Facebook
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Meopta
Universal projector for both 35 and 70mm films. Picture: Thomas
Hauerslev
Just for your idea: We were enjoying "Soldaty Svobody" by Jurij
Ozerov - epic communist propagand film - 6 hours!
"Tabor Ukhodit v Nebo" ("Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven")
by Emil Loteanu - you must know this
"Vzlyot" by Savva Kulish with Jevgenij Jevtusenko about
Ciolkovskij...
And finally we have a mosaic of fragments of 70mm films which were found
all around the Czech Rep. They were mostly in bad condition (red color
were dominant on most of US production films but on ORWO material, which
were Soviet prints made from are the colours still the same, which is
interesting:)).
This section of our seminar was very funny and we had a great fun with
the fragments of "Cleopatra", "Alien", "West Side
Story" among others.
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Ladislav
Sekanina and
Pavel Tomesek (head of the Mir 70 cinema). Picture: Jan Piska
And because we do not know now if there is going to be next seminar I
would like to ask you if you could help me? I mean, we would be happy to
show people this format again in my country but as I said before we do
not have any prints in our country at all and, of course, we cannot show
the same prints over and over...
We would clear the rights for our area. There is no problem with this.
Bonton Film holds the rights for almost all of the US, UK production but
we still do not know how and from where we could bring prints to CZ? We
can see all the festivals, meetings all around the Europe and even in
the World but we do not know how to contact the right person or persons
to give us more details.
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Jaromir
Blazejovsky (film department of Masaryk University in Brno), Jakub Klíma and Pavel Tomesek (head of the Mir 70 cinema).
Picture: Jan Piska
I, therefore, ask about some help you as the most informed person in the
field of 70mm film! Could You give me some hints? I would very glad if
you could. We are little bit desperate since we have not made any step
forward for a long time...
This is the
website
of our seminar, unfortunately, it is only in Czech
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Kino Mir 70
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Picture:
Thomas Hauerslev
Kino Mír 70, Krnov (26 000 inhabitans). The cinema worked from 1948 until 1959, re-built for widescreen projection (1:2,35 a 1:2,55 4 track MG record; projection machines FTP 1 (Jihostroj ČR)
Re-opened in 10.2.1961.
Another reconstruction from 29.12.1968 - 23.5.1969; re-opened with 70mm
film "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines".
In 1993 from 19.7. to 1.8.93 Meo5XB projectors were installed.
Another huge reconstruction took part from 1.10.1995 - 8.12.1995, was
lowered capacity from 545 to 349 seats, DOLBY STEREO SR was installed.
By nation-wide film premiere of "Joan of Arc" - 19.2.2000 - initiated of
functioning of Dolby digital
14.8. Dolby stereo EX by movie Terminator 3: Rise of the machines.
Capacity of cinema: 349 seats
Projectors: 2x UM 70/35XB ,2x Meo5XB, Meo II. X
(16 mm )
optical analog sound record, 6 channel mag. record, 4 channel mag.
record, Dolby digitál EX,
Size of the screen:
70mm film:
1:2,2 14,15 x 6,21m
35mm film:
1:2,35 - 11,56 x 4,90 m
1:1,85 - 9,10 x 4,90 m
1:1,66 - 8 x 4,90 m
1:1,37 - 6,72 x 4,90 m
16 mm film:
1:1,34 - 6,72 x 4,90 m
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