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Cinerama Goes to Venice
Sensational Festival Screening | Read more at in70mm.com The 70mm Newsletter
| Written by: Randy Gitsch,
The Cinerama Restoration Crew | Date:
15.08.2012 |
From
lost and faded, to curved with color: CINERAMA is BACK!
Friends,
The Venice International Film Festival has now finalized the schedule for
its 69th edition, and we wanted you to be the first to know when and where
you'll get to see digital Cinerama within it.
Our latest digitally restored, remastered, recombined, and Smileboxed®
feature, "CINERAMA SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE" (1958) will screen three (3) times
during the tail end of the festival.
Our Master Class presentation, "CINERAMA RESTORATION...IN THE DIGITAL AGE"
will kick things off, starting at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, Sept. 5, in the Sala
Pasinetti, located in the Palazzo del Cinema. I will moderate a 60 minute
discussion with Michael Wilder, of Image Trends, Austin, TX, who was
responsible for the team who scanned and reassembled the three Cinerama film
panels, and David Strohmaier, of Van Nuys, CA, my production partner and the
man who's supervised this restoration and that of the whole Cinerama
library.
Thereafter, armed as you'll be with an understanding of just how unique and
difficult this restoration was, you'll be able to see the last of the
original, three-panel Cinerama travelogues, "CINERAMA SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE",
at;
| More in 70mm reading:
Dave
Strohmaier and Randy Gitsch - in conversation with Mark Lyndon
Historic
Big Screen Films Get Major Digital Makeover
in70mm.com's Cinerama page
Internet link:
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Thursday, Sept. 6
-Sala Perla, in the Palazzo del Cinema
-4:30 P.M.
Friday, Sept. 7
-Sala Volpi, in the Palazzo del Cinema
-9:00 P.M.
Saturday, Sept. 8
-Sala Perla, in the Palazzo del Cinema
-9:00 A.M.
We'll all be in Venice only through the morning of the 7th, so we'll hope
you get to see some digital Cinerama, with or without us. Enjoy!
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