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The Importance of
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The
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ULTRA PANAVISION
70 |
 The MGM PANAVISION Enlarged-film System
By Douglas Shearer
To make our system universally adaptable a 65mm negative has been chosen having standard perforations with the incorporation of a mild anamorphic squeeze in the taking lens system. |
 Ultra
Panavision 70 - almost like a real story
By Rick Mitchell
Due to a financial investment from MGM, the new format was initially known as "MGM Camera 65".
Because, one of its design considerations was to yield higher quality
35mm anamorphic prints, directors, cinematographers, and camera
operators were instructed to keep important action within the safe
action area of 2.35:1 anamorphic 35mm prints with an optical track. |
 65/70mm Rules
By Rick Mitchell
Last night at a special program at UCLA's Bridges Theater devoted to unusual film picture and sound formats, two examples of 65mm origination and 70mm presentation were shown. |
 Ultra Panavision 70, Early lenses
By Tak Miyagishima
These earlier lenses were all engraved as having a power of 1.33X but were never used having that power. We started designing these lenses with the power of 1.33X and had to alter the power but didn’t change the engraving.
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Ultra Panavision 70 - Adjustment and modifications |
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VINTAGE 65MM
PANAVISION
Prepared for in70mm.com by Brian Guckian, Dublin, Ireland |
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“PANAVISION”...new wide screen system
Enry Provisor, Professional Cine
Photographer December 1953
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The Super
Panatar Variable Type Anamorphic Lens
Robert Gottschalk, President,
Panavision, Inc., Hollywood. Calif. Motion Picture Herald 3 July 1954
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The New
Ultra Panatar Lens
Film Daily 18 March 1955.
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MGM Adopting
Panavision's 65mm Process on Big Films
Daily Variety 27 April 55
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METRO TO FILM TOP PIX IN 65M
Hollywood
Reporter 27 April 1955
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New Process to Be Used For Top Pix, With
Prints Also in Standard, C-Scope
Film Daily 27 April 55. West coast
bureau of the Film Daily
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Panavision 65 Projection: What It Can Accomplish
Film Daily 1 November 1957.
Panavision section Friday, November 1, 1957
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Panavision Enters Independent Production
International Projectionist, November 1957
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Up, Down, Up, Down
Bob Whearley, Long Beach
Press Telegraph 16 Feb 1958
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Wide Screen – shoots in the dark!
By
Henry Provisor, Home Movies, September 1958 |
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 "Tak"
Miyagishima, Panavision Passed Away
By Bill Hogan
For more than half a century starting in 1954 Tak was one of the
most esteemed design engineers in the motion picture industry. |
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The Widest Story Ever Told |
 Panavision
and the Resurrecting
of Dinosaur
Technology
By Tyler Purcell
After seeing the
70mm test footage,
there was a rousing
applause. The next
thing we saw was a
DCP version of the
material and it
really shows how
proper film
projection truly
trumps digital. The
blacks were mushy
and undefined, the
highlights were
clearly peaking and
the whole image
looked flat. All of
that beautiful depth
seen in the film
projection was lost.
We sadly realized
this format,
developed in the
50's, is still
better then all the
money we've thrown
at conventional
digital projection. |
 Camera 65 and the Metro Bourke Street Bigger than…
By Eric White
The Bourke Street Metro was
a two-gallery theatre, like the Collins Street Athenaeum, and as was the
case there, the projection rake was quite steep. |
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To Split or not to Split ...
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