Todd-AO Premiere List

June 1953 Tests	23.06.1953	Photographed in New York, USA, USA	Todd-AO concepts filmed at 20-30 fps. directed by Mike Todd. Cameraman: Schyler Sandford. Photographic equipment was Thomascolor 65mm cameras rebuilt by American Optical Corporation and Mitchell Camera Corporation. Rollercoaster scene photographed at the Far Rockaway Playland’s “Atom Smasher” coaster (also seen in "This is Cinerama"). The camera faced the people in the rollercoaster, one of which were actress Evelyn Keyes, then-girlfriend of Mike Todd.
More Tests	23.07.1953 14.08.1953	Photographed in Elicott Creek Park, Buffalo, New York, June 1953 Shown at Regent Theatre, Buffalo, USA	Fred Zinnemann and Harry Stradling 30 frames per second
More Tests	03.08.1953 08.08.1953	Photographed in MGM Studios, Culver City	Fred Zinnemann and Harry Stradling 30 frames per second
More Tests	06.09.1953	Photographed in Venice, Italy	European tour Todd-AO Concepts directed by Signor Michael Todd. Cameramen: Harry Stradling & Schyler Sandford Venice's La Fenice opera house. Basillica di San Marcos Canals of Venice.
More Tests	23.06.1954	Photographed in MGM Stage 2, LA, USA	30 frames per second
The Miracle of Todd-AO	25.05.1956	Rivoli, NYC, USA	30 frames per second. New DTS 70mm print struck in 2005
The March of Todd-AO	24.12.1958	Rivoli, NYC, USA	New DTS 70mm print struck in 2006
"Man in the 5th Dimension"	22.04.1964	World Fair, NYC, USA	"Serving as the centerpiece of the Billy Graham Pavilion, a 70-mm wide-screen film called Man in the Fifth Dimension was shown hourly from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. in a special 400-seat theater that offered viewers earphones in a choice of six languages. Each inquirer was counseled afterward in his or her own language." "So we went ahead, developing a seventy-millimeter wide-screen Todd-AO film entitled Man in the Fifth Dimension. Using spectacular photography to tell the story of God’s creation and His love in Christ, scriptwriter Jim Collier and director Dick Ross put together a presentation of the Gospel that touched thousands of lives." From billygraham.org
The Artist Who Did Not Want To Paint	07.10.1965	State, NYC, USA	Prologue to "The Agony and the Ecstasy". 13 minutes narrated by Marvin Miller, and directed by Vincenzo Labella. Photographed by Piero Portalupi. Music by Jerry Goldsmith
"Circus"	1973	Chicago	Steve Kraus [11.12.2018] on Facebook: "Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry had a theatre as part of their circus exhibit sponsored by Sears [1973]. It was shot in 5/65 turned on its side to showcase aerial wire acts. But projection was not 70; they used 16mm triple frame on a specially adapted Century projector. Film handling was with an endless loop device atop the projector. Sound was 35mm full coat on a dubber in the next room with the film running up and down over many rollers. I don’t recall the track arrangement but there were some holes punched to trigger effects like a strobe in the theatre."
CineSpace 70	10.08.1987	Glen Glenn Sound, Todd-AO, Hollywood, USA	CineSpace 70 demonstration. Filmed at 30 frames per second. Launch of new 65mm cameras by Todd-AO. Camera designed by Doug Fries (Fries Engineering, Inc). • Go to CINESPACE 70 by Todd-AO Todd-AO introduced its new CineSpace 70 series of cameras at a special meeting of the American Society of Cinematographers on August 10, 1987.
Apollo 11	24.01.2019	Sundance Film Festival, USA	"65mm Panavision collection" consist of 61 65mm reels of Apollo 11 footage, out of a collection of 165 reels of 65mm film about the Apollo missions (Apollo 8 - 13) made by NASA for public relations and MGM Studios for the project: "Moon Walk One", MGM Studios and the story of the NASA Apollo Program. • Go to Stephen Slater in Conversation • Go to Apollo program photographed in Todd-AO by NASA
“Apollo 11: Quarantine”	29.01.2021	-	Apollo 11: Quarantine will feature never-before-seen 70mm footage (Todd-AO) sourced from the National Archives and NASA.

Todd-AO Feature Films, Shorts and Tests

Todd-AO Short films, Documentary footage and Concept Tests