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Oslo's Red Carpet Widescreen Event
"Windjammer" Reunion, Oslo |
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Written by: Randy Gitsch |
Date:
13.05.2010
Updated: 15.10.2023 |
Harald
Tusberg and Kaare Terland, friends and "Windjammer" co-stars. Image by
Fredrik Mortensen
"Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich" returned to Oslo by
storm last week, resulting in capacity audiences and many pleased patrons.
The digital preservation played three shows, two of which "sold out", in the
Norwegian Film Institutes Cinemateket Kino. Booked into the NFI's 70mm Film
Festival, the roadshow version newly remastered for DVD, marked the
picture's triumphant return to the city that launched its very production,
in 1956.
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Red Carpet event
"Windjammer" Reunion, Oslo, Norway
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On the Trail of
"Windjammer" - A Visit to Oslo
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"Windjammer"
Cast & Crew Interviews in Oslo
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"Windjammer" produced in Cinemiracle
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Gallery:
Red Carpet event
"Windjammer" Reunion, Oslo, Norway
On the Trail of
"Windjammer" - A Visit to Oslo
"Windjammer" Press Release
The 9th Oslo 70mm festival
Movie Star Visits Copenhagen
Louis de Rochemont's
"Windjammer" produced in Cinemiracle
"Windjammer" Cast & Crew Interviews
in Oslo
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Meeting
Lasse Kolstad for the first time, he's got our attention. His wife Bab
(concealed), Meta Terland, co-star Kaare Terland, myself, Dave and Carin-Anne
Strohmaier get acquainted. Image by Fredrik Mortensen
Special guests during the Sunday, May 2, Red Carpet event included
stars, Lasse Kolstad and his wife, Bab Christensen, Kaare Terland and
wife, Meta, and Harald Tusberg, who was caught singing along to his
on-screen harmonizing. In attendence as well were many other cast and
crew members, the vast majority of whom had not seen the picture since
it's April 25, 1958, Oslo premiere at the city's largest screen, the
still venerated Collosseum Kino.
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Dave
and myself presenting our extra "Facelift" show. We're fortunate to be able
to share many on location production stills from the personal collection of
the late Richard Pietschmann, the sound recordist on the picture. Image by
Fredrik Mortensen
Original cadets making appearance at the screenings included, Jon Reistad,
Jan Halvorsen, Kjell Christensen, Tore Bilet and Ivar Hovden. Additionally,
one of the picture's technical advisors,
Alf R. Bjercke, caught the show. Turi
de Rochemont, widow of the picture's primary director, Louis de Rochemont
III, along with their son, Marius, joined the festivites, as did the grandson
of the ship's captain, Hans-Christian Kjelstrup, and several other proud
members of the Kjelstrup family.
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An
added bonus. Turi deRochemont saved all these years, and brought with
her to the show, some 1958 premiere napkins. Image by Fredrik Mortensen
David Strohmaier and
myself presented in advance of two of the features
screenings, our behind-the-scenes/behind-the-story show, "Remastering a
Widescreen Classic: Windjammer Gets a Major Facelift", which primed our
audiences nicely, to stick around for the feature. Similarly to the show
we've presented for several years to accompany our
"Cinerama Adventure"
feature documentary, our "Facelift" event walks viewers through a
historical perspective on the picture, its Cinemiracle widescreen
process, and the celebrated tall ships starring in it, as well as the
arduous preservation process, digital tools used and troubles
encountered in remastering a three-panel picture such as this one. In
essence, Dave and I have designed this show to rise to those
expectations of what you might want a great DVD "extra" to include, and
were fortunate to have several audience members tell us they enjoyed it.
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The
audience gets it! How do you recreate a curved screen experience on the
flat screen at the Cinemateket Kino? Our Smilebox® three-dimensional
graphic does the trick. Image by Fredrik Mortensen
Einar Corwin, Managing Director the the
Christian Radich Sail Training Foundation, spoke at each screening to
introduce the star of the film, the three-masted, square-rigger,
Christian Radich, which still sails
and trains throughout the year from berths in Oslo and Bergen.
With the 70mm Film Festival held early
this year to coincide with Oslo's hosting the Federation Internationale
des Archives du Film ("FIAF") Congress, film archivists from around the
world were able to catch the show as well as widescreen film fans. A
memorable week for all concerned. Even the Icelandic volcano quieted
down in cooperation.
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