| FOREWORD TO THE "70MM BLOW UP LIST" |  As many of you know, the in70mm.com web site maintains many 70mm and other large-format film lists. The in70mm.com web site is now home to the most comprehensive list of 70mm blow-up movies ever compiled. The newly posted list was the culmination of many years of combined research. There is no other list of this magnitude available in print or on the internet. We believe this is the most detailed list of its kind.
|  Mike Coate, co-master of the blow-up lists
Our initial concentration and knowledge focused on U.S. releases. We have since begun to account for worldwide 70mm releases. There is still much work to be done in this area, however.
• Go to 35mm to 70mm Engagements by Year
Nearly all of the titles have been verified as having had 70mm release prints. Any titles that were questionable (i.e. "Flash Gordon") have notes citing the source of information.
• Go to The Alleged 70mm Releases
• Go to 70mm Blow Ups Which Never Were
Over the course of our research, we've found some helpful (and some not so helpful) leads as to whether certain movies played in 70mm somewhere in the world.
|  Bill Kallay, co-master of the blow-up lists
The list includes an alphabetical listing of titles within a given year, along with notations for the original photography process, the soundtrack format, the distributor, the earliest known release date and our favorite feature, a column for "special notes," where any specific or noteworthy information can be listed.
The list is considered a work-in-progress, so any information readers and 70mm fans may have is helpful. Check the In 70mm web site for updates as new information is added on a regular basis.
Compiled by William Kallay and Michael Coate - ©1999-2002. |
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| | PERIPHERAL VISION, SCOPES, DIMENSIONS AND PANORAMAS | 
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| | | |  Grant's Blow-Up Blog
By Grant Lobban
Just in case there are any of you unfamiliar with the wonderful world of 70mm, a blow-up isn’t a print which ends its useful life by exploding in the projector. Sadly, most old 70mm copies, at least those printed before the early 1980s when more stable colour stocks were introduced, have a far less dramatic demise, they just fade away with everyone appearing in them ending up with a pink complexion.
A blow-up is the term used to describe a print made by enlarging, or “blowing-up”, smaller formats, usually those on 35mm film, but 70mm prints have also been derived from 16mm and even 8mm originals. When they first appeared, I was rather sniffy about them and didn’t consider them to be “proper” 70mm, which like to original Todd-AO process, has to be photographed on 65mm negative with the same large image area. I must say now, before we start, that although it wasn’t love at first sight, I did come to appreciate blow-ups later.
Grant's Blow-Up-Tagebuch
Von Grant Lobban
 Mit "Blow-up" bezeichnet man eine 70mm Kopie, die durch optische Vergrößerung eines kleineren Formates, meistens 35mm, hergestellt wurde.
70mm in London 1958-2023
By John Sharp
Between the years 1994 and some years ahead, John systematically researched all 70mm releases in London.
70mm Premieres in Los Angeles
By Coate & Kallay
Ever wondered which films premiere in 70mm in the home of the movie industry?
Chronological Premiere List of Major 70mm Films
By Thomas Hauerslev
If you ever wondered when a particular 70mm film premiered, then here is the list to read, organized year by year. |
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• Go to 70mm Blow Ups Which Never Were |
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7OMM Trivia "Top 10 Number of 70mm release prints" by Mike Coate, 7OMM Data Wizard:
