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Dimension 150, About, Films and People • Provision should be made for a screen of at least 120' of arc. A floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall illusion is highly desirable.
Richard Vetter Passed Away By Robert Weisgerber With all the trials and tribulations that Dick went through over the years in Hollywood he always believed firmly in the 70mm format and the value it brought to feature films, yesterday, today and tomorrow. He was extremely knowledgeable and was willing to share it all, but most importantly a true gentleman. We will all miss him!
Carl Williams Passed Away The Williams Family It was at UCLA that he and fellow faculty member, Dr. Richard Vetter, invented a wide-screen photographic and presentation system called Dimension-150. Introduced in 1966, the system was soon being installed in movie theaters around the world and for a time, the D-150 process was one of Cinerama's chief rivals
Who is Who of Dimension 150 • Carl Williams born in Decatur, Illinois, USA March 9, 1927. Co-developed the Dimension-150 widescreen process 1957 - 1963 and formed D-150, Inc. 1963. • Richard Vetter born in San Diego, California, USA February 28, 1928. Inventor and co-developed the Dimension-150 widescreen process 1957 - 1963 and formed D-150, Inc. 1963.
The Passing of Joe Kelly By Leimeter, Vetter, Weisgerber & Williams Joe Kelly was one of the truly good guys in the world. He was my unofficial technical guru during the time when Todd-AO was still affiliated with the United Artists Theatre Corporation.
CINEMA
Cinerama and Todd-AO at the Syossett by Joe Kelley The screen frame had an adjustable curvature to accommodate the Todd AO specified deep chord depth while permitting 35mm Flat and Scope wide screen formats to form lesser chord depths.
D-150, Coliseum, London By Harry Rigby I have just come across these two photos I took at the Coliseum in London in the 1960s when they were playing "The Bible – In The Beginning". It shows the D150 lens nicely.
"Star Wars" Presented in Dimension 150 By Derek Young When "Star Wars" premiered in London in 1977, it was the last film to be presented in Dimension 150 at the Odeon Marble Arch
THE BIBLE
"The Bible...in the beginning" By Wolfram Hannemann The movie "The Bible" was achieved over a period of five years, three of which were needed for pre-production. It was the brainchild of Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis. He had the idea of making a movie covering the first 22 chapters of the book of books when doing some research while working on "Barabbas"
PATTON
The Photography of "Patton" By George J. Mitchel The sharpness and resolution of the D-150 lenses is amply demonstrated in the prologue. There are screen-filling close-ups of Patton's pistols, his decorations, his West Point ring. The clarity of detail, despite the magnification, is amazing.
"Harmony: Nature and Man" Washington State Film for EXPO 70 in Dimension 150 "Harmony: Nature and Man" is one of the most comprehensive documentaries on a U.S. state ever produced, to be the major attraction of the Washington State Pavilion at the 1970 Osaka Worlds Fair in Japan. The film will be photographed and exhibited in the 70mm Dimension 150 process, the only current motion picture process of both a photographic and an exhibition system
Come Back D-150 ....All Is Forgiven By Grant Lobban Known simply as D-150, it was the invention of two members of the University of California, Dr Richard Vetter, and Carl W. Williams. The system was a scaled-up version of an earlier development of theirs for a driving simulator.
The D-150 Curvulon Lens By Richard Vetter The D-150 Super Curvulon lens attachment was a basic design that I conceived and submitted to Kollmorgen Corp. in 1964 and that company was commissioned by D-150 to perform the final design and fabricate prototypes.
General Building Specifications for the Dimension-150 All-Purpose Theatre The concept of the "all-purpose-theatre" for Dimension 150 exhibition, and the exhibition of all other existing screen processes has been studied by D-150, Inc for several years. The "all- purpose-theatre" should be unique in appearance, functional in design, and economical in construction, operation and maintenance.
Dimension 150 Visual Display for U.C.L.A. Driving Simulator By S. F. Hulbert and C. K. Wojcik The U.C.L.A. Driving Simulator has been developed as a research tool in the field of highway safety. This simulator is a projection room in which an automobile is driven on steel rollers of a standard chassis dynamometer while the driver views the road scene that is projected onto a curved screen 8.5 ft in radius. The driver also views the road scene behind him by looking through the rear-view mirror at a motion picture projected on a screen placed beyond the rear window of the vehicle. The field of vision of the front view is 150 deg. The projection technique used is a special type of motion picture presentation called Dimension 150
