Stealth3kpl Posted December 3, 2015 Share #1 Posted December 3, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) Quite interesting: Pete Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chris_livsey Posted December 3, 2015 Share #2 Posted December 3, 2015 Absolutely brilliant. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebarnman Posted December 4, 2015 Share #3 Posted December 4, 2015 I was at the drive-in when I originally saw The Hateful Eight trailer. I was blown away at the end when it said presented in glorious 70mm (Ultra Panavision 70.) I wondered for a quick moment if it was a joke or not (knowing all theatres had just switched from film to digital,) and theatres capable of showing 70mm prints before the switch to digital; were very few. About two months later, I called the home office of my favorite neighborhood indoor theatre (Harkins,) and asked if they were going to be showing The Hateful Eight in 70mm. The woman I talked to was very knowledgeable. Not yet having announced if they, (Harkins;) were going to exhibit Hateful Eight, went on to tell me they had been in touch with the studio about acquiring the equipment necessary to present Hateful Eight in 70mm. Of course, now I know exactly what I'm going to be doing on Christmas day! For me, the Ultra Panavision 70mm format was a question in my mind. I had known the Panavision format for 35mm film creates a 2.39:1 aspect ratio. And, I know the regular aspect ratio of a Super Panavision 70mm release print is 2.20:1. This is not as wide as the 35mm Panavision format, but being shot on a larger film format; it's capable of much higher image resolution (particularly important for high picture quality when working with film stock from the 50s, 60s and 70s,) and presented onto very large movie screens. Using a anamorphic camera lens to capture the Ultra Panavision image; results in a 1.25x squeeze factor recorded onto the film. Then, when that squished image is projected through a Ultra Panavision projection lens, it properly unsqueezes the image onto the screen resulting in a final projected aspect ratio of 2.76:1, the widest film format ever designed. In total, there were only about 10 movies ever shot (not including The Hateful Eight) in the Ultra Panavision format. Note; There are wider theatrical movie formats available, but those formats requires the use of more than one projector; and those projectors had to be intermittently locked together. What I've known for a long time is 70mm movies are shot with 65mm film cameras. The images are then transferred to 70mm so the extra 5mm of space could be used to hold the magnetic six channel audio track. Of course today, that extra space would be used for the digital audio track. Because film stock has improved over the years, (particularly since the 1950s,) the image quality once achievable only with 70mm movie presentations, can now be close in image quality using standard 35mm movie film. However, larger film formats will always means higher quality. So it will be very interesting to see what kind of quality today's most current film stock can bring to a large film format presentation, such as 70mm Ultra Panavision. Can't wait! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_livsey Posted December 4, 2015 Share #4 Posted December 4, 2015 Stock used was: 65mm: Kodak Vision3 200T 5213, Vision3 500T 5219 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sblitz Posted December 4, 2015 Share #5 Posted December 4, 2015 Can only hope the movie itself is worth seeing ..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sblitz Posted December 4, 2015 Share #6 Posted December 4, 2015 Stock used was: 65mm: Kodak Vision3 200T 5213, Vision3 500T 5219 is that cinestill 50 or 800? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Albertson Posted December 4, 2015 Share #7 Posted December 4, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) Tarantino & Co. spent months beating the bushes for 70mm projectors, getting them refurbished (getting parts was hell), and persuading theaters to use them for his movie. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Albertson Posted December 4, 2015 Share #8 Posted December 4, 2015 I was at the drive-in when I originally saw The Hateful Eight trailer. Are there still drive-ins around Phoenix? I think the last 70mm movie I saw was "It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World" at the Cinerama in Scottsdale (doubt if it's still there). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebarnman Posted December 5, 2015 Share #9 Posted December 5, 2015 Chuck Albertson, on 04 Dec 2015 - 14:56, said:Chuck Albertson, on 04 Dec 2015 - 14:56, said:Chuck Albertson, on 04 Dec 2015 - 14:56, said:Chuck Albertson, on 04 Dec 2015 - 14:56, said:Chuck Albertson, on 04 Dec 2015 - 14:56, said: Are there still drive-ins around Phoenix? I think the last 70mm movie I saw was "It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World" at the Cinerama in Scottsdale (doubt if it's still there). Currently there's one in the state of Arizona, and it's called the Glendale Nine Drive-in. http://www.westwinddi.com/ I used to go to the one in Scottsdale (Scottsdale Six Drive-in) till it closed a few years ago. I also did a photo shoot there with my Leica R9 and APO-Summicron-R 90mm f/2 ASPH (Fuji Provia 100F) a few years before that one closed. (The image below was one in a series that used to be in the display case in the concession area,) it was 115° that day. The Cinerama (actually called the Kachina,) http://incinerama.com/Kachina.htm did show 3 strip Cinerama movies at one time. Later, movies filmed in the Ultra Panavision were shown in a 70mm format at the Kachina, but were advertised as Cinerama movies...probably because of the sign outside that said "Cinerama." (It was probably Super Panavision shown on the curved screen.) I saw Batman (1989) on opening day there in June, six months before the theatre was torn down that December. The 70mm movies I remember seeing (not including any IMAX films) was Willow (1988) (a 35mm blow up to 70mm) in Super Panavision at the original Cine Capri Phoenix. A road show version of Apocalypse Now (with intermission) in 70mm also at the Cine Capri September 1987. It too was a blow up from a 35mm print. I just remembered, I also saw a restored version of Lawrence of Arabia, also at the Cine Capri in 1989 or 1990. That one was originally shot on 65mm film transferred to 70mm film for a Super Panavision presentation also with intermission. Odd thing, I remember not being impressed with the color because it did not seem saturated enough. Other than that, the print looked fine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_livsey Posted December 5, 2015 Share #10 Posted December 5, 2015 is that cinestill 50 or 800? 5219 stock is the Cine Still 800 Kodak Vision3 50D 7203 is the Cine Still 50 I suspect they used T (tungsten balance) on both stocks to make the colour grading match better, which I understand was an entirely chemical process and no digital intervention. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Henry Posted December 5, 2015 Share #11 Posted December 5, 2015 I like the Kodak cap of Samuel JacksonCongratulations Tarantino and his team What beautiful landscapes show in the film color Film is not dead ! ... and two with Twin Peaks by David Lynch also turned in film ! Thanks Pete for the post. Best Henry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkP Posted December 5, 2015 Share #12 Posted December 5, 2015 Quite interesting: VERY! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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