Just a an added point on change-over marks. They were all circles and only became ovals when the print was projected through an anamorphic projection lens.
Another happy memory about change-overs: as the projection reel (2000 ft - 22 minutes), (AKA big reels or A/B reels) were coming to end...
It is worth noting that after the development of Cinemascope Darryl Zanuck dictated that all of Fox's "A" features would be filmed in scope. If you watch Ottos Preminger's 1954 films "River of No Return" and "Carmen Jones" while both were required to be photographed in Cinemascope, in "River of...
Last night The Last Remaining Seats ran the 1994 restoration version of "My Fair Lady" in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (screen must have been near 80ft wide) . My guess is that the source was a commerical BluRay (an entr'acte card appeared before act 2); most likely because there is probably...
Greeting Mr. Harris,
Thank you for the wonderful work you do and inspire in others. It is a great service to a business that can, at times, be rather short sighted.
I have two questions regarding screenings I saw a couple of years ago at the AMPAS Goldwyn Theater.
"Giant" was supposedly a...