Patton (1970) Reg B Version (1 Viewer)

[DP 70]

I have just had a look at this and it looks like the new
version.
This is the 4th version i have on Blu, sad aint it.

A Smilebox version in D-150 would be nice.

 

[TonyD]

why would they make a smilebox version?

 

[Doctorossi]

why would they make a smilebox version?

Dimension-150 was intended as a curved-screen presentation format, the 150 being the degrees of your field of vision intended to be enveloped.

 

[FoxyMulder]

Dimension-150 was intended as a curved-screen presentation format, the 150 being the degrees of your field of vision intended to be enveloped.

I was too late in replying to that, i wanted to say.....to make you smile.

 

[TonyD]

Ok but HTWWW and Brother Grimm was filmd in a way that smile box would work. Essentially filmed so it would play on a curved screen. Smilebox simulates the curve. There is no curve to simulate with Patton.

 

[Doctorossi]

There is no curve to simulate with Patton.

There is the curved look that would have been produced by playback onto a curved screen.

 

[Paul Rossen]

I saw PATTON in both 'regular' 70mm and D-150. D-150 was most spectacular and as originally filmed would be tremendous in the Smilebox configuration.

 

[DP 70]

Pictureville Cinema in Bradford use a original D-150 lens
when they show films shot in 65mm on the big curved
Cinerama screen.
This year we had The Sound of Music and Hello Dolly.

 

[DP 70]

Hi, Now i have checked the discs together i could not do this in the week, i think the REGION B disc is the
OLD Transfer.

 

[Alan Tully]

Thanks for that. You have to wonder just what Fox are playing at. I can only think it's a bit of infighting between Fox US & Fox Europe, maybe along the lines of - it's our budget that paid for the new transfer, so you can't have it, use the old one - so the customer (who in the end pay their wages) suffer. With the crazy stuff that's happening on the MOD program, it looks like Fox could do with a good management shake-up. I'll just pass, there are plenty of other movies for me to spend my money on.