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  1. plinfesty

    UNIVERSAL-please release AIRPORT in bluray!

    While my memory of the two versions is the same, AFAIK, there were NO roadshow engagements of AIRPORT. There may have well been advanced prices charged, or "Popular Prices" which meant higher than regular, but below Roadshow scale (as was the habit for certain films), but the big-city...
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Deliverance (40th Anniversary) -- in Blu-ray

    The film played originally in 70mm 6-track stereo in at least 2 theatres, he Cinerama Dome in Hollywood and the Cinerama Theatre in San Diego (although this could have been from 1 print - the SD run didn't begin until the day after the Dome's long engagement closed).
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    LOST HORIZON 1973 - The Complete Version

    Not to digress again to THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, but according to Boxoffice Magazine (December 11, 1972, page 16), "The Gateway's (Pittsburgh) XMAS offering, "The Poseidon Adventure," will be presented in four-track stereophonic sound, the first in too long a time..." And here's a sub-run of the...
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    LOST HORIZON 1973 - The Complete Version

    As I mentioned in my earlier post, the Hollywood run started the day after the National Westwood hosted the World Premiere (and would continue to show the film), at the Hollywood Cinema (a General Cinema theatre) that had previously been known as Loew's Hollywood (1967-1972) , the Paramount...
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    LOST HORIZON 1973 - The Complete Version

    OOPS! Another POSEIDON ADVENTURE ad in the Lost Horizon column, this time from Chicago (scroll half-way down): http://www.film-tech.com/cgi-bin/ubb/f8/t006347/p4.html
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    LOST HORIZON 1973 - The Complete Version

    I still remember the MAD Magazine spoof of this movie and specifically theb lyrics... "The world is a circle without a circumference, and nobody knows what these lyrics mean, but Bacharach and David are making a fortune..."
  7. plinfesty

    LOST HORIZON 1973 - The Complete Version

    The State most likely was one of a handful of theatres that were showing wetgate (or, "show" prints) off the OCN. These prints usually went only to the so-called "key deluxers" in New York and Los Angeles. Having seen a number of these 35mm prints in Los Angeles, they could look extroadinary...
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    LOST HORIZON 1973 - The Complete Version

    Here's the opening ad for the National in Manhattan and THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE: http://www.cinematour.com/picview.php?db=us&id=31514 The National Theatre in Westwood also had Bose 901 surrounds for several years before switching to JBL's (before that, they featured Altecs of several different...
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    LOST HORIZON 1973 - The Complete Version

    One memory I have of LOST HORIZON was the TV coverage of the premiere in L.A. M.C. Merv Griffin asked Liv Ullman if this was just the biggest and best movie she had ever made. She kind of stumbled through an answer that said something like, "well, it was certainly the most expensive." As for...
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    LOST HORIZON 1973 - The Complete Version

    Where was the film roadshowed? The day after the World Premier, the film ran regular continous performances in two L.A. theatres (National, Hollywood Cinema) and a week later opened in NYC at the State and Tower East theatres, also on continous performances. With the showtimes listed, I doubt...
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    LOST HORIZON 1973 - The Complete Version

    THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE was advertised as being "presented in the grandeur, scope and excitement of 70mm projection and 6 track stereophonic sound" at bothe the National in NYC and the State-Lake in Chicago. Also, the Egyptian in Hollywood and Alexandria in San Francisco also advertised it in...
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    SCROOGE (Albert Finney) is coming this October to Blu-ray!

    No, the overture for SCROOGE is NOT the underscore to the opening credits. And the DVD's PLAY WITH OVERTURE selection takes you to the OVERTURE (a 4 minute overture that precedes the opening credits) on the DVD. Choosing the non-overture selection takes you to the opening credits. In the...
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World -- in Blu-ray

    I believe each 35mm frame was twice the size as a standard 35mm frame (6 perfs plus elimation of soundtrack area plus little gap between frames). I think the 3 35mm images equalled about 6 times the image size of 35mm vs. 3 and a half times for 70mm (65mm).
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    It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - 7/5 (Another Wal-Mart Exclusive)

    Sorry, I was getting my MGM roadshows mixed up. It was SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN that replaced 2001 in the Golden Gate auditorium downstairs. When 2001 moved upstairs, it continued to run for a number of months into 1969 (70mm roadshow conventional screen).
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World -- in Blu-ray

    Well, Buster Keaton was quite physically active in several AIP beach party movies made after this (Pajama Party, Beach Blanket Bingo, How To Stuff a Wild Bikini). Just watched all three this weekend.
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    It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - 7/5 (Another Wal-Mart Exclusive)

    Well 10 of those films were run as Reserved Seat Engagements/Roadshows, at least in Los Angeles. Funny Girl (Egyptian), The Charge of the Light Brigade (Fine Arts), Finian's Rainbow (Pantages), Ice Station Zebra (Cinerama Dome), Star! (Fox Wilshire), The Lion in Winter (4-Star), The Shoes of the...
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    It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - 7/5 (Another Wal-Mart Exclusive)

    Oh, they most certainly did not. They either closed the curtains on the Intermission screen, or if a cheap multiplex showed a blank screen. Their was an Entracte leading back into part 2 of Ghandi (at least in the 70mm presentation I saw at the plitt Century Plaza in Los Angeles), but the...
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    Lost footage of 2001: A Space Odyssey found

    According to the 1970 book "The Making of 2001" edited by Jerome Agel, Nineteen minutes were trimmed from the original print. Sequences trimmed were Dawn of Man, Orion, Poole exercising in the centrifuge, and Poole's pod exiting from Discovery. Trimming commenced at four P.M. on April 5...
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    It's a mad mad mad mad world

      Maybe to you, but I DID see it, as have others here, and the MGMHD print showed far more info on the sides and a little bit more on the top and bottom than the 35mm release prints. Apparently, its something you'll have to see and experience for yourself.
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    It's a mad mad mad mad world

      AFAIK, only THE KING AND I was released in what was called Grandeur 70, not CAROUSEL, and it wasn't the original release that this was performed for, but for one in 1960-61.   But of course this has nothing to do with IAMMMMW and the print that many people saw at both the Dome, in 2003...
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    The Robe Blu-Ray Special Edition

    So how does one access the SOUND of the Bonus View? All I get is the sound of the HD Master audio (or any of the other 5 tracks I happen to choose. There's cleaqrly people talking about the history in the PIP, but its silent.
  22. plinfesty

    It's a mad mad mad mad world

      Why do you find this print such a mystery? It was a newly struck 70mm print. It was a UP70 (not rectified, but anamorphic 1.25 squeeze) print. There is NO mystery as to why the negative splices were showing. As I stated earlier, the Dome was NOT using their normal butterfly plates to...
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    It's a mad mad mad mad world

    No, i'm assuming it, I was told it. John Sittig said during the booth tour of How the West Was Won that the print they would be showing in a few weeks of IAMMMMW was a new 70mm print struck off the ON. It was an outstanding picture, exept for the titles, which were in bad shape (just like what...
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    It's a mad mad mad mad world

    No, that would be referred to as a rectified print. The print the Dome showed was unrectified and was a brand new 70mm print struck off of the cut UP70 (65mm) negative (allegedly, claimed, etc). It was projected with a UP70 lens on loan from Panavision. Several other 70mm equipped theatres...
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    It's a mad mad mad mad world

    Because I saw the lens refractions and negative splices projected on the screen from a new UP70 print (well, new in 2003). The Cinerama Dome had some VERY weird masking with an ujpwatd curve at the bolttom, but this allowed the entire image to be projected, instead of being cropped. Besides, a...
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    It's a mad mad mad mad world

    Oddly, the examples (screen grabs) shown in Roland's example showed both MORE height and width from the MGM cast then from what has been seen in other transfers. So if this wasn't a transfer from the 65/70mm UP elements, where did all this extra image come from? As someone who has seen this...
  27. plinfesty

    It's a mad mad mad mad world

    And on what basis are you making this claim? The width is coming from UP70. The standard 35mm version was coming from a cropped 35mm Panavision source. It was cropped from making the 35mm reduction prints, not from cropping the DVD from the original source. By your own admission, the film...
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    It's a mad mad mad mad world

    The MGMHD transfer was obviously taken from the same sourse as the 70mm print I saw at the Cinerama Dome (Arclight) presentation I saw back in 1963...from the Ultra-Panavision 70 cut print (remember, the film was shown in this cut form for MOST of its roadshow run, as it was cut a couple of...
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