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If Paramount had been smart and offered some kind of conversion kit (not easy but possible) they might have put those VistaVision projectors in theaters before Todd-AO had shown their projectors to be multi format capable. They still would have had to solve the issue of the missing multichannel...

Sounds like the projector was bigger than the screen.

Definitely worth asking Michael about those other horizontal presentations, there weren't that many after all. It is also quite interesting that with projectors already installed not more prints were struck of later VistaVsion movies. I thought it would have been because the installations were...

I was quite sure it was you, thanks for bringing it up. Forgot about that article by Michael Coate, it is here: https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/history-legacy--showmanship/to-catch-a-thief-60th It includes the faded frame and some screening dates and durations.

Always hard to verify all of this but I can confirm that there was a horizontal print of Battle of the River Plate as I saw a frame of it a few years ago. I noticed that he mentions The Ten Commandments as if it had been brought to 70mm in a way that is comparable to Vertigo when in fact the...

According to Alain Dorange there were some more movies projected in VistaVision: To Catch a Thief The Seven Little Foys The Far Horizons Battle of the River Plate Oeil pour Oeil The first three each ran in more than one cinema, while the other two only ran in one theater in the UK and France...

While I'd like a new documentary they can add it to a later single movie release. Just let me have Vertigo (and hopefully in due time the other VistaVision Hitchcock movies) in 4k.