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There never was a 260-minute version. The catalog card at The Library of Congress lists the footage as 20,000 feet for their 35mm print, which would match the duration given in the Catalog of Copyright Entries of 221 minutes. World premiere at the Warner Cinerama Theatre on 2/15/65 Below is...

Watching Atlas that was just on TCM. Opening titles are letterboxed within 1.33. Then cropped to 1.33 full screen. Must have come from an old DVD.

It's on TCM On Demand.

The image from HBOMAX is definitely better.

Picture from my iPhone 6 taken of the TCMHD broadcast on the TV. Looks a lot better on the TV than the iPhone picture. iPhone increases the contrast. HBOMAX - I have HBOMAX and it's strange that the colors are different and the image is cropped on both sides. TCMHD HBOMAX from David_B_K...

Maybe that's why your not happy with the PQ. I have DirecTV and it looks fine and is marked as HD.

Yes. I'm sure the Blu-ray with be 4.0 or 5.1.

youtube TCM broadcast - taken with my old iPhone of the TV screen. Looks better than the picture below as the iPhone increases the contrast.

Filmed in MGM Camera 65 not CinemaScope. "very well-regarded sword & sandals CinemaScope film"

The Bible / The Robe Double Feature Blu-ray on Amazon is $14.35. I think I might have it. I'll have to check.

Solomon and Sheba looks like 4K (it's not) compared to the SD Land of The Pharaohs on TCM.

Barabbas DVD vs Blu-ray

On TCMHD:

I have searched the internet and cannot find the scene in a movie where an male actor is running around telling people that Jesus Christ has risen. Anyone remember that scene and what movie it's from?

Barabbas and The Long Ships were both filmed in Technirama (8 perf horizontal 35mm anamorphic).

Koch Rimini Opening Editions

Only flat 2.2 70mm prints were created. Only Cinerama theatres could show 2.76 and they were showing other film titles that were promoted as being in Cinerama, although 70mm Cinerama not 3-panel.

The previous Koch Blu-ray had overture, intermission, exit music and DTS-HD sound.

1.77 of the original Ultra Panavision 2.76 is about one third. It was released in flat 70mm 2.2 so 20% of that.

YouTube not sure if similar to DVD Blu-ray

HD master from the 65mm negative? That's probably the only way we will get the full Ultra Panavision 2.76 AR. We do have that AR for the following on Blu-ray: 1959 Ben-Hur 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty 1963 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told 1965 Battle of the Bulge...

Hoping for the full 2.76 AR for the FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE!

YouTube CineSavant

I would buy a Blu-Ray of it if it was in English and Region A.

Also on eBay and recently on TCMHD.

When was this released in the US? I can't find any newspaper ads except for when it was broadcast on TV in 1963.

Some scenes do look a bit soft, others not so bad.

It's easier to transfer 35mm horizontal Technirama than 70mm Ultra Panavision to video?

Technirama 70 is a 70mm release format. It was shot in 35mm, horizontal eight perforations with 1.5 anamorphic squeeze - Technirama.

Yes, that's what I said in post #178. Obviously there must have been masking (area with no picture information) on the negative for the maximum AR of 2.55:1, similar to the following which is VistaVision 2:1 AR (not Technirama 2.55 below but masked on the top and bottom) from widescreenmuseum...