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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Best Blu-ray ever?

This looks spectacular. The frame grabs are off the charts.

I bet Mullen will upgrade his TV to 1080p for this. :gun: :)
 
Thanks for the heads up, looks even better than I had hoped. I just might have to get Blu-Ray on of these days. Very Cool.
 
It looks great on my current 720P monitor!

The Cinerama Adventure documentary is well worth watching as well.

Two years ago, I saw "How the West Was Won" in brand-new 3-panel prints, projected in the original Cinerama format at the Cinerama Dome (the first time actually the Cinerama Dome had ever shown Cinerama - despite building the three projection rooms for the process, by the time it opened in 1963, Pacific Theaters had ditched the three-projector process for 70mm print projection.)

It was amazing, almost IMAX in quality, but very widescreen. The three projector system was ideal for a curved screen presentation since each projector only had to maintain sharpness on one-third of the very wide screen.

Tom, you should definitely take a look at this new Blu-Ray version.

You have to remember that three 6-perf 35mm Full Aperture frames is a total negative of around 72mm x 27mm. 5-perf 65mm, in comparison, is 52mm x 23mm.
 
Thats awesome; I'd love to catch it in cinerama.

I wonder if there's ay home theater solution to make appropriate use of the curved version of the film; maybe a projector screen curved in a similar manner? In the future, we'd obviously just use a fold out OLED screen :).
 
It was a single camera with three 35mm movements, three gates, three magazines, and three lenses (each 27mm) -- each 35mm frame was a little bigger than S35 being 6-perfs tall instead of 4-perfs tall. A 27mm lens in S35 has a field of view of around 48 degrees, so three together provided a view of 146 degrees -- for a single lens to do that in S35, you'd need something like a 8mm lens.

See:
http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/wingcr1.htm
 
Thanks for finding this Craig. This release is on my to-buy list. The film blew my socks off as a kid with the wrap-around screen and six channel sound. The Blu-ray is a reminder of how that felt. These days though who can take it seriously as history? Especially when Debbie Reynolds bursts into song.
 
I've never seen this film. Besides the photography, is the flick good?

David Mullen ASC said:
...and three lenses (each 27mm)
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3 lenses? so that means you couldn't focal lengths? every cinerama film was shot entirely with 27mm lenses?
 
Lovely... totally awesome... Red should make the 3D plate able to take three cameras and do the 45 degrees inward with the two on the exterior... then shoot "How Hollywood was Won" using three 617's :)
 
Brandon said:
I've never seen this film. Besides the photography, is the flick good?



3 lenses? so that means you couldn't focal lengths? every cinerama film was shot entirely with 27mm lenses?
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If the film is supposed to be a fictionalised "history" of how the west was actually won then it's bunk. But as a fairy tale its ok if you accept Debbie Reynolds bursting into song is still a "western".

As I understand it the configuration of the lenses and the angles of the 3 cameras made it impossible to change lenses. Everything was blocked out to place the actors closer to the camera for a close-up. But if you were sitting in the right spot in the theatre it all looked totally natural to the viewpoint. If there was a "process" effects shot then 65mm cameras were used such as in the rapids scene which was back-projection I think. These scenes would be printed later to the 3-strip prints.
 
Kubrick collection and Godfather Coppola Restoration is must have on Blu-ray for every serious RED user.
 
Looking forward to Santa bringing my Bluray player to complete the home theatre.

I have heard that Wall-E is a must-own, simply because the computer animated stuff looks so amazing on Bluray. No grain, no film artifacts, etc.

Does anyone have opinions on the Imax films that have been released on Bluray? I saw an HD broadcast of Hail Columbia last week and it was very disappointing. It was an out of registration telecine with only a stereo soundtrack. I know that for a long time Imax films were optically reduced to 35mm for video transfer because no one could scan 70mm. Are the more recent Imax films treated better?
 
Here are the titles I want on 1080p Bluray...

The New World
The Thin Red Line
Barry Lyndon
In The Mood For Love
Koyaanistqatsi
 
I always wanted to see this in a dome theatre, until then, this is a must!
 
Tom Lowe said:
This looks spectacular. The frame grabs are off the charts.

I bet Mullen will upgrade his TV to 1080p for this. :gun: :)
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I will ;-)
 
Tom Lowe said:
Here are the titles I want on 1080p Bluray...

The New World
The Thin Red Line
Barry Lyndon
In The Mood For Love
Koyaanistqatsi
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I'll be getting this as the standard def DVD version I have is absolute crap.

There are several scenes where the three screens don't align and Jimmy's head appears to have been cleft by some random Indian. It's really quite a bad transfer and I loved this movie as a kid.

Great list Tom, I'm wait listed / pre-ordered for the blu-ray release of Road to Perdition coming out soon. Off the top of my head I'd also add: Three Colors Bleu, Amélie, and Lawrence of Arabia, and the extended versions of the LOTR trilogy
 
Stephen Lovett said:
I'll be getting this as the standard def DVD version I have is absolute crap.

There are several scenes where the three screens don't align and Jimmy's head appears to have been cleft by some random Indian. It's really quite a bad transfer and I loved this movie as a kid.

Great list Tom, I'm wait listed / pre-ordered for the blu-ray release of Road to Perdition coming out soon. Off the top of my head I'd also add: Three Colors Bleu, Amélie, and Lawrence of Arabia, and the extended versions of the LOTR trilogy
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Three Colors aired on nordic movie channel SilverHD.Also Amelie is on bluray by multiple distributors (each one has different transfer and PQ)
http://forum.blu-ray.com/2637528-post1713.html check here (i prefer japanese release it looks better than these)
 
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