KHARTOUM opening in Ultra-Curve.
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Simulation of the super wide 70mm system ultra panavision 70 projected on a curved Cinerama screen. Ultra-Curve is similar to Smile Box in trying to recreate the viseral feel of the classic Road Show experience of a 70mm movie on a giant, curved screen.
One of my favourite movies
Great movie
This is terrific because you do see all the image, but it's not like the genuine immersive film experience that real Ultra Panavision 70mm and all the other 70mm processes brought to the screen. The shape of the curve and the full image itself is accurate, but unless you're actually watching an Ultra Panavision 70 print, projected on a Cinerama screen, from a 70 mm projector - it's not the real thing. This does explain to much younger film buffs why knockout 70 mm visuals kept these sprawling epics and hit musicals running at the same cinemas for months and sometimes years, however, which is great. The experience was amazing. I think it's great that you're doing this so let's see more.
I don't see why this didn't catch on. It's an awesomely immersive format. All you needed were ultra-wide fisheye lenses to counteract the stretch of the curve and you'd have Cinerama with a single strip of film instead of 3.
This was when the original three strips projected from three Cinerama projectors was abandoned. 'It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was the first regular 70 mm film projected like this. And a terrible film that was. This was a terrific film, but as wide and huge as it was, it was NOT quite as wide as original Cinerama. But it was way better. You could project Todd AO, or any of the 70 prints onto this huge screen and still get a razor sharp image, BUT if it wasn't a real Todd-AO screen, for example, the screen was still massive, but the original immersive experience of that particular process, for example, was gone. Wish you'd been there!
Never thought I would be watching Khartoum like this, pretty nice I have now.
This would have been amazing at the Phoenix Cine Capri (now gone). It was another deeply curved screen system called D150.
D150 was almost the same as this process to be honest. The screen size was the same, if my projectionist memory serves. Patton and The Bible were filmed in this process I think.
This looks fantastic, so much better than SmileBox. It looks like it's been slightly stretched on the sides but not so much that it completely distorts the picture and it gives a very idea of what curved screen projection would have felt like in 1965.
glad you like it. Ive 'converted ' all the 70mm cinerama, D-150 and some Todd-ao productions that were originally screened on a curved screen. It does give a more immersive effect especially on a projector. may put up some more clips.
Please do. I'd love to see them that way. Are you anywhere in So. California?
will do. No Im in UK. ive recently done a conversion of Brothers Grimm sadly from dvd though.
if this became an actual theater, the screen should be a giant 16k LED screen with Dolby Vision, and taller than any IMAX screen. The theater should also consist of the DTS:X sound system and comforting reclining seats that vibrate, plus dine-in. Movies can be either 2d or 3d depending on the film. Imagine something like that in Avatar 2.
Wrong. Imax was, and still is, much deeper than Ultra Panavision 70 - or any of the 70 mm processes. But this was WAAAY better to look at than any Imax film. More immersive. And sharper. Trust me. I'm one of the over 70's who was once a film mad, twenty something projectionist. You can't watch Imax for three hours without feeling dizzy, because in real life you don't see this scope of vision all at once. With Ultra Panavision 70, and all the other 70mm processes - you can.
Great scene of Hicks disaster in Sudan 🇸🇩 by Mahdi
I don't see much (if any) distortion when characters move towards the sides. Is this your own technology? Have you licensed it for any home video use? It's great!
Rich in 212 glad you like it. It’s not perfect but then I don’t think the original 70mm projections were perfect at the time. But i think it does gives the blu rays an extra dimension when projected. It is similer to smilebox but created differently. No its not licensed yet. I have created ultra-curve versions of all the cinerama 70mm, d-150 and some early Todd-ao movies as well as brothers Grimm.
@@richardhaines7123 Hi Richard, Its actually done with After effects using a plugin and and experimenting with the 3d camera. Obviously its a compromise and hard to eliminate a progressive squeeze towards the edge. When i project I zoom the edges out to give above 2.60:1 on the screen. From research it seems in practice 70mm cinerama was usually projected to fill the orginal 3 camera screens which as you know have a slightly narrower AR. I doubt 2.75:1 was ever projected commercially in cinerama [being way too young to have seen for myself... i don't know!!}. I have made ultra-curve versions for the super panavision/ todd aos etc which actually look better as there are alot less black bars to deal with. I've also done Brother Grimm using a weak SD source. Its all abit of fun but I was so taken by the cinerama smilebox releases, I thought I'd have a go!!!!
@@richardhaines7123 ps feel free to email me - marlbrouk@outlook.com
Did you email me ? I think I found an email in my junk folder and sent to inbox and it totally vanished!!!!
marlbrouk do u have any of these Ultra Curve versions to put online as clips?This is WAYY better than Smilebox. Do you have a Ultra Curve version of Its A Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World?
I wish modenr movies had this immensity. Now it's just computer-generated cartoons that cost more than the real shit ever did. Late capitalism is a joke.
What you'd have to have though, is great film with wonderful stories to tell. I can't recall the last time I saw one.