Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by tinear (A) on April 22, 2014 at 08:50:40

In Reply to: RE: "135mm! " In diameter? posted by Victor Khomenko on April 21, 2014 at 07:53:36

"The film was initially planned to be photographed in 3-film-strip Cinerama (like How the West Was Won), because it was a part of a production/distribution deal between MGM and Cinerama Releasing corporation, but that was changed to Super Panavision 70 (which uses a single-strip 65 mm negative) on the advice of special photographic effects supervisor Douglas Trumbull, due to distortion problems with the 3-strip system.[67] Color processing and 35 mm release prints were done using Technicolor's dye transfer process. The 70 mm prints were made by MGM Laboratories, Inc. on Metrocolor. The production was $4.5 million over the initial $6.0 million budget, and sixteen months behind schedule.[61]"
I saw the film in original release in one of the few theaters that were built with wrap-around screens, a precursor of IMAX of sorts. It was, truly, mind altering (yes, I was in a "receptive" state, and I don't mean just Minnesota….).