(Photo: Thomas Hauerslev)
By Bruce Campbell
Over four days the 2013 Bradford Widescreen Festival located at The Pictureville Cinema played host to a mixture of classics in 70mm, CinemaScope and Cinerama formats. There was a special tribute to the 60th anniversary of CinemaScope, the famous widescreen process developed for Twentieth Century Fox back in the 1950s.
Friday kicked off with a rare 70mm screening of The Longest Day preceded by an informative introduction by Sir Christopher Frayling. This was followed by the much- loved The Great Escape presented for the first time in 4K Digital and the picture and sound were simply stunning. Cinema Retro contributor Dr. Sheldon Hall provided an illuminating introduction to this war classic. Following the delegates’ reception in the Kodak Gallery, The Sound of Music was presented in 70mm. The print was generally good although three quarters of the way through, a reel snapped resulting in a...
By Bruce Campbell
Over four days the 2013 Bradford Widescreen Festival located at The Pictureville Cinema played host to a mixture of classics in 70mm, CinemaScope and Cinerama formats. There was a special tribute to the 60th anniversary of CinemaScope, the famous widescreen process developed for Twentieth Century Fox back in the 1950s.
Friday kicked off with a rare 70mm screening of The Longest Day preceded by an informative introduction by Sir Christopher Frayling. This was followed by the much- loved The Great Escape presented for the first time in 4K Digital and the picture and sound were simply stunning. Cinema Retro contributor Dr. Sheldon Hall provided an illuminating introduction to this war classic. Following the delegates’ reception in the Kodak Gallery, The Sound of Music was presented in 70mm. The print was generally good although three quarters of the way through, a reel snapped resulting in a...
- 4/30/2013
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
As your dedicated publishers prepare to embark on our journey to the 2012 Widescreen Weekend at the National Media Museum in Bradford, England, we've finally got around to looking at photos from last year's festival. (Expediency is not one of our top qualities.) Here are some photos we snapped during the course of watching back-to-back widescreen epics from morning till late at night.
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2011: Cinema Retro's Dave Worrall and Lee Pfeiffer take a quick smoking break during the endurance-testing morning-till-late evening epic movie marathons. Worrall is wearing the one of-a-kind Cinema Retro Where Eagles Dare commemorative shirt. We should have had hundreds made- everyone wanted to buy one!
2011: The audience was treated to a rare original trailer for The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm in 3 panel Cinerama. This year, Cinema Retro is co-sponsoring a screening of the full film.
2011: The ice...
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2011: Cinema Retro's Dave Worrall and Lee Pfeiffer take a quick smoking break during the endurance-testing morning-till-late evening epic movie marathons. Worrall is wearing the one of-a-kind Cinema Retro Where Eagles Dare commemorative shirt. We should have had hundreds made- everyone wanted to buy one!
2011: The audience was treated to a rare original trailer for The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm in 3 panel Cinerama. This year, Cinema Retro is co-sponsoring a screening of the full film.
2011: The ice...
- 4/18/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Thomas Hauerslev, who runs the fantastic retro movie web site In70mm.com, provides this full schedule for this year's Widescreen Weekend festival in Bradford, England. (Thomas also does yeoman work as one of the programmers for the festival.) The theme of this year's program is the celebration of the 60th anniversary of Cinerama. It will be a treasure trove of films rarely seen in their original format, ranging from three-panel Cinerama to Super Panavision 70 prints. Titles include the rarely-seen Russian Adventure, How the West Was Won, Ryan's Daughter, This is Cinerama, Cinerama Adventure, Around the World in 80 Days and The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, shown for the first time in 40 years in three panel Cinerama (co-sponsored by Cinema Retro). The festival draws classic film historians from around the world, this year including Kevin Brownlow and Sir Christopher Frayling. Cinerama historians Dave Strohmaier ad Randy Gitsch will...
- 4/17/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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