Douglas Trumbull on 70mm filmmaking

Film director & visual effects visionary Douglas Trumbull talks about the benefits of experiencing films in 70mm.

TIFF presents 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, directed by Stanley Kubrick. See it at TIFF Bell Lightbox in glorious 70mm! Exclusive engagement opens December 9, 2010.

Our 70mm presentations continue with: Jacques Tati's PLAY TIME and David Lean's LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.

For showtimes, visit http://tiff.net/2001

Category:

Film & Animation

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• 2001 a space odyssey
• kubrick
• trumbull
• visual
• effects
• 70mm
• film
• filmmaking
• cinema
• tiff bell lightbox
• cinerama
• imax
• camera

[EmpireLS56KW]

If you’re going to show 2001: A Space Odyssey in 70mm you exhibit it in its full entity Cinerama! What is the point of condensing the image scale down to wimpy size along with a fucking remix that isn’t true to the original 6track mag with five-screen and mono surround? You might as well show the film on the few surviving Cinerama screens or resurrect the format again since 3D has been resurrected why stop with 3D lets have Cinerama back in cinemas!

[EmpireLS56KW]

I don’t think there are that many purpose built surviving Cinerama screens left in the world today. My home town Bournemouth Cinerama screen thou the original deep curved screen is now gone. The cinema itself is still there and the original projection system I think was removed early 1970’s. I was too young to remember I’ve only read history on Cinerama never seen it first hand being projected.

[ScrapNfight]

2001 was not one of the first. CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG was in SUPER PANAVISION in 1968 also. WEST SIDE STORY in 1961 followed by LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and MY FAIR LADY. In 1970 SONG OF NORWAY came along. 17 films in all between 1959 and 1983

[wakeupfist]

@EmpireLS56KW

I't be nice to have it back, especially since I never experienced it but I think even more immersive formats are in the works.

[EmpireLS56KW]

@laserboy4 Is that it 30 foot wide screen LOL I think the Empire at London is 46 feet wide or largest THX screen in the UK with 56KW JBL custom THX. Too bad they disconnected the Phillips 70mm projector because all they show is rubbish digital projection and I don’t trust it after seeing The Spy Who Loved Me with DNR on the image and yes EE WTF WTF WTF! Also the digital sound failed big time 60 min into the film with loss of centre channel! WTF! Never again digital fails 70mm Film Rules!

[EmpireLS56KW]

Doug mentioned digital! Was it original 6track sourced from the mag stripe with 5-screen and mono surround because that is how it was exhibited, not those rubbish remixes where they carted stereo surrounds and reduced all the wild wide crazy dialogue panning that moved around over the five-screen then condensed it down to centre with only now and then parcel dialogue pans like on the crappy bluray! SIGH

[laserboy4]

I saw 2001 last night at the TIFF Lightbox. The sound was great, the print wasn't perfect but it was very good however the screen was WAY too small at perhaps 30 or so feet wide. Trumbull is wrong here. 2001 deserves to be seen on a large screen in 70MM, not a 30 foot screen. TIFF Lightbox is fantastic, no doubt about it but they really need to re-think the size of their screens in their major auditoriums, they did everything perfect at the Lightbox except their screen sizes.

[USTUBE4000]

I saw his presentation at TIFF Lightbox in Dec 2010 for both his talk on 2001 and Blade Runner and they were both amazing. He is also a very nice person. Great to have met him and asked him a few questions.

[francispelletier]

YEAH ! thank you Andrewwwwwww !