Kehr flubs “El Cid” tech specs
Not to nitpick, but N.Y. Times DVD columnist Dave Kehr has gotten it slightly wrong in his review of the new double-disc El Cid DVD by claiming it was “filmed in Super Technirama, a 70-millimeter widescreen process.” Anthony Mann‘s epic was actually filmed (as was Spartacus) on a 35mm, 8-perf, horizontal-through-the-gate process that was then blown up into 70mm. The correct term would be that it was shown or “presented” in Super Technirama 70.
Otherwise, Kehr does a nice job of explaining the various financial motives and political back-currents behind the making of El Cid, and the resultant metaphors that one could fairly apply to the finished film.
Wells, I was there last night. Where were you? I thought we were going to go out for a steak and a steam? What the fuck?
Kehr is probably going to lose sleep over this tonight.
At the risk of making you look foolish Jeff, I think you’ve got everything wrong on this one. I’m fairly sure that Technirama essentially was a camera systema had the film running through the projecter basically sideways, and allowed the exposure of basically two frames of 35mm film at the same time, thus creating a true 70mm frame. Anything called Technirama ALWAYS used this format for FILMING, but the presentation might be different.
Here’s the link at the widescreen museum: http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/wingtr3.htm
I think the confusion comes from the fact that some of the films were filmed in Technirama (That is: a process of having the films run sideways through the camera and exposing the equivalent of two frames of film for a total of about 70mm), but the PRESENTATION of the films was originally was either in a 35 mmm reduction format or a SuperTechnirama presentation, OR (with later films) a conversion to true 70 mm from the original Technirama elements (like with Spartacus and El Cid).
So in a nutshell; El Cid was filmed in glorious hi res Technirama…
I might be wrong on this but I’m pretty sure I read the widescreen museum correctly…
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