Some of the films made in 70 mm:
| Logan's Run 1976 A Star Is Born 1976 Star Wars 1977 Close Encounters Of The Third Kind 1977 Days Of Heaven 1978 The Deer Hunter 1978 Grease 1978 The Manitou 1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1978 Superman 1978 The Wiz 1978 Alien 1979 Apocalypse Now 1979 The Black Hole 1979 The Black Stallion 1979 The Exorcist (Re-Issue) 1979 Hair 1979 Hanover Street 1979 Hurricane 1979 Moonraker 1979 The Muppet Movie 1979 The Rose 1979 Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979 Tess 1979 Altered States 1980 The Blues Brothers 1980 Can't Stop The Music 1980 Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (Re-Issue)1980 Divine Madness 1980 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Fame 1980 Flash Gordon 1980 Heaven's Gate 1980 The Island 1980 The Jazz Singer 1980 Raise The Titanic 1980 Saturn 3 1980 Chariots Of Fire 1981 Dance Craze 1981 Das Boot (The Boat) 1981 Dragonslayer 1981 Heaven's Gate (Re-Issue) 1981 Outland 1981 Raiders Of The Lost Ark 1981 Sharkey's Machine 1981 Superman II 1981 Wolfen 1981 Annie 1982 Blade Runner 1982 The Dark Crystal 1982 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 The Entity 1982 Firefox 1982 Gandhi 1982 Grease 2 1982 One From The Heart 1982 Pink Floyd: The Wall 1982 Poltergeist 1982 Quest For Fire 1982 The Road Warrior 1982 Rocky III 1982 Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan 1982 Tempest 1982 The Thing 1982 Tron 1982 Yes, Georgio 1982 Blue Thunder 1983 Brainstorm 1983 The Keep 1983 Krull 1983 Never Say Never Again 1983 Octopussy 1983 Return Of The Jedi 1983 The Right Stuff 1983 The Star Chamber 1983 Staying Alive 1983 Superman III 1983 WarGames 1983 2010 1984 The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai 1984 Amadeus 1984 The Bear 1984 The Bounty 1984 Carmen 1984 City Heat 1984 The Cotton Club 1984 Country 1984 Dune 1984 Fort Saganne 1984 Ghostbusters 1984 Give My Regards To Broad Street 1984 Gremlins 1984 Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan 1984 Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom 1984 The Killing Fields 1984 The Last Starfighter 1984 Metropolis (Re-Issue) 1984 The Razor's Edge 1984 The River 1984 Star Trek III: The Search For Spock 1984 Starman 1984 Streets Of Fire 1984 Supergirl 1984 Die Unedliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story) 1984 American Flyers 1985 Baby: Secret Of The Lost Legend 1985 Back To The Future 1985 The Black Cauldron 1982 Bring On The Night 1985 A Chorus Line 1985 Cocoon 1985 The Emerald Forest 1985 Enemy Mine 1985 Explorers 1985 The Goonies 1985 King David 1985 Ladyhawke 1985 The Last Dragon 1985 Legend 1985 Lifeforce 1985 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985 Out Of Africa 1985 Pale Rider 1985 Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985 Ran 1985 Return To Oz 1985 Revolution 1985 Rocky IV 1985 Santa Claus 1985 Silverado 1985 Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin 1985 A View To A Kill 1985 White Nights 1985 Year Of The Dragon 1985 Young Sherlock Holmes 1985 Absolute Beginners 1986 Aliens 1986 Big Trouble In Little China 1986 The Clan Of The Cave Bear 1986 The Color Of Money 1986 |
Down And Out In Beverly Hills 1986 The Fly 1986 Highlander 1986 Howard The Duck 1986 Iron Eagle 1986 Labyrinth 1986 Legal Eagles 1986 Little Shop Of Horrors 1986 Manhunter 1986 The Mission 1986 The Money Pit 1986 Der Name Der Rose (The Name of the Rose) 1986 Nutcracker: The Motion Picture 1986 Pirates 1986 Poltergeist II: The Other Side 1986 SpaceCamp 1986 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986 Top Gun 1986 Tough Guys 1986 Adventures In Babysitting 1987 Beverly Hills Cop II 1987 Cry Freedom 1987 Empire Of The Sun 1987 Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 Innerspace 1987 The Last Emperor 1987 Lethal Weapon 1987 The Lost Boys 1987 Over The Top 1987 Platoon 1987 Predator 1987 RoboCop 1987 The Running Man 1987 The Sicilian 1987 Spaceballs 1987 Stakeout 1987 Three Men And A Baby 1987 The Untouchables 1987 Who's That Girl 1987 The Witches Of Eastwick 1987 The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen 1988 Akira 1988 Alien Nation 1988 Beaches 1988 Cocoon: The Return 1988 Cobra Verde 1988 Die Hard 1988 Gorillas In The Mist 1988 Le Grand Bleu (The Big Blue) 1988 Kansas 1988 The Last Temptation Of Christ 1988 L'Ours (The Bear) 1988 Pathfinder 1988 The Presidio 1988 Shoot To Kill 1988 Tucker: The Man And His Dream 1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Willow 1988 The Abyss 1989 Always 1989 Back To The Future Part II 1989 Batman 1989 Black Rain 1989 Born On The Fourth Of July 1989 Casualties Of War 1989 Dead Poet's Society 1989 Glory 1989 In Country 1989 Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade 1989 Lawrence of Arabia 1989 Lethal Weapon 2 1989 The Little Mermaid 1989 Slipstream 1989 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 1989 Tango & Cash 1989 Valmont 1989 Air America 1990 Arachnophobia 1990 Back To The Future Part III 1990 The Bonfire Of The Vanities 1990 Dances With Wolves 1990 Days Of Thunder1990 Dick Tracy 1990 Die Hard 2 1990 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Fantasia (Re-Issue) 1990 Flatliners 1990 The Godfather Part III 1990 Gremlins 2: The New Batch 1990 Havana 1990 The Hunt For Red October 1990 Memphis Belle 1990 Mountains Of The Moon 1990 Narrow Margin 1990 Predator 2 1990 RoboCop 2 1990 The Rookie 1990 The Sheltering Sky 1990 Total Recall 1990 The Two Jakes 1990 Backdraft 1991 Beauty And The Beast 1991 The Doors 1991 Final Approach 1991 Flight Of The Intruder 1991 For The Boys 1991 Hook 1991 The Last Boy Scout 1991 Point Break 1991 The Rocketeer 1991 Spartacus (re-issue) 1991 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 1492: Conquest Of Paradise 1992 Alien 3 1992 Baraka 1992 Far and Away 1992 Hoffa 1992 Howards End 1992 The Last Of The Mohicans 1992 Lethal Weapon 3 1992 Patriot Games 1992 Shining Through 1992 Cliffhanger 1993 Geronimo: An American Legend 1993 Gettysburg 1993 In The Line Of Fire 1993 Last Action Hero 1993 The Remains Of The Day 1993 Short Cuts 1993 Little Buddha 1994 True Lies 1994 My Fair Lady (re-issue) 1994 Tour Eiffel 1994 Hamlet 1996 Titanic 1997 2001:A Space Odyssey (re-issue) 2001 |
70mm six-track dolby stereo
70 mm film (or 65 mm film) is a high-resolution motion picture film format. As used in camera, the film is 65 mm wide; for projection 2.5 mm are added along each outer side of the perforations for magnetic strips holding six tracks of surround sound, although in truth, the magnetic sound system is rarely used anymore. Each frame is five perforations tall, with an aspect ratio of 2.20.
With the introduction of "Todd-AO", 65 mm/70 mm became popular during the 1950s for the wide screen, sharp picture and, most importantly, high quality sound. The advent of low-grain film stocks and availability of digital soundtrack systems for less expensive and more widely projectable 35 mm film lead to a decline in use of this expensive format in the 1990s. Lawrence of Arabia is a well-known film in 70 mm format; the clarity of its picture is apparent in theaters, though much less so on VHS or DVD.
Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind was mainly shot on 35 mm film, but the effects sequences were shot on 70 mm film. Special effects man Douglas Trumbull (who later invented Showscan) decided to do this so that there would be no loss of quality which might subconsciously "warn" moviegoers that an effects sequence coming up.
Starting in the late 1950s until the mid-1990s, many 35 mm films were converted onto 70 mm prints for premiere showings in large cities or venues which could accompany the format. Often this was not just for issues of image size, but more because of the six magnetic sound tracks available (versus two optical sound tracks on 35 mm) with 70 mm prints. Since the introduction of DTS, SDDS, and Dolby Digital, 70 mm lost this advantage, and a significantly lower number of 70 mm prints typically are struck today.
technical specs
- Standard 65 mm (5/70) (Todd-AO, Super Panavision )
- spherical lenses
- 5 perforations per frame
- 12.8 frame/ft (42 frame/m)
- vertical pulldown
- 24 frames per second
- camera aperture: 2.066 by 0.906 in (52.48 by 23.01 mm)
- projection aperture: 1.912 by 0.816 in (48.56 by 20.73 mm)
- 1000 feet (305 m), about 9 minutes at 24 frame/s = 10 pounds (4.54 kg) in can
The largest film gauge for films intended to be shown in conventional (i.e. not IMAX or other specialist) cinemas, 70mm offers potentially far greater picture definition and multi-channel surround sound. If the film was shot on high-resolution 65mm negative (the remaining 5mm on the resulting print being used for up to six soundtracks), the result is an extraordinarily sharp and detailed picture - few who have seen Lawrence of Arabia or 2001: A Space Odyssey in 70mm have ever forgotten the experience.
Though comparatively few films were shot in 65mm, 70mm presentations were once very common in larger showcase cinemas - although there was no significant picture improvement if the film was shot on 35mm, the six-channel surround sound was far superior to anything else on offer at the time. However, due to the expense of creating 70mm prints, when digital surround sound formats such as Dolby Digital, DTS and SDDS were introduced in cinemas in the early 1990s, 70mm presentations rapidly died out - rare exceptions included Kenneth Branagh's shot-on-65mm Hamlet (1996) and Titanic (US, 1997). Star Wars was the first 70mm format wide release.