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Cinerama Goes to Venice | Read more at in70mm.com The 70mm Newsletter |
| Written by: Randy Gitsch, The Cinerama Restoration Crew | Date: 15.08.2012 |
 From lost and faded, to curved with color: CINERAMA is BACK!Friends, The Venice International Film Festival has now finalized the schedule for its 69th edition, and we wanted you to be the first to know when and where you'll get to see digital Cinerama within it. Our latest digitally restored, remastered, recombined, and Smileboxed® feature, "CINERAMA SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE" (1958) will screen three (3) times during the tail end of the festival. Our Master Class presentation, "CINERAMA RESTORATION...IN THE DIGITAL AGE" will kick things off, starting at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, Sept. 5, in the Sala Pasinetti, located in the Palazzo del Cinema. I will moderate a 60 minute discussion with Michael Wilder, of Image Trends, Austin, TX, who was responsible for the team who scanned and reassembled the three Cinerama film panels, and David Strohmaier, of Van Nuys, CA, my production partner and the man who's supervised this restoration and that of the whole Cinerama library. Thereafter, armed as you'll be with an understanding of just how unique and difficult this restoration was, you'll be able to see the last of the original, three-panel Cinerama travelogues, "CINERAMA SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE", at; | More in 70mm reading: Dave Strohmaier and Randy Gitsch - in conversation with Mark Lyndon Historic Big Screen Films Get Major Digital Makeover in70mm.com's Cinerama page Internet link: |
| Thursday, Sept. 6 -Sala Perla, in the Palazzo del Cinema -4:30 P.M. Friday, Sept. 7 -Sala Volpi, in the Palazzo del Cinema -9:00 P.M. Saturday, Sept. 8 -Sala Perla, in the Palazzo del Cinema -9:00 A.M. We'll all be in Venice only through the morning of the 7th, so we'll hope you get to see some digital Cinerama, with or without us. Enjoy! | |
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