The 70mm Newsletter

Mission Statement

Inspired by Mr. Willem Bouwmeester´s encouragement "The International 70mm Association" - a promotion club for 70mm film - was founded in 1988 by Mr. Johan Wolthuis in The Netherlands.

The original idea was

"Encourage film makers to produce and make new films in 65mm, present them in 70mm with 6-track discrete digital sound on big curved screens".

"The 70mm Association Newsletter" was the "voice" of The International 70mm Association. The magazine title was changed a couple of times, and "in70mm.com", is the latest incarnation of the newsletter.

THE 70MM NEWSLETTER

The web site editor took up the challenge of editing The 70mm Newsletter when Mr. Wolthuis (Holland) passed on the task to Thomas Hauerslev (Denmark) in late 1994.

The magazine underwent dramatic changes since issue #1 in December 1988. The number of pages tripled and from issue 36 the magazine (nearly) always only featured original articles written exclusively for in70mm - The 70mm Newsletter by leading writers in their fields.

The magazine was never a commercial venture - nor was it intended to be. It had a lot of fans and the number of subscribers climaxed in 2000. The last issue was published in the fall of 2001 when the editor decided to stop for a number of reasons. Special edition issues #68 - #70 have been made for the Widescreen Weekend.

For 7 years, when the magazine was produced regularly, it was edited and published in Copenhagen. It didn't change a world, but it was a player on the international scene of 70mm film fans.

The work is continuing on-line at in70mm.com

Issue 70 March 2005
Working for Mike Todd
Working for Todd-AO
Walter Siegmund Interview

Issue 69 March 2004
Introducing Sensurround
Making "Treasure Seekers" in 70mm
Issue 69 PDF

Issue 68 March 2004
The Danes and the Windjammer
Ultra Panavision 70 lens
D-150 Super Curvulon lens
New 70mm print of "It´s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
Issue 68 PDF

Issue 67 March 2002
The Importance of Panavision
Hollywood Comes to American Optical Company
What's Todd-AO?
The Amazing Optical Adventure of Todd-AO
Credits: "Baraka"
In the Splendour of 70mm

Issue 66 November 2001
Todd-AO: The Show of Shows
Cinema: Kinopalæet Super Cinerama in Copenhagen
"Pearl Harbour" in 70mm DTS
Will IMAX fade to Black?
News From LFCA
ARC-120
Creating the Widescreen Weekend
The Passing of Louis de Rochemont
Credits: "Windjammer"
The Passing of Steen S. Larsen
70mm in Norway
70mm in Sweden
Book review: "So You Wanna be a Director?"
News from London
Final Words from The Editor

Issue 65 July 2001
AB Global
Ken Annakin Interview
Wide Screen Weekend 2001
Filming of "A Year Along the Abandoned Road"
Classics at the Royal
"Cinerama Adventure" update
Arcadia Cinema, Melzo, Italy
"Beauty and the Beast" in IMAX
Indian Hills demolished
The Passing of John Vorisek

Issue 64 March 2001
Magnified Grandeur.
New 70mm Process Demonstrated.
Cinestage 34mm in London.
140 subscribers.
Cinerama Society News
Cinema: Saga, Hälsingborg, Sweden
Credits: “2001: A Space Odyssey"

Plus a 4-page Wide Screen Weekend supplement on how to plan and project the Wide Screen Weekend at the Pictureville cinema.

Issue 63 December 2000
To Split or not to Split
“Dinosaur" in 70mm DTS
2000 Egyptian Theatre 70mm Festival.
“2001: A Space Odyssey” in digital sound
Credits: "Testaments"
Filming: “Testaments”
Review: “The Witness”

Issue 62 September 2000
Todd-AO at “Sea”
Dolby Stereo 70mm
Philips Cinema
Technirama Uddate
Cinema: Final curtain for the Cinedome, Los Angeles, USA
70mm in Oslo
Director Shows 70mm 3-D At LFCA

Issue 61 June 2000
The Technirama Story
Technirama on wheels
News from London
Wide Screen Weekend 2000
The Audience rules for LFCA

Special
Planning the Wide Screen Weekend.
Projecting the Wide Screen Weekend
Cinema: Pictureville Cinema, Bradford, England

Issue 60 March 2000
Immersive Cinema
Mercedes in 70mm
Is "Tron" filmed in 65mm?
Yes, "Tron" is 65mm
Baraka - A Visual Journal
"Oklahoma!" premiere dates
"Around the World in 80 Days" premiere dates
"South Pacific" premiere dates
Euromax
Cinema: 70mm DTS at the Dome, London, England
Credits: "The Witness"
Credits: "Blackadder Back & Forth"
Review: "Fantasia 2000"
Filming: "The Witness"
Filming: "Rheged: The Lost Kingdom"
Filming: "100%"

Issue 59 December 1999
Film Restoration
1999 Egyptian Theatre 70mm Festival
Cinema: The Rivoli Theatre, New York, USA

Issue 58 September 1999
Looking for DEFA 70
LFCA conference 1999
Digital Cinema
Cinema: Radio City Music Hall, New York, USA
Credits: "CineSpace 70"
Filming: "The Lost Kingdom"

Issue 57 June 1999
There were giants in the land
The Work of Jan Jacobsen
Wide Screen Weekend 1999
70mm in France
Introduction to "Orpheus in the Underworld"
"2001" bit and pieces
International 70mm Publishers meeting

Special
Planning the Wide Screen Weekend
Projecting the Wide Screen Weekend
Cinema: Pictureville Cinema, Bradford, England

Issue 56 March 1999
70mm´s last stand?
Planning the Wide Screen Weekend
Cinerama Down Under
The best 70mm Film
Interview: Ole Olsen, Print manager UIP, Denmark

Issue 55 December 1998
Jan Jacob Kotte portrait
70mm films in London
Cinema: "Biffen" The smallest show on earth
Cinema: ABC Shaftsbury Avenue 1+2, London, England
1998 Best 70mm Vote

Issue 54 September 1998
Projecting the Wide Screen Weekend
In 70mm: Pik-A-Movie.
"Ryan´s Daughter" revisited
Jan Jacobsen Obituary.
Jan Jacobsen Story

Issue 53 June 1998
Wide Screen Weekend, Bradford 1998
That Sinking Feeling
A Titanic Day Out
70mm Meeting in Aalborg, Denmark.
Time Traveling to the New Neon.
"Mulan" in 70mm at the Hollywood Bowl.
"The Miracle of Todd-AO" Final review of 1956

Issue 52 March 1998
Life with THX in Hollywood, part #2
Titanic bits and pieces
From the editor
Cinema: 3 Falke Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark

Issue 51 December 1997
Life with THX in Hollywood, part #1
This is Oyster Bay
By Thomas Hauerslev
Behind her house, was Fred Waller's old barn a.k.a. "Waller Stvdio". In this barn all Waller's ideas took form. Water-skis, The Gunnery Trainer, Photometric Fit Picture and Cinerama.
London News December 1997
Cinematec - Park of the Moving Image
Cinema: Vinterpalatset, Stockholm, Sweden
The Big Fisherman
Letters: No Support of 70mm in Germany
Letters: "Exodus" and "West Side Story"
Letters: "Around the World in 80 days"

Issue 50 September 1997
Historical Wide Screen Gathering
Todd-AO: How it all Began, part # 4.
Review: "Hamlet"
Misconceptions about the Bradford setup
London News July 1997
Filmed in 70mm Format
Movies are never what they seem
70mm films 1896 - 1997.
IMAX sound system
Third Annual Wide Screen Film Festival
“Contact” in 65mm

Issue 49 June 1997
70mm Film in China
A Get Together in Dayton
By David Page
This "Cinerama Holiday" performance would see "in person" appearances by the 2 couples who starred in the 1955 film - the Marshes and the Trollers.
"Windjammer" Kitsch
Filming: "Harmony: Nature and Man" in D-150
Reading About D-150
Who is Who of D-150
Visual Display for U.C.L.A. Driving Simulator
D-150 Cinemas
Introduction to Dimension 150 Visual Display for U.C.L.A. Driving Simulator
Visual Display for U.C.L.A. Driving Simulator:
Dimension 150

Issue 48 March 1997
John O'Callaghan - 70mm Short Film Maker
Credits: "Warriors of the Wasteland"
Credits: "Dead Sea"
3rd Bradford Film Festival 1997
Review: "2001:A Space Odyssey" CD soundtrack re-release
The Rolling-Loop IMAX Projector
Credits: "Vertigo"
Release of "Hamlet" in 70mm

Issue 47 December 1996
Come Back Dimension 150
Dimension 150 Specifications
Cinema Expo 1996
Doris Waller obituary
Effects Channel Research
ISTC 1996
Interview: Johan Wolthuis
Cinema: "ID4" at the Spektrum, Oslo, Norway

Issue 46 September 1996
70mm and Digital Sound
What is DTS 70mm?
On the trail of "Windjammer" in Oslo
Will "Windjammer" Retun to Oslo
Interview: Projectionist Hans Braman
Credits: "The Miracle of Todd-AO",
Credits: "The March of Todd-AO"
Credits: "Svalbard - Arctic Seasons".
Cinema: Royal Cinema, Malmö, Sweden
70mm Print Report from Malmø

Issue 45 June 1996
Todd-AO: How it all Began, part #3
A Cinerama Holiday
Euromax 1996
70mm Films and Ashley Ward
Restorations
Cinema: Pictureville Cinema, Bradford, England
70mm Filming in India
The search for the Todd-AO 70mm projector

Issue 44 March 1996
Bradford Wide Screen Weekend
Todd-AO: How it all Began, part #2
Subscribers
Kinopanorama Update
Liga 68
Visit to the set of "Hamlet"
"Hamlet" cast & credits
The International Film Music Festival
The International Cinerama Society

Issue 43 February 1996
Extra Issue about "Hamlet" (4 pages)

Issue 42 December 1995
Todd-AO Distortion - Correcting Printing Process
Todd-AO: How it all Began, part #1
Todd-AO Mark III printer principle.
"Oklahoma!" Printing Operation
"Oklahoma!" 1982 re-release
Review: New York Times "Oklahoma!"
Review: Hollywood Reporter "Oklahoma!"
Credits: "Oklahoma!"
Cinema: Rivoli

Issue 41 October 1995
70mm films on Laserdisc part #2
Cinema: Harbour Lights Cinema, Southhampton, England

Issue 40 September 1995
My First Encounter with 70mm
Cinema Expo 1995
Format seminar
70mm films 1896 - 1994

Issue 39 June 1995
Film: "Tour Eiffel"
Interview: Kaliber 95
LaserDisc introduction #1
Comment about 70mm Restoration
"Samsara" An outline of the film
Ron Fricke - 70mm Film Maker
"Samsara" a 70mm project

Issue 38 April 1995
John Steven Lasher's Kinopanorama
Kinopanorama Camera
"Bounty" in Kinopanorama
Cinema: Theater aan de Parade
Credits: Restoration of "My Fair Lady"
Restoration of "My Fair Lady"

Issue 37 February 1995
The 70mm Promotion Tour #2
Freddy Young about Advantages and disadvantages of 70mm
Cinema: MGM Bournemouth
Filming: "Svalbard - Arctic Seasons"

Issue 36 December 1994
The 70mm Promotion Tour #1
A new Newsletter
Cinema: Biffen, Aalborg, Denmark
Dan Leimeter

Back Issues

All articles are available on-line.

1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005

News:
2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998

Articles sorted by writers

Back issues are available as photo copies (some originals still available, please ask) and priced at DKK 100,00 / USD 15.00 / EUR 13.00 per copy (Issue 1 - 40 only on special request). All including postage. Issues 1 - 36 are usually 8 pages and mostly photocopies of other articles.

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Issue 1 - 35 Published and edited by Johan C M Wolthuis 1988 - 1994

Issue 35 October 1994
Why 70mm?, 70mm Promotion Tour

Issue 34 September 1994
Mark Magidson on "Baraka"

Issue 33 August 1994
70mm in Paris, Filmhuis Delft

Issue 32 June 1994
"Tour Eiffel", Le Chateau du Cinema, Imax,

Issue 31 March 1994
70mm tour, Todd-AO Concept Tests, 70mm in Denmark

Issue 30 January 1994
"Wings of courage" in Imax 3D

Issue 29 December 1993
"Little Buddha" in ARRI 765

Issue 28 November 1993
Metropolis in Antverpen,

Issue 27 September 1993
Storaro on 70mm potential, "Baraka"

Issue 26 June 1993
Cinerama is back in England

Issue 25 March 1993
Future of 70mm, "Baraka" in Todd-AO 70mm, Rentals of 70mm films

Issue 24 December 1992
"Alien 3" partly in Panavision Super 70, 65/70mm facilities at Technicolor

Issue 23 November 1992
70mm projection, Pictureville, Bradford

Issue 22 September 1992
70mm projectors, 70mm in Australia

Issue 21 July 1992
70mm projection standard, SR.D

Issue 20 June 1992
"Far and away", Future of 65mm

Issue 19 May 1992
"Jesus was his name" in ARRI 765

Issue 18 January 1992
70mm in the UK, DP70

Issue 17 November 1991
"Far and away", M Hayes on 65mm

Issue 16 August 1991
Wim Wenders, El Capitan, Cinemaxx

Issue 15 June 1991
Does life begin at 65mm?

Issue 14 April 1991
"Spartacus"

Issue 13 February 1991
"Spartacus", "Along the abondoned road" short in Super Panavison 70.

Special
"Lawrence of Arabia" at the Casino (4 pages)

Issue 12 December 1990
Mad World update, "Blue Planet", Showscan

Issue 11 November 1990
DP70, "The Alamo"

Issue 10 September 1990
Todd-AO 35 years, CDS, THX

Issue 9 July 1990
M Hayes on 70mm film, Film vaults

Issue 8 April 1990
Iwerks, Imax, Showscan

Issue 7 February 1990
The future of 70mm, Cinerama is back

Issue 6 December 1989
70mm museum?, Grandeur,

Issue 5 September 1989
Mad World restoration, Imax, ARRI 765

Issue 4 July 1989
Letters, Rise of 65/70mm

Issue 3 April 1989
Lawrence soundtrack, Cinerama Dome

Issue 2 February 1989
"Lawrence of Arabia", "It's a Mad....World

Issue 1 December 1988
Kinepolis, Cinespace 70, Cinerama Dome (LA)