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TODD-AO NEWS |
 Robert Hopkins, Inventor of Todd-AO Lens dies
By Sharon Dickman
Robert Hopkins died July 4, he was 94. His lens designs included the Todd-AO lens used to produce high definition, wide aspect-ratio films shot on large format film |
 Garrett
Brown meets Walter Siegmund
By Garrett Brown
Dr. Siegmund was a tall, gray-bearded, Nordic-looking fellow
with a gentle professorial manner. He was completely
film-savvy, in fact had developed Todd-AO. |
 Walter
P. Siegmund, a small bio
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was born in Bremen, Germany in 1925. We left for New York and arrived on
September 13, 1930 and left immediately for Rochester, New York. |
 Walter
Siegmund about Todd-AO
By Thomas Hauerslev
About the early days of Todd-AO when he met Dr. Brian OŽBrien and Mike Todd 15
October 1952. |
 Todd-AO
65mm Test
By Thomas Hauerslev
Wednesday 9 February 1994, review of a very interesting reel of 65mm film
which had been discovered at the Nederlands Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. |
The
Amazing Optical Adventure of Todd-AO
By Jef Hecht |
Hollywood Comes to American Optical Company
By Roy C. Gunter Jr. |
Historical Wide Screen Gathering
By Thomas Hauerslev |
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Todd-AO Product Catalouge |
 Vol
I: DP70, 35mm Baby Bug Eye and EYMO camera,
Vol II: 65mm camera, blimp, Bug Eye
Vol III: Lenses, magazines,
Vol IV: Motors, tripods,
Vol V: Edge numbering machine, synch
Vol VI: Editors, rewind equipment, reels and splicer,
Vol VII: 35mm Baby Bug Eye and EYMO and viewfinders
Vol VIII: Editors, DP70, rewind and splicer,
ENV I: Mark III printer
ENV II: Mark III printer
ENV II: Mark III, AO R & D
Oklahoma! in Todd-AO | Todd-AO | Magna Theatres | Todd-AO Corporation | Philips Collaborated On Projector Design | Todd-AO Projection and Sound |
Six track recording equipment | All-Purpose Sound Reproduction | Rodgers & Hammerstein II | Six track recording equipment |
Cine Aperagon | Magna
Theatre Corporation | Todd-AO
parts |
Todd-AO patent |
Todd-AO People |
First Industry Demonstration |
The Todd-AO Process |
The Regent Theatre in
Buffalo | Reference and
reading |
Todd-AO time table |
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TODD-AO PROCESS HISTORY |
 What is Todd-AO? |
The Todd-AO Corporation press release 1B:
"TODD-AO 70mm film, plus the TODD-AO special camera, plus the TODD-AO newly developed 6 channel high fidelity magnetic sound, plus the TODD-AO "all purpose" 70mm projector and the great arched TODD-AO screen equal the most revolutionary of all screen inventions, with clarity of perspective, detail and color reproduction never before achieved. As a result, with TODD-AO, audience participation now has its fullest and truest expression. Todd-AO is the dream of Michael Todd, plus the technical skills of the American Optical Company whose research staff headed by Dr. Brian O'Brien, jointly succeeded in developing "a motion picture system that would photograph action in a very wide angle....with one camera....on one strip of film....to be projected from a single projector....on a very wide screen....with a quality so perfect that the audience would be part of the action, not just passive spectators."
Dr. Brian O'Brien 1953:
"....with Todd-AO (70mm), audience participation now has its fullest and truest expression".
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 1953 Todd-AO Summary
By Dr. Brian O'Brien |
How
Todd-AO Began
By Brian O'Brien, Jr. |
Distortion - Correcting Printing Process
By Grant Lobban |
The Show of Shows
By John Belton |
 DP70 / Norelco AAII
Todd-AO
Components
Magna Theatre
Corporation, Patents, AO Engineers, Todd-AO articles,
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INTERVIEW AND PEOPLE |
In the Splendour of 70mm
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Grant's Blow-up Blog |
The Lingering Reek of
Smell-O-Vision |
Jan Jacob Kotte
By Anton P Kotte
Mike Todd, Jr.
Interview
By Roy Frumkes
Scent of Mystery |
Working for Mike
Todd
By Glenda Jensen |
 Working for Todd-AO
By Dan Leimeter |
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