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18th Todd-AO Festival 2025
9
-12 October 2025, Schauburg Cinerama, Karlsruhe, Germany

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Written and organized by: Herbert Born (Schauburg Cinerama) and Thomas Hauerslev (in70mm.com)Date: 26.01.2025
Herbert Born, Filmtheater Schauburg welcomes you to the 18th Todd-AO Festival at the Schauburg CINERAMA in October, 2025. Pictures: Thomas Hauerslev

KARLSRUHE, January 2025 / in70mm.com news. We have started planning the 18th instalment of the “Todd-AO 70mm Festival“ to be held in 9-12 October 2025 at the Schauburg Cinerama in Karlsruhe, by Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The 18th Festival is the annual appreciation of 70mm wide film presented on a very wide and curved screen just as Mike Todd envisioned Todd-AO to be in 1952.

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Looking for some stylish, cool and fancy piece of Haute Couture?

Old classics and popular titles, short films, as well as some of the latest releases in the grandest of formats, IN THE SPLENDOUR OF 7OMM.

For four days in October Filmtheater Schauburg celebrates the world of LARGE FORMAT film, by offering a series of epic films in 70mm - the high definition of film formats. The Todd-AO Festival at the Schauburg is about going to the movies in style. Seeing the films at the Schauburg is like seeing the films as they were originally presented - in a big cinema, on a huge curved screen with red curtains. It's all about showmanship and presentation, and very few cinemas today - if any - do it better than the staff of the Schauburg.

Join us and be part of this unique event and share the excitement together with visitors from all around the world - including Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Germany, Denmark, England, Czech Republic, USA, and France - and hopefully many more. Some films are in their original English versions and some "70mm Vintage Classics", are dubbed into German. Due to the age of the prints, some have lost their color and are faded. But they are ORIGINAL premiere 70mm prints from the 1960s. At the Todd-AO Festival we honour 70 years of 70mm projectionist tradition, and present films as they were meant to be presented, on genuine 70MM film, done by real people.

From vintage classic Roadshows to the latest 70mm films - all of which proudly carry trade names of large format motion picture processes. The festival is much more than 70mm films: enjoy Schauburg's famous breakfast buffet and listen to lectures. On Friday night, festival sponsor the local brewery Hoepfner traditionally hosts a ”Hoepfner Get together” with free beers. Included in the ticket is also the 40-48 page full-color printed souvenir program especially made for the Todd-AO Festival. It includes detailed information and pictures of the films shown, as well as an article or two, relevant to the weekend. A treasure to take home and keep. All free of charge and included in the festival ticket.

The Schauburg: one of very few original cinemas still equipped with 70mm projectors. A new Harkness screen was installed in 2015. The screen is 16,15 meters wide along the curve, screen chord is 14 meters, Todd-AO height is 6,4 meters, and the depth of the screen is 3,45 meters. Projection distance is 23,8 meters, radius is 8,8 meters and screen curvature is approximately 105 degrees. The curved screen has both vertical and horizontal moveable masking and covered with a "Cinerama red" curtain.

• "in 70mm" is unlike anything you have ever seen - a High Definition movie experience with extremely sharp images and crystal clear 6 track stereo.
• "in 70mm" is a very realistic illusion of reality with an almost three dimensional immersive quality.

Don't take our word for it, read what the film makers have to say, or come and see for yourself. All 70mm films will be projected by vintage and historically correct Philips DP70 and DP75 projectors. Magnetic sound reproduction by SCS preamplifiers, sound format dependent noise reduction by Dolby A/SR circuits. Auditorium sound presentation by state of the art Alcon speakers.

"No expenses are spared to give you the very best experience.", says Herbert Born, and he continues: "It is a Harkness Perlux 140 with a 1,4 gain which helps to reduce the cross reflections of the deeply curved Cinerama screen at the Schauburg.

"70mm still excites me because it is still something very special. It really looks good if you see it on the big curved screen. It is something rare, not everyday business. It is truly special; it looks very good."

Herbert Born & Thomas Hauerslev
Filmtheater Schauburg
 

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