19th Todd-AO Festival 2026 | Read more at in70mm.com The 70mm Newsletter |
| Written and organized by: Saskia Fleischhauer & Herbert Born (Filmtheater Schauburg) and Thomas Hauerslev (in70mm.com) | Date: 09.07.2026 |
 Herbert Born, Filmtheater Schauburg welcomes you to the 18th Todd-AO Festival at the Schauburg CINERAMA in October, 2026. Pictures: Thomas HauerslevKARLSRUHE, July 2026 / in70mm.com news. We have started planning the 19th instalment of the “Todd-AO 70mm Festival“ to be held in 9-11 October 2026 at the Schauburg Cinerama in Karlsruhe, by Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The 19th 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. Program 9. October 2026 - Program 10. October 2026 - Program 11. October 2026 - Ticket Links: • Festivalpass October 9. – 11th ALL DAYS • Festivalpass Friday, October 9th • Festivalpass Saturday, October 10th • Festivalpass Sunday, Oktober 11th • Schauburg Festivalpages 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 three 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. | More in 70mm reading: Todd-AO Festival Home • Welcome • Todd-AO Festival Flyer | Todd-AO Festival Plakat • Introduction | Festival Images Festival Archives • Festival Through the Years • Festival Schedule and Archive • More Schauburg Cinerama Festivals in Pictures • Schauburg Cinerama • Best of Todd-AO Festival • Guests | Billboards | Posters Internet link: • Schauburg.de Ticket Links 2026: • Festivalpass October 9. – 11th ALL DAYS • Festivalpass Friday, October 9th • Festivalpass Saturday, October 10th • Festivalpass Sunday, Oktober 11th • Schauburg Festivalpages Filmtheater Schauburg Att: Herbert Born Marienstraße 16 76137 Karlsruhe Germany in70mm.com News Peripheral Vision, Scopes, Dimensions and Panoramas in70mm.com's Library Presented on the big screen in 7OMM 7OMM and Cinema Across the World Now showing in 70mm in a theatre near you! 70mm Retro - Festivals and Screenings |
 Festival organizers Saskia Fleischhauer & Herbert Born, Filmtheater Schauburg, Foto: Thomas HauerslevFrom 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.
Herbert Born & Thomas Hauerslev | |
Film Details | |
Todd-AO Festival Friday 9. October 2026 | |
Todd-AO Festival Saturday 10. October 2026 | |
Todd-AO Festival Sunday 11. October 2026 | |
Special Thanks Goes To | |
 The Todd-AO 70mm Festival is generously supported by the Georg Fricker Stiftung
| • How Georg Fricker became the owner and operator of the last of Karlsruhe’s “picture palaces”. • Wie Georg Fricker übernahm Karlsruhes letzten Kinopalast |
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