“Almost like a real web site”
 

IN7OMM.COM
Search | Contact
News | e-News
Rumour Mill | Stories
Foreign Language
Auf Deutsch

WHAT'S ON IN 7OMM?

7OMM FESTIVAL
Karlsruhe | Gentofte
Krnov | Varnsdorf
Banská Bystrica
Oslo | Bradford

TODD-AO PROCESS
Films | Premiere
People | Equipment
Library | Cinemas
Distortion Correcting
DP70 / AAII Projector
 

VISION, SCOPE & RAMA
1926 Natural Vision
1929 Grandeur
1930 Magnifilm
1930 Realife
1930 Vitascope
1952 Cinerama
1953 CinemaScope
1953 Panavison
1954 VistaVision
1955 Todd-AO
1955 Circle Vision 360
1956 CinemaScope 55
1957 Ultra Panavision 70
1958 Cinemiracle
1958 Kinopanorama
1959 Super Panavision 70
1959 Super Technirama 70
1960 Smell-O-Vision
1961 Sovscope 70
1962
Cinerama 360
1962 MCS-70
1963 70mm Blow Up
1963 Circarama
1963 Circlorama
1966 Dimension 150
1966
Stereo-70
1967 DEFA 70
1967 Pik-A-Movie
1970 IMAX / Omnimax
1974 Cinema 180
1974 SENSURROUND
1976 Dolby Stereo
1984 Showscan
1984 Swissorama
1986 iWERKS
1989 ARRI 765
1990 CDS
1994 DTS / Datasat
2001 Super Dimension 70
2018 Magellan 65

Various Large format | 70mm to 3-strip | 3-strip to 70mm | Specialty Large Format | Special Effects in 65mm | ARC-120 | Early Large Format
7OMM Premiere in Chronological Order

7OMM ON EARTH

Australia | Brazil | Canada | China | Denmark | England | France | Germany | Holland | India | Iran | Israel | Ireland | Mexico | Norway | Poland |  Russia | Spain | Sweden | Turkey | USA |

LIBRARY
7OMM Projectors
People | Eulogy
65mm/70mm Workshop
The 7OMM Newsletter
Back issue | PDF
Academy of the WSW

7OMM NEWS
• 2026 | 2025 | 2024
2023 | 2022 | 2021
2020 | 2019 | 2018
2017 | 2016 | 2015
2014 | 2013 | 2012
2011 | 2010 | 2009
2008 | 2007 | 2006
2005 | 2004 | 2003
2002 | 2001 | 2000
1999 | 1998 | 1997
1996 | 1995 | 1994
 

in70mm.com Mission:
• To record the history of the large format movies and the 70mm cinemas as remembered by the people who worked with the films. Both during making and during running the films in projection rooms and as the audience, looking at the curved screen.
in70mm.com, a unique internet based magazine, with articles about 70mm cinemas, 70mm people, 70mm films, 70mm sound, 70mm film credits, 70mm history and 70mm technology. Readers and fans of 70mm are always welcome to contribute.

Disclaimer | Updates
Support us | Staff
Testimonials
Table of Content
 

 
 
Extracts and longer parts of in70mm.com may be reprinted with the written permission from the editor.
Copyright © 1800 - 2070. All rights reserved.

Visit biografmuseet.dk about Danish cinemas

 

Douglas Trumbull's "Silent Running" screens in Bradford

Read more at
in70mm.com
The 70mm Newsletter
Written by: Lisa Brook, Widescreen Weekend Coordinator Date: 03.10.2015
We are pleased to announce a last minute addition to our festival schedule at 2pm on Saturday 17th October. This is of course included in your Festival Pass and many thanks go to Douglas Trumbull for arranging this with us at short notice. This is in replacement of Leslie Caron’s Screen Talk. "Gigi" will screen at 16:15 as mentioned in our previous update.

SILENT RUNNING (PG) presented by DOUGLAS TRUMBULL
Dir. Douglas Trumbull USA 1972 89 min
Original Format: 35mm 1.85:1
Projection Format: DCP 1.85:1 Flat Screen
Cast: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, John Rifkin, Jesse Vint
Film source: Universal
Saturday 17 October at 2pm

As a very special addition to
Widescreen Weekend 2015 our keynote guest Douglas Trumbull presents his directorial sci-fi masterpiece "Silent Running", offering an in-depth introduction to this much loved classic. In a future where Earth’s vegetation is extinct the last examples of plant life are cultivated in eco-domes aboard vast space craft Valley Forge. When an order comes to abandon the project botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dearn) dramatically intervenes to save his beloved plants from destruction. Accompanied by the now famous (and highly influential) robot drones Lowell embarks on a lonely and perilous voyage into the unknown. A contemplative and haunting story of a man faced with an awesome decision, Silent Running has come to be regarded as a key film in the Sci-Fi genre, with deep space effects as impressive as those in "2OO1: A Space Odyssey".

Editors note: "Silent Running" was screened in 70mm in: Sweden, London and Mexico (maybe more places)
 
More in 70mm reading:

Widescreen Weekend, Bradford, England

Doug Trumbull Gets an OSCAR

Douglas Trumbull - A Conversation

70mm, Cinerama and Cinemiracle shown in Sweden

70mm Film Presentations in London, England 1958 - 2014

Curiosities from Mexico

Internet link:

National Media Museum
01274 203006
nationalmediamuseum.org.uk

 

The beginning of "Silent Running"

 
Wolfram Hannemann and Douglas Trumbull in conversation, 2012, Germany

Wolfram Hannemann: Let’s talk about "Silent Running". Your first job as a Director – how did the project come about?

Douglas Trumbull: Well, it came about through some relationships I had with friends at the Studios, and agents; and there was a very interesting moment that happened at Universal where this movie called "Easy Rider" came out. "Easy Rider" surprised everybody – it was a very profitable, low-budget independent film that no-one understood. The Studios just didn’t have any idea how to do this. So they decided to experiment with five or more films – one-million-dollar independent films. I can’t remember all the other films, but there was a Kurt Vonnegut film you probably remember, then there was "The Last Picture Show", there was "Silent Running"...I can’t remember the others. But anyway, the whole objective was that the Studio would experiment with making five or more one-million-dollar movies, and not have anything to do with them – they would put up the money but they wouldn’t see the script, they wouldn’t have Final Cut, they wouldn’t do anything.

So I had this amazing experience on "Silent Running" where I got complete control, as long as I stayed within budget. So it was a really great experience; it was a very simple movie, it was a very low budget movie, it was made with a very small crew, and shot in 32 days. Shot on board this aircraft carrier, airplane hangar, with a lot of miniatures – I kind of learned how to direct during the making of that movie.

Read full Douglas Trumbull conversation
 
 
   
Go: back - top - back issues - news index
Updated 28-07-24