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Todd-AO Feature Films, Shorts and Tests

All 70mm film lists
Compiled by: Thomas Hauerslev. Date: +9.07.2024
Title Released Cinema Notes
Oklahoma! 10.10.1955 Rivoli, NYC, USA 30 frames per second
Around the World in 80 Days 17.10.1956 Rivoli, NYC, USA 30 frames per second.

Also filmed in Todd-AO 24 frames per second for 35mm reduction printing.

The 24 fps 65mm negative was used for the 1983, 140 min. short version 70mm re-issue by Warner Bros.
 
"South Pacific" 19.03.1958 Criterion, NYC, USA New DTS 70mm print struck in 2006
“Porgy and Bess”

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“Porgy and Bess”: The North American Roadshow and 70mm Engagements
24.06.1959 Warner, NYC, USA  
“Can-Can” 09.03.1960 Rivoli, NYC, USA  
The Alamo 24.10.1960 Woodlawn, San Antonio, USA 26.10.1960 Rivoli Theatre, New York

27.10.1960 London
 
"Cleopatra" 12.06.1963 Rivoli, NYC, USA New DTS 70mm print struck in 2006
The Sound of Music
 
02.03.1965 Rivoli, NYC, USA New DTS 70mm print struck in 2003
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, or How I flew from London to Paris in 25 hours and 11 minutes
 
03.06.1965 Astoria, London, England, UK
 
New DTS 70mm print struck in 2004
The Agony and the Ecstasy
 
07.10.1965 State, NYC, USA New DTS 70mm print struck in 2005
“Doctor Dolittle” 12.12.1967 Odeon Marble Arch, London, UK
 
New DTS 70mm print struck in 2005
“Star!” 18.07.1968 Dominion, London, UK
 
New DTS 70mm print struck in 2008
Hello, Dolly! 16.12.1969 Rivoli, NYC, USA New DTS 70mm print struck in 2004
“Airport”
 
05.03.1970 Radio City, NYC, USA  
“The Last Valley” 28.01.1971 Rivoli, NYC, USA  
Baraka 04.06.1993 Imperial Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
In CINESPACE 70 by Todd-AO

Todd-AO 65mm (1992).

 
Further in 70mm reading:

Todd-AO Home Page

Todd-AO Concept Tests. June 1953

(S) = Short film

 
 

Todd-AO Short films, Documentary footage and Concept Tests

 
June 1953 Tests
 
23.06.1953
 
Photographed in New York, USA, USA
 
Todd-AO concepts filmed at 20-30 fps. directed by Mike Todd. Cameraman: Schyler Sandford. Photographic equipment was Thomascolor 65mm cameras rebuilt by American Optical Corporation and Mitchell Camera Corporation.

Rollercoaster scene photographed at the Far Rockaway Playland’s “Atom Smasher” coaster (also seen in "This is Cinerama"). The camera faced the people in the rollercoaster, one of which were actress Evelyn Keyes, then-girlfriend of Mike Todd. 
 
More Tests
 
23.07.1953

14.08.1953

 
Photographed in Elicott Creek Park, Buffalo, New York, June 1953

Shown at Regent Theatre, Buffalo, USA
 
Fred Zinnemann and Harry Stradling

30 frames per second

 
More Tests
 
03.08.1953
08.08.1953
 
Photographed in MGM Studios, Culver City
 
Fred Zinnemann and Harry Stradling

30 frames per second
 
More Tests
 
06.09.1953
 
Photographed in Venice, Italy
 
European tour

Todd-AO Concepts directed by
Signor Michael Todd. Cameramen: Harry Stradling & Schyler Sandford

Venice's La Fenice opera house.
Basillica di San Marcos
Canals of Venice.
 
More Tests
 
23.06.1954
 
Photographed in MGM Stage 2, LA, USA
 
30 frames per second
The Miracle of Todd-AO 25.05.1956 Rivoli, NYC, USA 30 frames per second. New DTS 70mm print struck in 2005
The March of Todd-AO 24.12.1958 Rivoli, NYC, USA New DTS 70mm print struck in 2006
"Man in the 5th Dimension" 22.04.1964 World Fair, NYC, USA "Serving as the centerpiece of the Billy Graham Pavilion, a 70-mm wide-screen film called Man in the Fifth Dimension was shown hourly from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. in a special 400-seat theater that offered viewers earphones in a choice of six languages. Each inquirer was counseled afterward in his or her own language."

"So we went ahead, developing a seventy-millimeter wide-screen Todd-AO film entitled Man in the Fifth Dimension. Using spectacular photography to tell the story of God’s creation and His love in Christ, scriptwriter Jim Collier and director Dick Ross put together a presentation of the Gospel that touched thousands of lives."


From billygraham.org
 
The Artist Who Did Not Want To Paint
 
07.10.1965 State, NYC, USA Prologue to "The Agony and the Ecstasy". 13 minutes narrated by Marvin Miller, and directed by Vincenzo Labella. Photographed by Piero Portalupi. Music by Jerry Goldsmith
 
"Circus" 1973 Chicago Steve Kraus [11.12.2018] on Facebook:

"Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry had a theatre as part of their circus exhibit sponsored by Sears [1973]. It was shot in 5/65 turned on its side to showcase aerial wire acts. But projection was not 70; they used 16mm triple frame on a specially adapted Century projector. Film handling was with an endless loop device atop the projector. Sound was 35mm full coat on a dubber in the next room with the film running up and down over many rollers. I don’t recall the track arrangement but there were some holes punched to trigger effects like a strobe in the theatre."
 
CineSpace 70
 
10.08.1987
 
Glen Glenn Sound, Todd-AO, Hollywood, USA
 
CineSpace 70 demonstration. Filmed at 30 frames per second. Launch of new 65mm cameras by Todd-AO. Camera designed by Doug Fries (Fries Engineering, Inc).

• Go to CINESPACE 70 by Todd-AO

Todd-AO introduced its new CineSpace 70 series of cameras at a special meeting of the American Society of Cinematographers on August 10, 1987.
 
Apollo 11
 
24.01.2019
 
Sundance Film Festival, USA
 
"65mm Panavision collection" consist of 61 65mm reels of Apollo 11 footage, out of a collection of 165 reels of 65mm film about the Apollo missions (Apollo 8 - 13) made by NASA for public relations and MGM Studios for the project: "Moon Walk One", MGM Studios and  the story of the NASA Apollo Program.

• Go to Stephen Slater in Conversation
• Go to Apollo program photographed in Todd-AO by NASA
 
“Apollo 11: Quarantine” 29.01.2021 - Apollo 11: Quarantine will feature never-before-seen 70mm footage (Todd-AO) sourced from the National Archives and NASA.
 
 
 
 
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