Re: 2001: A Space Odyssey

Agent_C <Agent-C-hates-s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> True Cinerama was 3 camera / 3 projector, so  I can hardly imagine how
> a 'true' Cinerama presentation could be derived from a Super
> Panavision negative;

65mm "one hole" principal photography could be
optically printed to 3-strip 35mm legacy Cinerama.
I don't know that 2001 ever was. When I saw it at the
Boston Cinerama hall, it was single-strip 70mm.

> .. and if so, what distinguishes it from simply
> being Cinemascope?

65/70mm 5perf vs. 35mm 4perf.

By the time of 2001, what the Cinerama branding
stood for had morphed. All the productions I ever
saw at the Boston hall were 70mm.  The 3-strip 35mm
format was very limiting during staging and photography,
and a major pain to exhibit (a film break required splicing
out one or more frames on all 3 strips to keep them
in sync, for example).

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