Restored "The Searchers" in 70mm (2 Viewers)

[Music lover10]

TCM Film Festival is screening a restored print of Ford's The Searchers in 70mm. It was shot in VistaVision. I'm sure a few here can explain why this would be an optimal theatrical viewing experience. Or is it? Is this blown up from 35mm negative?

Thanks

Craig

 

[JoeDoakes]

Hope this presages 4k

 

[Robert Harris]

TCM Film Festival is screening a restored print of Ford's The Searchers in 70mm. It was shot in VistaVision. I'm sure a few here can explain why this would be an optimal theatrical viewing experience. Or is it? Is this blown up from 35mm negative?

Thanks

Craig

It is not optimal, since the printing negative would be derived from data files. The optimal screening would be 4k w/o any intermediary steps.

I bet it will look great on the screen at the Chinese.

Very nice sizzle however, and presumably a great archival pre-print asset.

If I were creating a film-out, it would be 35/8.

 

[RICK BOND]

I Hope WB releases it in 4K UHD this year. It should look Magnificent. One of John Ford's Best ! https://www.thewrap.com/the-searchers-restoration-2024-tcm-classic-film-festival/

 

[Music lover10]

Thanks for responding. My thoughts exactly about 35/8 being optimal.

Screening is at The Egyptian. Being advertised on the TCM site as

WORLD PREMIERE RESTORATION COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. CLASSICS​

Restored by Warner Bros. in collaboration with The Film Foundation.

d. John Ford, 119m, 70mm

Only details of which I could glean. So it's confusing to say the least.

 

[mark brown]

Is the camera negative not available?

 

[Robert Harris]

Is the camera negative not available?

OCN is available, but may have -Y.

 

[Robert Harris]

Thanks for responding. My thoughts exactly about 35/8 being optimal.

Screening is at The Egyptian. Being advertised on the TCM site as

WORLD PREMIERE RESTORATION COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. CLASSICS​

Restored by Warner Bros. in collaboration with The Film Foundation.

d. John Ford, 119m, 70mm

Only details of which I could glean. So it's confusing to say the least.

What precisely was the Film Foundation’s collaboration?

 

[Music lover10]

No idea about Film Foundation’s involvement. I pasted from the TCM festival schedule page on line.

 

[OliverK]

It is not optimal, since the printing negative would be derived from data files. The optimal screening would be 4k w/o any intermediary steps.

I bet it will look great on the screen at the Chinese.

Very nice sizzle however, and presumably a great archival pre-print asset.

If I were creating a film-out, it would be 35/8.

Once it is digital a movie may as well stay that way but then it is nice to get some 70mm prints from time to time that are not from Lawrence or 2001!

35/8 is kind of cool but not sure where to find the movie theater with a projector to screen it for a larger audience.

 

[Robert Crawford]

What precisely was the Film Foundation’s collaboration?

Perhaps some funding because the following Warner films they listed as being part of their Preserved/Restored Films program. The information was copied and pasted directly from The Film Foundation's website:

WARNER BROS.

• ACT OF VIOLENCE
• BODY SNATCHER, THE
• DEVIL'S DOORWAY, THE
• EAST OF EDEN
• FRIENDLY PERSUASION
• GIANT
• HELEN OF TROY
• LAND OF THE PHARAOHS
• LION IS IN THE STREETS, A
• MAN I LOVE, THE
• MR. & MRS. SMITH
• NORTH BY NORTHWEST
• NUN'S STORY, THE
• ONE WAY PASSAGE
• RACHEL, RACHEL
• RIO BRAVO
• SAFE IN HELL
• SEARCHERS, THE
• SHINING HOUR, THE
• STORM WARNING
• STRAWBERRY BLONDE, THE

Preserved/Restored Films - The Film Foundation

 

[haineshisway]

Hopefully, someone who understands color took part in this restoration.

 

[mark brown]

Has anyone reported how the finished product looks?

 

[Robert Crawford]

Has anyone reported how the finished product looks?

The screening is later this week.

 

[Robert Harris]

Once it is digital a movie may as well stay that way but then it is nice to get some 70mm prints from time to time that are not from Lawrence or 2001!

35/8 is kind of cool but not sure where to find the movie theater with a projector to screen it for a larger audience.

You won’t. Last time I saw 35/8 screened was at my office.

 

[Robert Harris]

Perhaps some funding because the following Warner films they listed as being part of their Preserved/Restored Films program. The information was copied and pasted directly from The Film Foundation's website:

WARNER BROS.

• ACT OF VIOLENCE
• BODY SNATCHER, THE
• DEVIL'S DOORWAY, THE
• EAST OF EDEN
• FRIENDLY PERSUASION
• GIANT
• HELEN OF TROY
• LAND OF THE PHARAOHS
• LION IS IN THE STREETS, A
• MAN I LOVE, THE
• MR. & MRS. SMITH
• NORTH BY NORTHWEST
• NUN'S STORY, THE
• ONE WAY PASSAGE
• RACHEL, RACHEL
• RIO BRAVO
• SAFE IN HELL
• SEARCHERS, THE
• SHINING HOUR, THE
• STORM WARNING
• STRAWBERRY BLONDE, THE

Preserved/Restored Films - The Film Foundation

Do you honestly believe that? Why not add Oppenheimer and Barbie?

 

[Robert Crawford]

Do you honestly believe that? Why not add Oppenheimer and Barbie?

Leave us mere mortals out of your possible misinformation beef and tell it to Martin Scorsese and the Film Foundation’s board of directors.

 

[OliverK]

You won’t. Last time I saw 35/8 screened was at my office.

Was that Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot?

I know a cinema technician who considered getting a 35/8 projector for many years but he could not find anything to use it with as even faded 35/8 prints are extremely rare and so he dropped the idea.

 

[Robin9]

Perhaps some funding because the following Warner films they listed as being part of their Preserved/Restored Films program. The information was copied and pasted directly from The Film Foundation's website:

WARNER BROS.

• ACT OF VIOLENCE
• BODY SNATCHER, THE
• DEVIL'S DOORWAY, THE
• EAST OF EDEN
• FRIENDLY PERSUASION
• GIANT
• HELEN OF TROY
• LAND OF THE PHARAOHS
• LION IS IN THE STREETS, A
• MAN I LOVE, THE
• MR. & MRS. SMITH
• NORTH BY NORTHWEST
• NUN'S STORY, THE
• ONE WAY PASSAGE
• RACHEL, RACHEL
• RIO BRAVO
• SAFE IN HELL
• SEARCHERS, THE
• SHINING HOUR, THE
• STORM WARNING
• STRAWBERRY BLONDE, THE

Preserved/Restored Films - The Film Foundation

Wow! The Man I Love. The DVD-R is poor but the film is good so I'd love that movie to be restored and preserved.

 

[Robert Harris]

Was that Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot?

I know a cinema technician who considered getting a 35/8 projector for many years but he could not find anything to use it with as even faded 35/8 prints are extremely rare and so he dropped the idea.

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