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Author Topic: 70MM print listing Michael Cornish Film Handler Posts: 26 From: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Registered: Sep 2011 posted 02-21-2014 08:11 PM                     Does anyone the best way of getting a list of both 70MM 6 track prints are still floating around?  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 02-21-2014 09:48 PM                        In addition to Michael's question, has some 70mm prints find their way into the hands of private film collectors.? If there are large format film collectors, do they have a full 70mm projection and six track sound set ups in their homes? -Claude  |  IP: Logged Jock Blakley Expert Film Handler Posts: 218 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: Oct 2011 posted 02-22-2014 01:42 AM                     I can provide a list for Australia. It's unfortunately really quite short  |  IP: Logged Sean Weitzel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall) Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-23-2014 03:27 PM                     Claude, quite simply, yes, and yes.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-23-2014 04:43 PM                     Brad Miller certainly has a 70mm screening room in his house. I don't know how many prints he has or has access to though.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-23-2014 04:50 PM                        The crucial phrase here is "floating around". I'm guessing that it would be possible, in theory, to compile a list of 70mm prints that are available for screening venues to rent in any given country. However, there are lots of qualifiers and variables. Many of the major non-profit archives will only let their prints out to venues that they know and trust. Those venues also have to clear the rights separately (i.e. pay the studio their booking fee and the archive a print rental fee). Prints in studios and private collections are often circulated on a similar basis. The prints out there range from those that pretty much any venue can book just by asking for them, to those which are only released for playing when an established relationship exists between the venue and the print's owner. Furthermore, this situation is changing all the time, as existing prints are discovered to be unusable (lost to VS, in most cases) and the occasional new one is struck. What might be useful is a "70mm wiki" type site with a page for each title, on which anyone can post information they have about print availability. That would get round the problem of the site owner having to do all the work to keep the data current. In fact, there's no reason to restrict that to 70mm prints: as 35mm availability declines, such a site could potentially be useful both to the custodians of prints and to venues which want to play them.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Hauerslev Master Film Handler Posts: 451 From: Copenhagen, Denmark Registered: Aug 2000 posted 02-24-2014 09:00 AM                        Yes, there are lists. At least I have compiled my own lists over the years after being involved with 70mm festivals since the late 1990s. You can get a good impression of what is available from reading the festival programs in various places here: http://www.in70mm.com/library/festival/index.htm  |  IP: Logged David Kilderry Master Film Handler Posts: 355 From: Melbourne Australia Registered: Sep 1999 posted 03-11-2014 05:58 AM                        70mm in private hands was not as rare as you'd think, not many had home facilities to run it however. Even though I had 70mm at home I mostly ran it at work.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-22-2014 05:05 PM                      |  IP: Logged

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