How The West Was Won (1962) Theatrical Uncut Trailer (4K Cinerama 2.89 Restoration)

[@cliveexton8993]

Beautiful restoration! So well done. Thank you for doing this.

[@MrKylePopovich]

You're welcome. Thank you for the words and stopping by to comment! The whole movie is gorgeous and I hope it will make a theatrical re-release run again one day and we can all truly go back in time!

[@robertwaid3579]

I Can Not or Will Not Say anything More. Than it was a Classic Film which told a Complete 💯 ✅ percent Story about the Settling of Our Western Land's. Thank You.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

This movie is really MEANT to be seen on a curved screen (Or with perspective adjusted "Smilebox" mode). Then you really get the actual visual experience you had in the cinema back then. Cinerama (the one that used 3x 35mm cameras & projectors) really was something else and it really stands out in the history of Motion Picture storytelling :) it's one of the most beautifully shot Hollywood movies ever made.

[@JBarg25]

I got to see a restored version of this trailer in 2010 on the Cinerama screen in Bradford, England. It was something that I'll always treasure. Unfortunately, my time there was about a month before their next screening of this.

[@Philipwaltho]

Yes I have seen this in three panel Cinerama it was mind blowing

[@ThK-mh3iy]

It seems that this a masterpiece. Very big and unforgetable actors are all in action. I am going to watch this movie as soon possible. Thank you for sharing this video.

[@CannonfireVideo]

I've seen this in three-projector Cinerama. I've also seen a normal 'scope reduction print and those ridiculous pan-and-scan TV prints. This is amazing. They managed to scrub away the seams. Most shots look like they were taken with a single camera.

[@MrKylePopovich]

It truly is breath-taking! I would love to hear you talk about that experience. Put up a vlog on your KZbin, I know plenty of people that would be interested in that story. I love scope, and super happy to find another like-minded person! Thanks for stopping by and for the kindness. All the best for now! Will be looking for that vlog!

[@CannonfireVideo]

Don't think I'll be vlogging about films just yet -- I'm writing a book. But I can say this: HTWWW includes many shots originally taken in Ultra-Panavision -- the single-camera 2.8-something-to-1 system invented for "Raintree County." In fact, some shots are straight-out lifted from Raintree. When projected in actual Cinerama, these shots really stick out due to the grain. More importantly, they are also the only shots without Cinerama's usual fish-eye focal length. Thus, they look somehow "flatter" and less immersive compared to the shots taken with three cameras. Although there is definitely something special about watching an actual Cinerama film on a louvered semi-circular screen (from the third row!), in some ways I prefer the newly-available digital reconstructions of CInerama to the thing-in-itself. To understand why, just look at that shot of logs rolling down a ramp into the river. It's in the HTWWW trailer. In Cinerama, that shot looks AWFUL. The three screens just don't match up; the distortion is ugly. The same shot looked particularly terrible in the Panavision reduction prints made in the '60s. But in the digital version now available, the problem is pretty much solved. Digital is magic. Incidentally, my old friend Kurt Wahlner worked on "The Last Days of Cinerama," which I'm sure will be the final movie shot in the process. I haven't spoken with him about it, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the Cinerama shots taken inside the Cinerama Dome theater were his idea. That's the kind of goofy notion he always liked. They say that HTWWW was the better of the two narrative Cinerama films. I wouldn't know; I've yet to see the Brothers Grimm movie. But the sad truth is that HTWWW, though it looks magnificent, falls into the "good but not great" category. The early sequences are more compelling than the later ones. The weakest sequence, sorry to say, is the one directed by John Ford -- it's nothing but talk, Henry Morgan is miscast, and John Wayne isn't at his best.

[@MrKylePopovich]

Can't wait to read your book! And thanks for noting the Ultra Panavision, I was wondering how they accomplished those flatter shots and VFX comps on the water sequences. Very interesting how I'm sure any difference in ground shift would ruin the whole shot, so a floating raft would be a no go. But the front facing shots "lifted" from Raintree look great! So they must have had some sort of tight rig? I'm happy you like this restoration, this is really what digital magic should be used for. Thanks for agreeing, but also I do envy your Cinerama experience, ha! Thanks so much for sharing. Very interested in The Last Days, never heard of that! Your friend sounds like good people. And yes, the cannon sequence and dance sequences are the only good Ford shots, and the rest I was very confused/didn't feel like Ford.

[@hothemeep1219]

"most shots look like they were taken with a single camera" : because they were

[@CannonfireVideo]

@@hothemeep1219 Only a small-ish percentage of the shots were single-camera Ultra-Panavision. They stand out pretty clearly when you see the film projected. The grain is different and the lenses are different.

[@frameriver580]

Love this, great work Kyle!

[@MrKylePopovich]

Thank you so much! Each frame was breathing to work on! And the music, the narration! Just an amazing feeling al around. Happy to give life back into this gem of a trailer. Thanks for stopping by!

[@robertwaid3579]

Watching that Full Trailer for a truely & Absolutely Great Film. All I can add is that up to Two months ago. I had never seen it before. Since on the Movie's original release Date? I was about Four & a Half Year's of age then. The Film is too this Very Day? One of My utmost favorite movies of all time. Thanks Again for Showing & Sharing.

[@AuthenticPrestige]

🐴🐴🐴 I AM ONE OF THE OLD GUYS NOW.........I can still see the HUGE MOVIE THEATER DISPLAY MARQUIS in NEW YORK CITY in Spring 1963. CINERAMA !!! As BIG AS IMAX ONCE WAS. THREE HUGE MOVIE SCREENS IN THE THEATER. We were in 8th Grade in the small town to the south in New Jersey. NEW YORK CITY WAS THE WORLD. OUR ENGLISH PROFESSOR teacher wanted us to see this movie. NOT THE HISTORY TEACHER......THE ENGLISH TEACHER. She was correct. THANK YOU MS. "Z". I never forgot the huge impact it had on me. When the US Army stationed me in NORTHERN CALIFORNIA........I MADE IT MY HOME. 🐴🐴🐴 IT WAS JUST AS INSPIRING THEN AS KEVIN COSTNER'S "HORIZON" IS TODAY. 🏆🏆🏆 AMERICA WAS SITTING THERE........ WAITING TO BE LIVED IN BY US. HAPPY 4TH OF JULY #248 USA. 🗽🗽🗽

[@ThatWelshGuy5]

I'm very envious of the fact that you seen this film way back then it must've been quite an experience!

[@peka__]

Thank you for sharing this. Bless you!

[@Philipwaltho]

Great thank you❤

[@MrKylePopovich]

You're so welcome, thank you, for watching!!

[@Philipwaltho]

Yes I have seen it as well in three strip Cinerama a great American classic

[@AlessioRomaMusic]

Legendary movie! 🎬✨️

[@brijbhushansinghrawat719]

ये बहुत चर्चित मूवी है बार बार देखने लायक क्लिप के लिए शुक्रिया

[@songsmith31a]

I saw this mighty Western epic in its original 3-projector screening at the Cinerama Cinema is London's Soho in the early 1960s, and now have the excellent no lines transfer to DVD. It is reported that HTWWW was the film that inspired Kevin Costner to make his own top-notch Western films.

[@olliebommel1306]

They make no more good movies like this anymore so sad. Good old movies are the best

[@上瀧政彦]

オールスターキャストの大作西部劇ですが、アクション性ばかりでなく、ドラマ性もあったので、内容が面白いと思いました。

[@MrKylePopovich]

Well said! My Ukranian Grandmother (Baba) says good movies need heart / drama!

[@tomkent4656]

Those wide-angle distortions!

[@tompease8810]

Great movie the actors and the storylines a real classic

[@mike9086]

Ben-Hur was not made for the three screen Cinerama - but I'm sure I saw it in such a version long after it's release. Can anyone confirm that?

[@MrKylePopovich]

The Widescreen Museum states: the full 2.76:1 70mm aspect ratio. Ben-Hur's spectacular photography was matched with its extremely vivid 6 channel stereophonic sound. For practical reasons, the film was shown with an aspect ratio of about 2.5:1 in most roadshow houses. So I don't think you saw it in there screens, BUT you might have saw it on large curved screen, and with the 2.5:1 aspect it would certainly have felt like a Cinerama presentation. You would know for sure if you saw a Cinerama presentation. But the Ben Hur in theatres would have been far more impressive a film than how the west was one (aside from the native horseback scenes, nearing to the chariot race in complexity). Hope this helps!

[@martyconroy3786]

​It was 70mm, and Quentin Tarantino found and used that very same camera (Panovision) to film The Hateful 8.

[@martyconroy3786]

Ben Hur came out before Cinerama

[@nr1osfan]

I know it's the old clichee but they don't make them like this anymore. Can you imagine Russel Crowe or any highly priced and hyped up actresses making this movie today????

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

Today it should be even less complicated if they shoot it digitally and syncing each camera and also being able to MOVE the cameras and not having to rely on tripod mounds due to the complicated nature of rigging 3 Filmcameras together to maintain the proper perspective.

[@JBarg25]

In short, they *can't* make them like this anymore.

[@rodrigochequer2191]

2.39:1, known as Anamorphic Widescreen or Scope, is the widest aspect ratio within conventional cinema standards and therefore already has an epic appeal due to its ability to frame large panoramas of a movie's environments. However, what we see here is absurd. This trailer has an aspect ratio of 2.89:1, that's not even epic anymore, it's, I don't know, ultra epic? What an incredibly wide image ratio, there is so much horizontal space to see, it seems unbelievable!!😲😨

[@poilochien]

oh my god ? ? ?

[@MrKylePopovich]

I know?! How did this ever come to be?! What a gem. Thanks for stopping by!

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

Main Theme kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4KzqndmbrCSqpY .

[@blueduck5589]

A more fitting title would be "How the West Was Lost."

[@joeenglert]

what the,,,,why dont they play the music that goes with this movie? the music is better than the movie..sounds like they are playing roy rogers music in this trailer

[@starikstaqor9667]

=5+.