Oklahoma! 1955 'Kansas city' presented in Ultra-Curve

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@ceebee23 Жыл бұрын

Fabulous...and on the curved screen the optical distortions of presenting it flat disappear... it must be amazing in the cinema!

@robertgraziano 6 ай бұрын

Saw this as a kid at the Tivoli in Toronto in huge Todd-AO...starting my love for movies.

@kedemberger8773 4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely amazing. I have both Cinemascope and Todd-AO versions on blu-ray (only 1080) and the restored Todd-AO version is one of the finest film representations I've ever seen. Thank you for the curve simulation.

@Jimbo.05 4 жыл бұрын

Agree, as a classic film buff, the 30fps Todd-AO bluray version of "Oklahoma!" is just breathtaking. Full credit to the people who restored it, job well done. The film looks like it could've been made yesterday!.

@Jimbo.05 4 жыл бұрын

@Robert Helix Robert, when I purchased the Rodgers and Hammerstein bluray collection here in Australia, the only version included for "Oklahoma!" was the TODD-AO 30fps version. It is just incredible. Those who also have the Cinemascope version all agree wholeheartedly that the TODD-AO blows the other one away with the depth of colour and realism. No you won't get the simulated curve screen - just a one off gimmick. It would be great if it was also available, similar to the "Smilebox" presentation of "How the West Was Won". Cheers...

@brucer9572 4 жыл бұрын

He jumps off the train onto his horse. Now that is just too cool.

@tamolyn5141 3 жыл бұрын

@Bruce R Actually stuntman/actor, Ben Johnson (who is also the cowboy who brings Will Parker's horse to the train depot), did the jump from the train to the horse. Most actors aren't trained as stuntpersons, and a dangerous stunt like this one required a stuntman, some of the crazy things Gene Nelson had previously done as a dancer notwithstanding.

@nicholas790 4 жыл бұрын

It was called Cinerama and used a deeply curved screen and three projectors running at the same time with many tracks of sound! (more than 5.1!) Todd AO was another big screen format developed by Mike Todd, with much higher resolution than even 35mm and digital films made today! These formats (along with 70mm were eventually dropped by the studios to reduce costs but they were much much better! There is another Cinerama simulator called "Smilebox" that is being used to restore all the Cinerama productions. It looks great and even ITunes is now offering a few of those titles.

@GJF118 4 жыл бұрын

I have been collecting the Smilebox Cinerama films; the simulation is uncanny. I only recently learned that TODD-AO was intended to be projected on a similar screen and immediately wondered if someone, somewhere was going to release this version of Oklahoma! similarly modified. You've gotten my hopes up: will the entire film be issued on Blu-Ray (or 4K)?????

@jochenstossberg5427 3 жыл бұрын

You are wrong here sorry. Todd-AO was an entirely different process to Cinerama. Todd - AO was a huge, single screen process that looks like this, but obviously, because it was 70mm way, way better. Cinerama in it's original process had the three strips, Todd-AO did not, and was a far superior image frankly, because there were no 'fuzzy' lines. The original deep curve was extraordinary simply because with a deep curve you would expect distortion on the sides. The Todd-AO projection system technically corrected it as the film ran though the projector. This is fun because you get the whole picture - but it's nothing like the real thing. I screened this film and South Pacific for two years, in Sydney, so I know my stuff. You are right on one point though, the 70mm Todd-AO razor sharp image, was infinitely better than Imax. The reason why the process was eventually dropped was simple. Fox, who owned the process, had to convert the cinema's to screen these huge screen films, and they didn't have enough product to sustain the use of the massive screen, and screening regular films was impossible because the curve of the screen was so great. So you got a seriously distorted picture. Fox expected all these films to be as successful as South Pacific and have massive runs. But this was followed with Can-Can, The Last Valley and a number of flops. So they flattened out the screen, which was still a beautiful image, but nothing like the immersive quality of the real thing. The last smash they had was The Sound of Music - but it wasn't screened in the deep curve. This film and South Pacific were the only two films that were actually screened in the real process, sadly. Because there has never been anything better in my opinion. Smilebox, I might add looks nothing like the real thing. How could it when the original screen wrapped around the entire front of the auditoreum. One wall to the other! Cheers!

@jagdtiger9287 Жыл бұрын

@@jochenstossberg5427 Cinerama also used ultra panavision photographed on 65mm...the picture is amazing...at one time Cinerama was thinking about filming with three cameras in ultra panavision with 65mm and projecting back onto the screen with three projectors...would have been one huge screen. Todd-AO also switched to super panavision later on.

@jagdtiger9287 Жыл бұрын

@@jochenstossberg5427Todd-AO curved in more than Cinerama did.

@jochenstossberg5427 2 жыл бұрын

This is fun because it's exactly what audiences saw on the screen - BUT - it's nothing like the sensation you had watching TODD-AO, unfortunately. Some installations were much better than others, too, because they depended on the design of the auditoreum. The sensation, when the screen opened up was very similar to the one you get the moment you put your 3d glasses on, but this was without glasses. The clarity of the image was startling, and the sensation that the characters on the screen were coming right at you, with no distortions, or very minor distortions, as the screen curved, was nothing short of stunning. This was the reason that these road show presentations in original Todd-AO process ran literally, for years. South Pacific did four years solid in London, two sessions a day. Audiences simply went again and again. It was an event to watch, and way better than Cinerama - which was an entirely different process - because although the screen was massive, it was more intimate somehow. The utter joy of screening this process way back then was unique. You could actually hear the audience's reaction from the projection room when the curtain swept back, 'WOWWWW!!!!' Seriously awesome guys. Long time ago now, but never forgotten. Then some genius decided to flatten the curve, to accomodate different 70mm processes. Gone forever.

@robertgraziano 2 жыл бұрын

Saw it at the Tivoli in Toronto in Todd-AO and it was great!