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Todd AO

posted 13 years ago by Sillyhuron
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For a "low budget" movie they sure had great technical credits. This epic was shot in Todd AO - the super widescreen lens system ("Cinerama Outta One Hole" as Mike Todd memorably described it). Sound of Music, Oklahoma,and Patton all used it ,and that's why the opening 5 minutes of the film are brilliant - when we zoom through the gloriously vast wilderness in the helicopter, through giant trees, down a river & clean over a mountaintop. I saw it on my little 2 foot TV & I was blown away!
So why is the rest of the movie so crappy looking?

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[–] Sillyhuron 13 years ago

They switched to 35mm in the 70's when 70MM print demand dropped. (Now they're a sound lab only). The lens was the same, and still famous enough to rate a BIG credit right at the head of the film.

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