FYI

I just got off the phone talking with a weak but stable John
Harvey. Thursday he had a minor stroke and his wife (Donna) took him
to near-by Sycamore Hospital (937) 866-0551. He's able to talk on the
phone and is being treated for high blood pressure. He does not know
when he will be released but is in stable, but watched condition. Not
good news for Christmas but being his friends I thought you would want
to know.

Glad he's on the mend and it wasn't worse. I didn't know he had a wife. I
thought the story was that the wife gave him an ultimatum: Her or Cinerama
and Cinerama won!

John swears that his divorce had nothing to do with Cinerama. Yeah,
sure. John remarried about six years ago to a very attractive young
lady who, obviously, must be quite understanding.

Martin Hart <see-address@website.listed.below.org> wrote:
John swears that his divorce had nothing to do with Cinerama. Yeah,
sure. John remarried about six years ago to a very attractive young
lady who, obviously, must be quite understanding.

Another Cinerama legend bites the dust. Next you'll tell me that there
was
no 3-panel version of 2001.

Martin Hart <see-address@website.listed.below.org> wrote:
John swears that his divorce had nothing to do with Cinerama. Yeah,
sure. John remarried about six years ago to a very attractive young
lady who, obviously, must be quite understanding.

Another Cinerama legend bites the dust. Next you'll tell me that there
was
no 3-panel version of 2001.

Everyone knows that Cinerama stopped 3-panel productions after Grand
Prix.....

...because the Boston Watch and Ward society didn't speak French and
banned the film because they thought it would be displaying a
seventy-foot-long...

You are thinking of the one that was filmed in 3-D!!!
LOL
G.

"Giovanni Abrate" <tryphon@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:<5SsHb.2624$zC4.3018017@news2.news.adelphia.net>...
You are thinking of the one that was filmed in 3-D!!!
LOL
G.

Actually there was a 3-D version of Krakatoa - East and West of Java.
When they were unable to locate a screen large enough to show the
eruption full size they optically printed the East version onto 63mm
film and combined the 40 optical soundtracks to 3 magnetic and ran it
on a 16mm projector alongside the main projector. The resulting movie
which was shotened by almost 2 1/2 hours from the original shows what
happens when Alan Smithee gains control of a production. Curent
information is that there is no film version of the production
available due to poor storage conditions and the entire film has
become nitrous oxide. That is fitting since the film from title to
demise was eminently laughable

I thought that 2001 was the first Cinerama film in four panel, and that was
why it had that annoying join line right in the middle. Also, I thought that
the sound was four track optical phantasound.

Jim Nason wrote:

I thought that 2001 was the first Cinerama film in four panel, and that was
why it had that annoying join line right in the middle. Also, I thought that
the sound was four track optical phantasound.

As God is my witness, I knew a girl in college (in graduate film school no
less!) who claimed her father was some film industry genius and they knew
for a fact that Kubrick had his own special 140mm print of 2001.

Honest.

Happy Holidaze -

As God is my witness, I knew a girl in college (in graduate film
school no less!) who claimed her father was some film industry genius
and they knew for a fact that Kubrick had his own special 140mm print
of 2001.

BTW people, saw "Cold Mountain" yesterday.

Beautiful photography,
though a bit grainy and apparently shot in Super35.

The three main actors (whose salaries comprised almost half the movie's
$80M-plus budget [15 each for Kidman and Zellwegger, 10 for Law]) were
simply wasted.