Ziegfeld Theatre
141 W. 54th Street,
New York,
NY
10019
141 W. 54th Street,
New York,
NY
10019
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Yes, LA has all the 70MM fun. The select 70MM houses that get these special prints run reel-to-reel. They also have a great track recond with the studios on how they handle their special prints. The Ziegfeld does have magnetic capabilities. One problem with theatre chains is why should they invest in equipment to run 70MM prints, when the studio do not release them as regular releases. In the last few years many of the area theatres have removed their 70MM equipment.
Any print of BYE BYE BIRDIE would be fun!
70 mm prints of “Star!” , “Sweet Charity” and “Bye Bye Birdie” would be fun! Also “Hawaii” would be fantastic!
Craig,
Will there be a classics series in between Saturday Night Fever and Blade Runner?
Are all of these new prints in 70mm using DTS sound, or are there still existing prints floating around that are magnetic? I don’t believe the Ziegfeld has magnetic capabilities, and I think the DTS is only on the one projector that uses the platter. It seems the Ziegfeld would have to make some commitments to new equipment if they want to get off the 70mm platter.
I think that’s why LA has “all the 70mm fun”, their 70mm houses run reel-to-reel.
Again, MAKE IT HAPPEN!
I agree with Ed and Jeff: “Mad Mad World” looks incredible in 70mm and it’d be a knockout at the Ziegfeld. There are also new 70mm prints of “Cleopatra” and “Ryan’s Daughter” (still the Ziegfeld’s longest-running original engagement) that were shown in L.A. a few years ago.
Why should L.A. have all the 70mm fun? New York’s got the Ziegfeld!
A 70mm print of Mad World would bring me into the city! But you have to show it on a weekend evening (Fri or Sat) for it to be convenient to get to.
The Claremont in Montclair is showing Mad World in a few weeks, but it’s a 35mm print, and probably on a small screen. I’d love to see this on the Ziegfeld’s screen with a large audience!
Make it happen!
How can advance tickets for P&B be ordered?
I hope to make it down for “Blade Runner.” How about that “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World” 70mm print that was shown last year out west? I wonder if the folks (like myself) who would be interested in attending such a festival wouldn’t be more interested in securing grade A 70mm prints than they would in the actual titles being shown. I know it sounds a bit silly, but I’d almost rather see a pristine 70mm print of “Far and Away” than a badly beat-up 70mm print of “2001: A Space Oddyssey.” And I don’t think you’d get your hands on many quality 70mm prints if the film is to be run on a platter.
I wonder if it wouldn’t be worth pursuing the possibility of a venture between the Ziegfeld and a studio that might be interested in striking new 70mm prints to celebrate the classics in its library. Sort of like what Warner Brothers did at Radio City Music Hall a few years back.
Hi Ed,
Yes, we would love to do a 70mm film fest. Come up with some film selections for us and we will see if we can work it out.
We have Porgy and Bess coming up on 9/26 & 9/27 and Blade Runner on 10/5. Plus we are showing a live Mets Game next Wednesday…
Thanks for all of your support
Craig
I think the PG-rated version of SNF was released in 1978 to capitalize on the soundtrack’s popularity with a younger audience than would have normally been permitted to see the original R-rated cut. If I’m not mistaken, the PG version was later re-released as a late-run double feature with “Grease” sometime in late ‘78 or '79. Maybe even later than that.
Craig… any word on another run at the classic series later this year or perhaps when the winter doldrums hit next February? And will management ever consider at least a temporary abandonment of the platter system in order to accommodate a possible 70mm festival???
I like that version better than the toned down PG version, which Paramount rereleased in 1979 following the success of another John Travolta movie that the studio released, Grease, the year before. Paramount decided to tone down SNF’s sex, violence, and language for family audiences while keeping the classic music, but it didn’t catch on to die hard fans the way the original did when it was rated R.
Hi All,
Dirty Dancing is a new, remastered print.
Saturday Night Fever is also a new, remastered print. Clearview is running the original Rated R version.
Craig O'Connor
Michael Coate is no longer associated with FromScripttoDVD, I understand. However, I’ll pass your note re “Sat Nite Fever” to him.
If memory serves, when we opened “Saturday Night Fever” in Hawaii it was R rated. A PG-13 version followed a bit later. Perhaps Michael Coate or someone remembers the history between these two versions.
I assume the Ziegfeld will present the more family friendly
PG-13 version,I have not seen the R version around in years.
“Dirty Dancing” has some history in my life because it was the last time I ran a movie reel-to-reel. I had just finished my run working at the D-150 in Woodbury, Long Island.
I saw what was advertised as a “new Print” of “Mahogany” at Clearviews Chelsea today. It is playing a week engagement. New Print? I do not think so. The sound was tinny and most of the film had several annoying black lines through it!
to be more exact, it looks like one week of Dirty Dancing, then one week of Saturday Night Fever.
It certainly was! At the Philly Boyd the image was every bit as wide as the Cinerama projections, though of lesser height. Same for the NY Loew’s State, and I would certainly think the Hollywood Egyptian. Articles in “Variety” and other trades in late 1959 listed the engagements which utilized the anamorphic lenses,
Deester, why do you think Ben Hur was “never” actually shown as wide as 2.7? This website seems to state that in Germany, Ben Hur will be presented in October in 2.76 aspect ratio
http://www.in70mm.com/festival/2007/index.htm
I also seem to recall reading that in certain roadship presentations it was indeed originally so presented?
BEN-HUR was exhibited as a Roasdhow in amamorphic 70mm to get the extra picture width.
I believe it was the addition of the sound track that shaved some width off the ‘scope image.
Some 70mm films were actually wide than the original Cinerama. Ben-Hur could be exhibited at 2.7:1 (although it never was actually shown that wide), and even the original Cinemascope AR was 2.55:1, very close to Cinerama’s 2.6:1.
I’m SO excited about Porgy and Bess!
People think that 70mm means the screen image will be extra wide, rather that the film itself is 70mm wide and thus the picture on the (usual-sized widescreen) will be sharper and clearer.
…which is what I tried to get printed after the review came out.
The implication in that newspaper review was that we were not being completly honest in the presentation of the new version.
In retrospect, I suppose we could have been more specific in the advertising, even though it was advertised as a 70mm presentaion and not the original three strip. In the 70s, furthur clarification just did not seem as neccesary as it certainly would be, for example at the Ziegfeld,today.
…and something else that often goes unnoticed in the fray is that Cinerama Releasing in no way tried to hide the fact in its publicity and advertising campaign that this was a 70mm presentation, not the original 3x35 format. Not that it went out of its way either to educate the public about the difference, but it sure didn’t try to right out “fool the audience.”