NY Capital Region people.....wanna see GONE WITH THE WIND on the big screen?

[Chip TRG]

This Monday (9-17-07) at 7PM, The Palace Theatre in Albany kicks off another season of classic movie screenings through 'til the summertime, and what better way to start this year's series than to see GONE WITH THE WIND on the big screen?

This year, they'll be showing some classic WB cartoons before most of the shows.

Where do I come in in all of this? They also show vintage trailers which come from my personal film collection. (Sadly, the cartoons are NOT mine! :( )

Tickets to get in are only $5, and it's a non-profit sort of thing, so come on out and enjoy the films the way they were MEANT to be seen!

(Disclaimer: While I supply trailers for the presenattions, I am NOT an employee of the theatre. This is merely a posting to pass along the info to those of you in the area who would not have known about the film series otherwise.)

BTW....here is the website for the theatre.....it's a beauty befitting of it's name, to be sure!

www.palacealbany.com

[Steve Hoffman]

Make sure they take the matte out before projecting GWTW.

Have fun!

[Yankee8156]

Sounds great, wish I could be there.....Gone With The Wind is one of those films I'd always thought I'd get a kick out of seeing on the big screen.

[Chip TRG]

Make sure they take the matte out before projecting GWTW.

Have fun!

I'm interested to see what kind of print we'll be getting....weren't some of the reissues boxed to fit into a 1:85 squash?

Well, ANYTHING is better than that horrendous 1967 CinemaScope reformat!!!

[Frodis]

Any time a classic gets screen time on the big one it's a good day.

I'd love to see another resurgence of the Marx Brothers movies on the big screen myself locally. I know they have the Freedonia Marxonia in NY but it's a bit of a haul from the MD/DC area for a day trip.

Have fun though! :wave:

[XMIAudioTech]

1967 CinemaScope reformat!!!

that's also 1997, the 'all new IB Tech' prints were 1.33 in a scope frame.

and yes it was pretty bad. The SDDS track played fine though.

I bet that's the only print that New Line has for any screenings unless someone loans out a collector print (fat chance) :p

-Aaron

[posieflump]

Well, ANYTHING is better than that horrendous 1967 CinemaScope reformat!!!

I think that's the one which used to turn up on UK television, subjected to further panning-and-scanning in the pre-widescreen days. Two noses talking to each other; vicious electronic pans every few seconds; and a title card which proclaimed "ne With The Wi"!

I have an off-air video of the film "Teacher's Pet", recorded from a pan/scan broadcast on the BBC circa 1989, where the opening caption says the film was made in "staVisio" (VistaVision).

[Larry L]

This movie needs to be seen in a theater, on the big screen.

[Jack Theakston]

The new scope prints are OK if you've got good lenses. Why WB has not struck full-ap prints of their biggest money maker is beyond me (unless they have since I booked one).

Unfortunately, the film was permanently damaged in 1954 when MGM reissued the picture to be shown in the new flat widescreen system. Five shots were reformatted with hard mattes, and the original sections in the three-strip negatives were junked and replaced with the reformats. So the picture now has several hard matted shots stuck in the picture.

[ashleyfan]

Jack, thanks for the info-which shots were they?

[Jack Theakston]

1. In the beginning, when Scarlett runs across the lawn at Tara
2. The first pullback shot of Scarlett and her father standing under the tree looking out over the plantation
3. and 4. Two of the spectacular shots in the Atlanta railroad station
5. The final pullback shot at the end of the picture

These were the shots that were noted as needing to be optically enhanced. I don't know if all of them became hard matted.

[Chip TRG]

As far as ratio's go, the print projected VERY well....we had one of the "full-frame-printed-in-Scope" prints, and it worked out just beautifully.

I'm guessing that a lot of modern theatres don't really have the proper lenses to run full frame prints, so the 1:33-in-scope format actually works nicely in giving the full picture with little or no cropping.

The only downfall to the print we ran was that it was VERY choppy in spots.

Still, though, we had a hall of almost 600 people, and everyone loved it. Our next show is "Frankenstein" on October 1st.

[XMIAudioTech]

I'm guessing that a lot of modern theatres don't really have the proper lenses to run full frame prints, so the 1:33-in-scope format actually works nicely in giving the full picture with little or no cropping.

That is exactly why the 1997 prints were made that way.

The same was true for the 1998 Wizard Of Oz reissue except they were 1.33 in a 1.85 flat frame Eastman (the 50-ish true IB prints struck were in full frame 1.33 and released to theatres that could properly handle the format).


-Aaron

[Solaris]

I saw it here on the big screen for the 50th anniversary in 1999 and I urge any film lover to see it this way if at all possible. It's a great experience.

[Chip TRG]

The same was true for the 1998 Wizard Of Oz reissue except they were 1.33 in a 1.85 flat frame .....

-Aaron

The WB 'toons we ran on Monday were formated that way. A quick rotation of the lens turret and GWTW was on its way!

[phish]

FWIW, my great great aunt is margaret mitchell. she and my great grandmother were best friends and playmates growing up.

[Chip TRG]

I saw it here on the big screen for the 50th anniversary in 1999 and I urge any film lover to see it this way if at all possible. It's a great experience.

I totally agreee. I've seen the movie plenty of times in the past, but seeing it in a beautfiul VINTAGE movie house with a decent sized crowd reacting to it was just a majorly different viewing expierence, and if you ever get a chance to see it on a screen, then TAKE that chance!