JAF%MIT-SPEECH@MIT-MC.ARPA (04/16/84)
From: Joseph A. Frisbie <JAF%MIT-SPEECH@MIT-MC.ARPA> Tron, as well as Brainstorm, was filmed in 70mm although a 70mm print was never shown in the Boston area. Joe -------
cwr%SCH-Gila@sri-unix.UUCP (04/19/84)
From: Craig W. Reynolds <cwr at SCH-Gila>
Date: Mon 16 Apr 84 12:00:54-EST
From: Joseph A. Frisbie <JAF%MIT-SPEECH@MIT-MC.ARPA>
Subject: 70mm
Tron, as well as Brainstorm, was filmed in 70mm although a 70mm print
was never shown in the Boston area.
Well, close enough -- principal photography for a 70mm release print is
normally done in 65mm, but what's 5mm between friends? But the effects
in TRON were shot in Vistavision (horizontal 35mm, 8 perf frames) where
as the Braindrain effects work was shot in 65mm. As Mike Wahrman
mentioned, this was better-than-standard practice, and the proof was on
the screen.
-c