Was there an anamorphic 70MM Version Of The wonderful World of The Brothers Grimm?

[cinemad]

I remember some years ago Martin Hart saying he had seen a 70mm anamorphic print of HTWWW and I'm wondering if there were any 70mm prints made of Brothers Grimm and if so was it anamorphic?

We had the 35mm scope version released here for the suburban theatres about a year after the 3 strip release in 1964(HTWWW ran for 15 months at the Plaza Cinerama here in Sydney)

What was the procedure? Did they make a 65MM Interpos from the 3-strip camera negs
and make 65mm and 35mm internegs from those or did they make 3 3-strip interpositives and make the composite from that?

Regards,
Peter Mason

[Martin Hart]

Post by cinemad
I remember some years ago Martin Hart saying he had seen a 70mm anamorphic print of HTWWW and I'm wondering if there were any 70mm prints made of Brothers Grimm and if so was it anamorphic?
We had the 35mm scope version released here for the suburban theatres about a year after the 3 strip release in 1964(HTWWW ran for 15 months at the Plaza Cinerama here in Sydney)
What was the procedure? Did they make a 65MM Interpos from the 3-strip camera negs
and make 65mm and 35mm internegs from those or did they make 3 3-strip interpositives and make the composite from that?
Regards,
Peter Mason

Good question and one that I've also tried to find the answer for. I
suspect that no 65mm negative was shot off the Grimm three strip films.
The 70mm print of HTWWW was issued a good many years after the film was
released in 35mm anamorphic to local theatres. Hopefully a better job
of duplicating the three panels was done on the 65mm negative than was
done in 35mm, which is just dreadful. There also appears to be a couple
of different 35mm anamorphic versions, all equally bad but with the
image centered differently.

Since Grimm did not produce the revenue that HTWWW did in its original
or subsequent releases, MGM probably felt that a 65mm negative would be
a senseless waste of money.

But who knows????

Marty

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anamorphic 70mm frame unquesed:

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recently saw the flat version, which looked like the flat versions of Ben Hur = grainy and generally terrible