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Topic: Widescreen Film, ARC120 What is it?
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Hugh McCullough
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 156
From: Old Coulsdon. Surrey. UK
Registered: Oct 2006
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posted March 07, 2008 06:32 AM
Thank you for the link, Joerg.
Very interesting. This is a system that I have never come across.
Is there a misprint?
A 45mm print run on a normal projector.
Surely this should read 35mm, otherwise using 45mm film, the projector would not be 'normal'.
Link to article reproduced below www.in70mm.com/newsletter/2000/63/split/index.htm
Possibly the strangest example of splitting appeared in August 1960, when the PALACE CINEMA, Blackpool, England presented "Honeymoon" (1959) in MIRACLE ARC 120 (A.K.A: WONDERAMA).
Purely a projection system, the process was described in contemporary accounts as requiring a special print, produced by removing any squeeze, splitting the picture vertically down the centre of the frame and rotating the two halves to lie, foot to foot, on a single 35mm frame.
During projection the ARC 120 prismatic projection lens rotated the two halves back to form a single image on a specially installed "deeply curved" screen, an "integral rotating shutter" concealing the merge line.
"Honeymoon" was a conventional Technirama production, the laboratory making two of the special ARC 120 prints from a 35mm anamorphic interneg.
The Stereo sound was carried as two magnetic tracks outside of the perforations.
I failed to see this oddity which ran only four weeks before closing, the theatre suffering the same fate a few weeks later.
It has taken considerable research to unearth any information on this long forgotten process. I can find no record of ARC 120 ever being shown again although "Honeymoon" still occasionally appears in afternoon TV schedules.
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