Pretty cool, right? No photograph or video can really do this historic landmark justice. Here's a time-lapse video of the cinema's restoration: It is now the largest IMAX in the world in terms of seating capacity (932 seats), and features the third largest IMAX screen in North America (94 feet wide, 46 feet tall). The Chinese Theatre - now officially called the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX - was recently overhauled and converted to a digital IMAX cinema. The best part? 'Oz' originally premiered in this very same auditorium on August 15, 1939. Newer auditoriums are either native builds or retrofited Digital IMAX cinemas, which use dual 2K projectors for both 2D and 3D films and do not feature the astounding tall screens of the original IMAX cinemas.įor this screening, which came one day after the film's IMAX 3D premiere, we saw 'The Wizard of Oz' at the legendary Chinese Theatre in the heart of Hollywood. Some were first created for Science Museums that ran IMAX 15-perf 70mm film. Every IMAX auditorium is a little different. 'Oz' then went through IMAX's DMR process, where hundreds of people "optimized and honed, shot-by-shot, to bring out all of the detail and reduce the noise." The IMAX team also took Oz's current 5.1 mix (which, if you recall, was created in 2005, but released in lossless Dolby TrueHD sound for the first time in 2009), and tweaked the audio for IMAX's larger dynamic range and proprietary surround format.Īccording to provided press materials, 'The Wizard of Oz' is the oldest film to ever be converted to 3D or IMAX 3D.īefore I jump into my personal reactions to the conversion and IMAX 3D experience, I have to first talk about where I saw the film. This entire 3D conversion process took about 16 months. Prime Focus also does 2D and 3D visual effects work.Īfter layering shots to put them in "proper 3D space," 3D elements returned to Warners for color correction in 3D. Prime Focus has done stereo conversion work on 'Gravity' (only trailers so far, but WOW!), 'World War Z', 'The Great Gatsby', 'Transformers Dark of the Moon', and many others. and given to a company called Prime Focus to do the 3D conversion. Either way, the film was "cleaned up" - removing scratches, etc. It's the same team behind the wonderful 70th Anniversary restoration, but I'm not sure if they did new scans or used the 2009 scans. Home Entertainment went back to the original negatives to do an 8K scan. Then again, once you've been burned, I can understand not wanting to spend extra money on something you don't enjoy.įor 'The Wizard of Oz', Warner Bros.
But I don't think we should ever close our minds to the possibility of loving a film (or film format) because someone did a bad job previously, and because it's not as clear cut what is actually been converted.
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To be clear, I'm definitely pro shooting in native 3D because, when done right, filmmakers like Ang Lee and Martin Scorsese really enhance the medium. He didn't like how digital cameras made his actors look in extreme closeups, so he shot them on 35mm and had them converted.
Another great example is Michael Bay on 'Transformers Dark of the Moon'. Why? Because shooting in 3D is infinitely more complex than 2D and if there are any imperfections, a shot won't work and you have to fix it.
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There are a lot more conversions than you think.Įvery "native-3D" movie has converted material in it. Second, and much more important, there's a very important thing to remember about 3D: First, conversions such as 'Titanic - 3D' and 'The Lion King - 3D' really impressed, so it can be done right. I totally hear you.įor me, I approach 3D on a film-by-film basis and don't really care whether or not it's native-3D or a conversion. Hell, 3D doesn't even work for some of you and others have been disappointed by sloppy stereo conversions. You want your cinema as pure as possible, with the filmmakers' artistic intentions held up above corporate profit. I know some of our readers loathe 3D and/or 3D conversion. Later, on October 1st, 'Oz' will make its Blu-ray 3D debut in a 75th Anniversary Collector's Edition as well as a two-disc Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + HD Ultraviolet edition. Monday, HDD scored an invite to see the new 'The Wizard of Oz IMAX 3D' conversion, which will debut theatrically on 300 IMAX screens this Friday, September 20th, and run for one week only.
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