Dimension 150

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Dimension 150 was a film recording process for 70mm wide screen films introduced in 1966 .

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Dimension 150 was a further development of Todd-AO . When, after 1962, Cinerama could no longer find funding to produce three-strip films, the idea of ​​showing 70mm films on deeply vaulted Cinerama screens came up. Todd-AO jumped on this train.

Richard Vetter and Carl Williams subsequently developed a lens for film recordings, with which a performance on a deeply vaulted screen of 150 degrees was possible. This returned to the original idea of Michael Todd , who was already in Oklahoma! and went around the world in that direction in 80 days . At that time, however, only a viewing angle of 128 degrees was possible.

Despite the impressive pictures, the system did not prevail because only a few cinemas carried out the conversion work to D-150. It was also difficult for the directors to work with this extreme focal length. Only two films have just been shot in this format. 20th Century Fox first advertised the system as D-150 and eventually Dimension 150.

Films in dimension 150

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