Total vision
Totalvision was developed in the GDR as a separate anamorphic process for wide-screen format cinema films. On May 2, 1957, when the Berlin cinema Colosseum reopened with the DEFA feature film Mazurka der Liebe , this format was used for the first time as an independent production. The technology and film format corresponded to and were compatible with the CinemaScope licensed by 20th Century Fox. The projection anamorphic lens was called the "rectimascope" and came from the Rathenower optical works .
Films in Totalvision (selection)
(sw = black and white film, fa = color film)
- 1957: Mazurka of love fa
- 1957: Casino affair fa [shot in total vision / color, but in the GDR mostly shown in normal image / black and white]
- 1958: The misery (Les misérables) fa
- 1958: The song of the sailors sw
- 1959: Simplon tunnel sw
- 1959: Senta on the wrong track sw
- 1959: Cabal and love sw
- 1960: The silent star (Milcząca Gwiazda) fa
- 1960: step by step sw
- 1960: The beautiful Lurette fa
- 1961: Mother Courage and her children sw
- 1961: The doctor from Bothenow sw
- 1961: Vacation without you sw
- 1961: The dream of Captain Loy sw
- 1961: Death has a face sw
- 1961: A handful of notes fa
- 1961: The fa dress [first performed in 1991]
- 1962: If you stick to me sw
- 1962: Revue at midnight fa
- 1962: The black galley sw
- 1963: fog sw
- 1963: Naked among wolves sw
- 1963: For Eyes Only sw
- 1963: Now and at the hour of my death sw
- 1964: Preludio 11 sw
- 1964: black velvet sw
- 1964: Follow me, Canailles! fa
- 1964: Alaska foxes sw
- 1964: The divided sky sw
- 1964: The song of the trumpeter sw
- 1964: The flying Dutchman sw [partly total vision, partly normal image]
- 1965: Chronicle of a murder sw
- 1965: Terra Incognita sw
- 1965: Murderer on vacation (Ubica na odsustvu) sw
- 1965: A terrible woman (Strašná žena) fa
- 1965: Lot's wife sw
- 1965: As long as life is in me sw
- 1965: The best years sw
- 1965: nothing but sin fa
- 1965: Don't you think I'm crying sw [first performed in 1990]
- 1966: The sons of the great she-bear fa
- 1966: trace of the stones sw
- 1966: Karla sw [first performed in 1990]
- 1966: When you grow up, dear Adam fa [first performed in 1990]
- 1967: Mrs. Venus and her devil fa
- 1968: We're getting a divorce sw
- 1968: The murder that never expires sw
- 1968: The dead stay young sw
- 1970: fatal error fa
- 1971: do you know Urban? sw
- 1971: career sw
- 1971: Hussars in Berlin fa
- 1971: You and I and Little Paris fa
- 1972: Black rusks ( Чёрные сухари ) fa
- 1973: Apaches fa
Web links
- Ultrascope on cinematographers.nl (English)