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A statement was brought to my attention referencing Sleeping Beauty’s Super Technirama 70® original photography “that yielded 70-millimeter prints with an aspect ratio almost as wide as that of Cinerama®.” We wrote on Technirama many years ago in Widescreen Review, and we reviewed Sleeping Beauty on LaserDisc with a measured aspect ratio of 2.35:1. This was the 35mm release print projected aspect ratio (actually 2.34:1). Technirama, in its camera and negative 35mm film format, used a 1.5 x 1 compression (horizontal) and Panavision (U.S.) prismatics or Delrama (Italy) mirror anamorphics. The 35mm release prints had a MagOptical or optical stereophonic or monaural soundtrack. Later on there was a 70mm release format called Super Technirama 70. This is the format in which Sleeping Beauty was released as a 70mm roadshow exhibition. The camera and negative were 35mm with the 1.5 x 1 compression and the same anamorphics, but the release prints were 70mm Technicolor exclusively with an aspect ratio of 2.21:1 sans six-track (five screen channels and one monaural surround channel) stereophonic soundtrack. The actual theatrical projected aspect ratio was 2.05:1. Compare that to the much wider 2.72:1 to 2.76:1 Cinerama aspect ratio. Solomon And Sheba was the first feature to utilize the process in 1959, followed by Sleeping Beauty. Spartacus was the next feature in 1960. The Black Cauldron was the last feature in 1985. The measured aspect ratio of Sleeping Beauty on the new Blu-ray Disc™ release is 2.54:1 with a 7.1-channel DTS-HD Master Audio™ soundtrack. Gary Reber Editor-In-Chief & Publisher Widescreen Review
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