70 mm Grandeur film , also called Fox Grandeur or Grandeur 70 , is a 70 mm widescreen film format developed by William Fox through his Fox Film and Fox-Case corporations and used commercially on a small but successful scale in 1929–30.
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69-988: A 35 mm print. Movietone News Movietone News was a newsreel that ran from 1928 to 1963 in the United States. Under the name British Movietone News , it also ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986, in France also produced by Fox-Europa, in Spain in the early 1930s as Noticiario Fox Movietone before being replaced by No-Do , in Australia and New Zealand until 1970, and Germany as Fox Tönende Wochenschau from 1930 to 1940 and from 1950 to 1978. An Indian version called Indian Movietone News ran in 1942 and 1943 before getting replaced by Indian News Parade . Movietone News evolved from an earlier newsreel established by Fox Films called Fox News which
92-501: A legal entity set to preserve important filmreels until Rupert Murdoch 's acquisition of the parent company 20th Century Fox and the subsequent liquidation of Movietone in 1984 and 1986 respectively. In Australia , Movietone and Cinesound were competitors for newsreel coverage, but later combined under the Australian Movie Magazine name. The University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections has
115-718: A portion of the Fox Movietone newsreel collection. The rest of it is owned and managed by the Fox Film Corporation 's corporate successor (and namesake), Fox News Channel . During its early years, Fox News Channel had a weekend show which played the newsreels. Licensing for Fox Movietone newsreels owned by the University of South Carolina is handled by the Moving Image Research Collections while licensing for Fox Movietone News
138-621: A small number of widescreen processes which were developed by the major Hollywood studios alongside sound in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Although the format proved to be successful, due to the Great Depression that began with the fall of Wall Street in October 1929, the Grandeur format then proved financially unviable for an industry still struggling to invest in the switch to talking pictures. Other theatres were resistant to making
161-470: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages 70 mm Grandeur film In 1925, with the advent of television on the horizon, William Fox of the Fox Film Studio empire envisioned a "grand" cinema experience to keep the public coming to the movie theaters. As such, he soon put full efforts behind enhancing the silent 35 mm film showings by
184-488: Is still owned by Fox Corporation and handled by Fox News Channel. British Movietone is owned separately by the films' successor-in-interest, operating under the name British Movietonews Ltd. The licensing of British Movietone newsreels is handled by AP Archive. In September 2016, it was announced that the British Movietone archive had been acquired by Associated Press . The Movietone News Australia archive
207-539: The Case Research Lab patents from William Fox for its sound newsreels. Each of these studios used this system of recording sound film for news items because it was an easily transported single-system of sound-on-film recording. Fox's first use of recording a news event was on May 20, 1927: Charles Lindbergh 's take-off from Roosevelt Field for his historic solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean
230-576: The musical Happy Days (1929), directed by Benjamin Stoloff , Song o’ My Heart (1930), a musical feature starring Irish tenor John McCormack and directed by Frank Borzage ( Seventh Heaven , A Farewell to Arms ). By April 1930, Fox Film Studios was prepared to begin filming for their greatest Grandeur epic film and Western The Big Trail (1930), directed by Raoul Walsh , cinematography by Arthur Edeson ASC, in which John Wayne at age 22 played his first starring role. Song 'o My Heart
253-574: The 70 mm "Grandeur" wide screen camera, with the Grandeur film process becoming the first theatrically successful wide screen film process when Fox Film Studio's released their epic made-for-Grandeur film, The Big Trail , in October 1930. The 70mm Fox Grandeur cameras were manufactured by Mitchell Camera Corporation , and were based on the Mitchell Studio Standard 35mm camera, enlarged to accommodate 70 mm 4-perf film. The cameras were designated as Mitchell Model FC cameras,
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#1732787091416276-682: The FC designation most likely originally standing for Fox-Case, as the technical specifications and orders for the cameras were submitted to Mitchell by the Fox-Case Corporation. The first three Fox Grandeur production cameras to be delivered were FC-1, FC-2, and FC-3, delivered to Fox-Case Corporation in New York on May 1, 1929, eventually followed by a total of 8 or 9 Fox Film Studio Grandeur Cameras. An additional four Grandeur cameras were delivered to MGM in 1930, plus one additional camera that
299-450: The addition of sound to be coupled to a wider than 35mm end product, with the hoped for result being a grand and lifelike experience for the viewers. This wide screen vision of William Fox soon resulted in his creating a partnership with Theodore Case and his assistant, Earl Sponable, pioneers of Sound on Film, with the partnership to be named the Fox-Case Corporation. The result was, first, the advent of Movietone Sound, then soon combined with
322-507: The earliest in the series featured George Bernard Shaw Talks to Movietone News , released on June 25, 1928. One of the known early producers of these newsreels was Abraham Harrison also known as Harry, father of notable black and white photographer Dody Weston Thompson who also found a brief career in film making. An early conductor of the Movietone News orchestra was Harry Lauder II, nephew of entertainer Sir Harry Lauder , who
345-417: The film) rather than the five of Todd-AO, because of the longer pitch the height of the image, at 0.91 inch (23.1 mm), was slightly greater than that of the 0.816 inch (20.73 mm) Todd AO image. The image width was 1.84 inch (46.74 mm) giving an aspect ratio of 2:1 and providing enough space for a Fox Movietone variable-density optical soundtrack of approximately double the width of that used on
368-522: The large investment necessary, and the onset of the Great Depression rendered the prospect of large-scale adoption of the expensive system untenable. Ultimately, the widescreen aspect ratio did become established by the early-1960s. Fox used the Grandeur name again on a re-release of The King and I ; this re-release was a Todd AO compatible 70mm reduction of the original CinemaScope 55 negative, advertised as being in “Grandeur 70”. Unlike
391-428: The later Todd-AO system (which printed onto 70mm film ), Grandeur did not use the same perforations as 35mm film, but instead had larger perforations on a longer pitch of 0.234 inch (5.95 mm) compared to the 0.187 inch (4.75 mm) pitch used by both 35 mm film and modern 70 mm film. Although Grandeur used a four perforation pulldown (i.e. each frame occupied the height equivalent to four perforations on
414-643: Was contracted by the company for eighteen months before William Fox took him to his Hollywood studio. Sir Harry Lauder also appeared in test sound films made at the Fox Studios in New York City during the winter-spring of 1927. One installment, Fox Grandeur News , was released on May 26, 1929, in Fox's short-lived widescreen process Grandeur and shown before the feature film Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 . Hearst Metrotone News initially leased
437-731: Was delivered to Feature Productions, also in 1930. William Fox himself had purchased the Mitchell Camera Corporation in mid 1929, with expectations of cornering the market on the cameras and equipment necessary for producing wide screen cinema. A small number of shorts and features were produced in 70mm wide Fox Grandeur in 1929, while Fox Studios prepared for their big release of a film specifically created to be shot in 70 mm widescreen. The 1929 shorts and features included several issues of Fox Movietone News called Fox Grandeur News first shown May 26, 1929. Features shot in Grandeur include Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 ,
460-560: Was double-shot in both conventional 35 mm and Fox Grandeur, with all action and singing performed separately for the two processes. Production began in November 1929, and the 35mm version debuted on March 11, 1930, in New York. The Grandeur version, however, shipped from the labs on March 17, 1930, was never released and may no longer survive, according to film historian Miles Kreuger. Filming of The Big Trail , which began in April 1930,
483-457: Was filmed with sound and shown in a New York theater that same night, inspiring Fox to create Movietone News. A regular narrator of the newsreels was broadcaster/journalist Lowell Thomas . After Fox Films merged with 20th Century Pictures in 1935 to form 20th Century-Fox (Later 20th Century Studios in 2020), the name of Fox Movietone News was shortened to Movietone News. The company's last regular broadcast occurred in 1963, although it existed as
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#1732787091416506-448: Was founded in 1919. It produced silent newsreels. When Fox entered talkies in 1928 with Mother Knows Best , the name Fox Movietone was applied to Fox's sound productions. In the U.S. as Fox Movietone News it produced cinema sound newsreels from 1928 to 1963, and from 1929 to 1986 in the UK (for much of that time as British Movietone News ), as well as 1929 to 1975 in Australia. One of
529-540: Was shot simultaneously in Grandeur and conventional 35mm movie film . Both versions survive, and differ significantly in composition, staging and editing. When the film was released on October 2, 1930, the only theaters equipped with the Grandeur projectors and wide screen were Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles and the Roxy Theatre in New York City . The Fox Grandeur process was first and foremost of
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