The vast majority of films in the scope filmography were shot at 24 frames per second, and it's incumbent upon me to mention the few cases when movies are photographed at other frame rates. However, as correspondent Gary Couzens pointed out recently, the various Cinerama documentary features (THIS IS CINERAMA, SEARCH FOR PARADISE, etc.) were actually photographed at 26fps, and should be listed as such. Same goes for WINDJAMMER, the only film shot in the Cinemiracle process (just to confuse matters, the Todd-70 feature SCENT OF MYSTERY was later converted to Cinemiracle and screened under the title HOLIDAY IN SPAIN, running at 24fps!). However, the two narrative Cinerama features - HOW THE WEST WAS WON and THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM - were both shot at 24fps, presumably to facilitate easy printing of 35mm and 70mm release prints. My thanks to Gary for reminding me of this important point. Further research indicates the Kinopanorama process from Russia ran at 25fps, and this is duly noted.
Though originally screened at festivals under the title SYDNEY, this film - one of Paul Thomas Anderson's earliest works - was eventually given wide release as HARD EIGHT (1996), which now becomes the primary title for this filmography. SYDNEY becomes an AKA.
The AKA for HARLEQUIN (1980) currently listed as Dark Places should actually be DARK FORCES. This mistake has been festering in the filmog since I first began compiling it many moons ago, and it took Gary Couzens' eagle eye to point out my error! My thanks to Gary, and my apologies to everyone else!!
And after yet more prompting from Gary, I checked out online footage from TESTIMONY (1987) and discovered it's an early example of 'spheri-crop' filmmaking, not anamorphic Panavision as currently listed.
Contrary to the mistake I made in the entry for 1 Apr 2012, the film I listed as House at the Edge of the Street is actually titled HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET. That entry has now been amended.
The on-screen title of À Tout Coeur a Tokyo pour OSS 117 is actually ATOUT COEUR À TOKYO POUR OSS 117 (1966).
The Thai film currently listed as B.K.O.: Bangkok Knockout is actually given on-screen as BANGKOK KNOCKOUT (2010), and was co-directed by Panna Rittikrai and Morakot Kaewthanee. The Thai title is โคตรสู้ โคตรโส. It was filmed and exhibited at 1.85:1, so has now been dropped from the filmography.
The on-screen title of Black Magic Part II is actually BLACK MAGIC 2 (1976).
HICK (2011) is currently listed as a 'spheri-crop' film, but online trailers reveal it was actually shot with anamorphic lenses (Panavision, according to the IMDb).
The film currently listed as Neighborhood Watch has now been retitled THE WATCH (2012).
These entries now run as follows:
AMAZING HUNTING
Удивительная охота
USSR - 1962 - col and 3-panel
D: Boris Dolin
Kinopanorama (25fps)
9-channel stereo
2.59:1
ATOUT COEUR À TOKYO POUR OSS 117
(aka: Mission to Tokyo)
(aka: OSS 117: Terror in Tokyo)
France/Italy - 1966 - col
D: Michel Boisrond
Franscope
BLACK MAGIC 2
勾魂降頭
(aka: Revenge of the Zombies)
Hong Kong - 1976 - col
D: Ho Meng-hua
Shawscope
CINERAMA HOLIDAY
USA - 1955 - col and 3-panel
D: Robert L. Bendick, Philippe De Lacey
Cinerama (26fps)
7-channel stereo
2.59:1
CINERAMA SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE
(aka: South Seas Adventure)
USA - 1958 - col and 3-panel
D: Francis D. Lyon, Walter Thompson, Carl Dudley, Richard Goldstone, Basil Wrangell
Cinerama (26fps)
7-channel stereo
2.59:1
CINERAMA'S RUSSIAN ADVENTURE
USA - 1965 - col and 3-panel
D: Boris Dolin, Vasily Kafanian, Roman Karmen, Solomon Kogan, Leonid Kristi, Oleg Lebedev
Kinopanorama / Cinerama
7-channel stereo
2.59:1
[US compilation of footage from various Russian movies photographed in the Kinopanorama process, at 25 frames per second. New wraparound footage was shot in Cinerama at 26fps, and the entire film was printed and screened at the slightly faster Cinerama frame-rate]
DANGEROUS CURVES
Опасные повороты
(aka: Naughty Curves)
USSR/Estonia - 1961 - col and 3-panel
D: Kaljo Kiisk, Yuli Kuhn
Kinopanorama (25fps)
9-channel stereo
2.59:1
DARK FORCES
(see: Harlequin)
THE ENCHANTED MIRROR
Волшебное зеркало
USSR - 1958 - col and 3-panel
D: Ivan Aksenchuk, V. Kommisarzkhevskiy, Leonid Kristi
Kinopanorama (25fps)
9-channel stereo
2.59:1
THE GREAT BATTLE
Течёт Волга
(aka: The Volga Flows On)
USSR - 1962 - col and 3-panel
D: Yakov Segel
Kinopanorama (25fps)
9-channel stereo
2.59:1
GREAT IS MY COUNTRY
Покорители моря
USSR - 1957 - col and 3-panel
D: Roman Karmen
Kinopanorama (25fps)
9-channel stereo
2.59:1
[Early ad-mats credited the screen format as 'Cinepanorama']
HARD EIGHT
(aka: Sydney)
USA - 1996 - col
D: Paul Thomas Anderson
HARLEQUIN
(aka: Dark Forces)
(aka: The Minister's Magician)
Australia - 1980 - col
D: Simon Wincer
Panavision
HICK
USA - 2011 - col
D: Derick Martini
Panavision
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
USA/New Zealand - 2012 - col and 3-D (48fps)
D: Peter Jackson
THE HOBBIT: THERE AND BACK AGAIN
USA/New Zealand - 2013 - col and 3-D (48fps)
D: Peter Jackson
HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET
USA - 2012 - col
D: Mark Tonderai
Techniscope
HOW THE WEST WAS WON
USA - 1962 - col and 3-panel
D: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall
Cinerama (24fps)
7-channel stereo
2.59:1
[Reissue version converted to single-strip 70mm]
MISSION TO TOKYO
(see: Atout Coeur à Tokyo pour OSS 117)
ONE HOUR OF UNEXPECTED TRAVELS BY HELICOPTER
Час неожиданных Путешесвий в полете на вертолете
USSR - 1960 - col and 3-panel
D: Leonid Kristi
Kinopanorama (25fps)
9-channel stereo
2.59:1
OSS 117: TERROR IN TOKYO
(see: Atout Coeur à Tokyo pour OSS 117)
SCENT OF MYSTERY
(aka: Holiday in Spain)
USA - 1959 - col - 65mm
D: Jack Cardiff
Todd-70
70mm release prints
Smell-o-Vision!
2.21:1
[Re-edited version, Holiday in Spain, converted optically to Cinemiracle format (running at 24fps, rather than the Cinemiracle standard of 26fps), with 2.55:1 aspect ratio, and released in 1962]
SEARCH FOR PARADISE
USA - 1957 - col and 3-panel
D: Otto Lang
Cinerama (26fps)
7-channel stereo
2.59:1
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD
USA - 1955 - col and 3-panel
D: Tay Garnett, Paul Mantz, Andrew Marton, Ted Tetzlaff, Walter Thompson
Cinerama (26fps)
7-channel stereo
2.59:1
SYDNEY
(see: Hard Eight)
TESTIMONY
UK/W.Germany/Sweden/Netherlands/Denmark - 1987 - bw and col
D: Tony Palmer
THIS IS CINERAMA
USA - 1952 - col and 3-panel
D: Merian C. Cooper, Gunther von Fritsch
Cinerama (26fps)
7-channel stereo
2.59:1
TO THE ANTARCTIC FOR THE WHALES
В Антарктиду за китами
USSR - 1961 - col and 3-panel
D: Solomon Kogan
Kinopanorama (25fps)
9-channel stereo
2.59:1
TSIRKOVOE PREDSTAVLENIE
Цирковое Представление
USSR - 1960 - col
D: Leonid Kristi
Kinopanorama (25fps)
9-channel stereo
2.59:1
[In 1961, this was paired with the short film Na Krasnoi Ploshchadi (На Красной Площади, 1960) and screened under the collective title Chetvyortaya Programma Panoramikh Filmov: 'Tsirkovoye Predstavleniye' i 'Na Krasnoy Ploshchadyu' (Четвертая программа панорамных фильмов: 'Цирковое представление' и 'На Красной Площади')]
USSR WITH AN OPEN HEART
СССР с открытым сердцем
USSR - 1961 - col and 3-panel
D: Leonid Kristi
Kinopanorama (25fps)
9-channel stereo
2.59:1
THE WATCH
USA - 2012 - col
D: Akiva Schaffer
THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM
USA - 1962 - col and 3-panel
D: Henry Levin, George Pal
Cinerama (24fps)
7-channel stereo
2.59:1
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