Filmmaker and Panavision cofounder Richard Moore was probably the least famous person whose passing today received any notice, but he certainly had a big impact on what you see at the movie theater and on DVD. Below are a few trailers for films made the Panavision 65 process he is credited with developing. (Technically, all 70 mm films are really 65mm — 5 milimeters are required for the magnetic sound strips.)
All of these, particularly “Lawrence of Arabia” and “2001” are movies you should try to see on the biggest screen possible, ideally projected on film and in a movie theater. If you’re lucky enough to live someplace where older movies are occasionally still shown on 70mm prints, leap at the chance. Seeing movies like that is too much fun to be left only to hardcore film geeks.
