How The West Was Won (1962) Theatrical Uncut Trailer (4K Cinerama 2.89 Restoration)
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The Original 1962 How The West Was Won Trailer, Restored in 4K!
(Matched back from the 2008 Warner Bros. Bluray source)
as seen on the Turner Classic Movies site, this version is over a minute and a half longer than Warner's "Theatrical" version, which I believe is actually a second run cut down version.
This upload is non-monetized for historical and archival purposes.
From Wikipedia (with notes from Kyle Popovich):
In 2000,
Warner Bros. assigned Crest Digital the task of
restoring the original Cinerama negative for How the West Was Won.
As part of the process,
Crest Digital built its own authentic Cinerama screening room.
Hewlett-Packard led efforts to combine the three image portions
to make the Cinerama image look more acceptable on a flat screen.
Though the aspect ratio of Cinerama is 2.59:1,
Warner's new releases of the film offer an aspect ratio of 2.89:1,
incorporating much information on both sides
that was not intended to be seen when projected.
The Blu-ray-exclusive SmileBox alternative contains the intended cropping intact.
(This is also the version currently available on TH-cam, the "Restored SmileBox Trailer" which has visual imperfections as I have stated in the comment section of that video, here: [ • "HOW THE WEST WAS WON"... ] - Kyle Popovich)
In 2006,
Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging
performed digital restoration on How the West Was Won.
The film was restored frame by frame
at Prasad Corporation to remove dirt, tears, scratches and other damage,
restoring the film's original appearance.
The restored version has been shown on television since October 2008 on the Encore Westerns channel.
(And now in a trailer form here on TH-cam! Please don't take this video down Warner, or at least contact me and I'd love to send you the video and work out some sort of deal, I LOVE warner archive and noticed the original trailer has EXTENDED shots NOT in the theatrical and bluray release of the movie? Possible the trailer was made with earlier prints/rough cuts of the movie? or did the trailer guys have access to all the negative reels? - Kyle Popovich)
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Source: 2008 Bluray
Output: 4096 x 1416, 45 Mbps
🐴🐴🐴 I AM ONE OF THE OLD GUYS NOW.........I can still see the HUGE MOVIE THEATER DISPLAY MARQUIS in NEW YORK CITY in Spring 1963. CINERAMA !!! As BIG AS IMAX ONCE WAS. THREE HUGE MOVIE SCREENS IN THE THEATER. We were in 8th Grade in the small town to the south in New Jersey. NEW YORK CITY WAS THE WORLD. OUR ENGLISH PROFESSOR teacher wanted us to see this movie. NOT THE HISTORY TEACHER......THE ENGLISH TEACHER. She was correct. THANK YOU MS. "Z". I never forgot the huge impact it had on me. When the US Army stationed me in NORTHERN CALIFORNIA........I MADE IT MY HOME. 🐴🐴🐴 IT WAS JUST AS INSPIRING THEN AS KEVIN COSTNER'S "HORIZON" IS TODAY. 🏆🏆🏆 AMERICA WAS SITTING THERE........ WAITING TO BE LIVED IN BY US. HAPPY 4TH OF JULY #248 USA. 🗽🗽🗽
I'm very envious of the fact that you seen this film way back then it must've been quite an experience!
This movie is really MEANT to be seen on a curved screen (Or with perspective adjusted "Smilebox" mode). Then you really get the actual visual experience you had in the cinema back then. Cinerama (the one that used 3x 35mm cameras & projectors) really was something else and it really stands out in the history of Motion Picture storytelling :) it's one of the most beautifully shot Hollywood movies ever made.
I got to see a restored version of this trailer in 2010 on the Cinerama screen in Bradford, England. It was something that I'll always treasure.
Unfortunately, my time there was about a month before their next screening of this.
Yes I have seen this in three panel Cinerama it was mind blowing
Watching that Full Trailer for a truely & Absolutely Great Film. All I can add is that up to Two months ago. I had never seen it before. Since on the Movie's original release Date? I was about Four & a Half Year's of age then. The Film is too this Very Day? One of My utmost favorite movies of all time. Thanks Again for Showing & Sharing.
Love this, great work Kyle!
Thank you so much! Each frame was breathing to work on! And the music, the narration! Just an amazing feeling al around. Happy to give life back into this gem of a trailer. Thanks for stopping by!
Beautiful restoration! So well done. Thank you for doing this.
You're welcome. Thank you for the words and stopping by to comment!
The whole movie is gorgeous and I hope it will make a theatrical re-release run again one day and we can all truly go back in time!
I've seen this in three-projector Cinerama. I've also seen a normal 'scope reduction print and those ridiculous pan-and-scan TV prints. This is amazing. They managed to scrub away the seams. Most shots look like they were taken with a single camera.
It truly is breath-taking! I would love to hear you talk about that experience. Put up a vlog on your TH-cam, I know plenty of people that would be interested in that story. I love scope, and super happy to find another like-minded person! Thanks for stopping by and for the kindness. All the best for now! Will be looking for that vlog!
Don't think I'll be vlogging about films just yet -- I'm writing a book. But I can say this: HTWWW includes many shots originally taken in Ultra-Panavision -- the single-camera 2.8-something-to-1 system invented for "Raintree County." In fact, some shots are straight-out lifted from Raintree. When projected in actual Cinerama, these shots really stick out due to the grain. More importantly, they are also the only shots without Cinerama's usual fish-eye focal length. Thus, they look somehow "flatter" and less immersive compared to the shots taken with three cameras.
Although there is definitely something special about watching an actual Cinerama film on a louvered semi-circular screen (from the third row!), in some ways I prefer the newly-available digital reconstructions of CInerama to the thing-in-itself. To understand why, just look at that shot of logs rolling down a ramp into the river. It's in the HTWWW trailer. In Cinerama, that shot looks AWFUL. The three screens just don't match up; the distortion is ugly. The same shot looked particularly terrible in the Panavision reduction prints made in the '60s. But in the digital version now available, the problem is pretty much solved. Digital is magic.
Incidentally, my old friend Kurt Wahlner worked on "The Last Days of Cinerama," which I'm sure will be the final movie shot in the process. I haven't spoken with him about it, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the Cinerama shots taken inside the Cinerama Dome theater were his idea. That's the kind of goofy notion he always liked.
They say that HTWWW was the better of the two narrative Cinerama films. I wouldn't know; I've yet to see the Brothers Grimm movie. But the sad truth is that HTWWW, though it looks magnificent, falls into the "good but not great" category. The early sequences are more compelling than the later ones. The weakest sequence, sorry to say, is the one directed by John Ford -- it's nothing but talk, Henry Morgan is miscast, and John Wayne isn't at his best.
Can't wait to read your book!
And thanks for noting the Ultra Panavision, I was wondering how they accomplished those flatter shots and VFX comps on the water sequences. Very interesting how I'm sure any difference in ground shift would ruin the whole shot, so a floating raft would be a no go. But the front facing shots "lifted" from Raintree look great! So they must have had some sort of tight rig?
I'm happy you like this restoration, this is really what digital magic should be used for. Thanks for agreeing, but also I do envy your Cinerama experience, ha! Thanks so much for sharing.
Very interested in The Last Days, never heard of that! Your friend sounds like good people.
And yes, the cannon sequence and dance sequences are the only good Ford shots, and the rest I was very confused/didn't feel like Ford.
"most shots look like they were taken with a single camera" : because they were
@@hothemeep1219 Only a small-ish percentage of the shots were single-camera Ultra-Panavision. They stand out pretty clearly when you see the film projected. The grain is different and the lenses are different.
I Can Not or Will Not Say anything More. Than it was a Classic Film which told a Complete 💯 ✅ percent Story about the Settling of Our Western Land's. Thank You.
They make no more good movies like this anymore so sad. Good old movies are the best
Great thank you❤
You're so welcome, thank you, for watching!!
Yes I have seen it as well in three strip Cinerama a great American classic
I saw this mighty Western epic in its original 3-projector screening at the Cinerama Cinema is London's
Soho in the early 1960s, and now have the excellent no lines transfer to DVD. It is reported that HTWWW
was the film that inspired Kevin Costner to make his own top-notch Western films.
ये बहुत चर्चित मूवी है बार बार देखने लायक क्लिप के लिए शुक्रिया
Great movie the actors and the storylines a real classic
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Well said! My Ukranian Grandmother (Baba) says good movies need heart / drama!
Those wide-angle distortions!
oh my god ? ? ?
I know?! How did this ever come to be?! What a gem. Thanks for stopping by!
I know it's the old clichee but they don't make them like this anymore. Can you imagine Russel Crowe or any highly priced and hyped up actresses making this movie today????
Today it should be even less complicated if they shoot it digitally and syncing each camera and also being able to MOVE the cameras and not having to rely on tripod mounds due to the complicated nature of rigging 3 Filmcameras together to maintain the proper perspective.
In short, they *can't* make them like this anymore.
Ben-Hur was not made for the three screen Cinerama - but I'm sure I saw it in such a version long after it's release. Can anyone confirm that?
The Widescreen Museum states:
the full 2.76:1 70mm aspect ratio. Ben-Hur's spectacular photography was matched with its extremely vivid 6 channel stereophonic sound. For practical reasons, the film was shown with an aspect ratio of about 2.5:1 in most roadshow houses.
So I don't think you saw it in there screens, BUT you might have saw it on large curved screen, and with the 2.5:1 aspect it would certainly have felt like a Cinerama presentation. You would know for sure if you saw a Cinerama presentation. But the Ben Hur in theatres would have been far more impressive a film than how the west was one (aside from the native horseback scenes, nearing to the chariot race in complexity). Hope this helps!
It was 70mm, and Quentin Tarantino found and used that very same camera (Panovision) to film The Hateful 8.
Ben Hur came out before Cinerama
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A more fitting title would be "How the West Was Lost."
what the,,,,why dont they play the music that goes with this movie? the music is better than the movie..sounds like they are playing roy rogers music in this trailer