600 Projection room, showing the Phillips DP70 dual gauge 35 and 70mm projectors, with Peerless Magnarc carbon arc lamphouses of the COLUMBIA THEATRE, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, LONDON, the name of the cinema when it opened in 1959

8mm, 16mm, 35mm and … 70mm

Cigarettes & Red Vines offers an interesting and insightful look at 70mm film, the format favoured by Paul Thomas Anderson in his most recent film The Master, 2012.

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Image: Projection room, showing the Phillips DP70 dual gauge 35/70mm projectors, with Peerless Magnarc carbon arc lamphouses of the Columbia Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, the name of the cinema when it opened in 1959. Courtesy of The Cinema Museum, London