{"id":9242,"date":"2014-07-24T15:46:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T19:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9242"},"modified":"2014-07-24T23:06:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T03:06:36","slug":"khartoum-a-cinerama-desert-panorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9242","title":{"rendered":"Khartoum – a Cinerama Desert Panorama!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is at this precise moment that General Charles ‘Chinese’ Gordon uttered the poetic words “Oh shit” before his head was sent to a higher altitude.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This magical upload is courtesy of VIA Rail’s in-car wifi, which works, and enabled a lot of writing and website minutia to get done as I head back to T.O. after a few days away from T.O. and all of it’s political wackiness.<\/p>\n

If you get to spend time surrounded by flowers like these, it’s hard not to wind down and relax. (It also doesn’t hurt if you’re eating German food + cake.)<\/p>\n

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Tuesday I shot footage of an exotic private garden with a 1985 Canon tube video camera, and the day after different areas were shot with a small Canon HD camera. Expect edited versions later this fall.<\/p>\n

Just posted is a review of the epic Cinerama film\u00a0Khartoum\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>(1966) which wasn’t actually shot in Cinerama but was exhibited ‘flat’ and in special ‘rectified’ prints for single-lens Cinerama projection.<\/p>\n

Twilight Time’s Blu-ray sports a gorgeous HD transfer, and Frank Cordell’s score is presented in mono from tapes recently discovered by his estate. The Blu-ray also comes with a very informative and entertaining commentary track, and although the sound mix is straight stereo 2.0, it’s very punchy; co-commentator Nick Redman is spot-on in comparing its robustness to some of the stereo mixes on old laserdisc releases which often featured better sound that the first generation of DVD follow-ups. (It’s the main reason I still have\u00a0Exodus<\/strong> on laser – less digital noise reduction and better sound than MGM’s utterly meh DVD.)<\/p>\n

I’ll have reviews of Jess Franco’s\u00a0Bloody Moon<\/strong> and\u00a0Linda<\/strong> Friday.<\/p>\n

Cheers,<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
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