70 mm Todd-AO
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Search complete. 11 mentions across 2 episodes found for "70 mm Todd-AO".
Oct 15, 2026
71 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
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67:02ZachGUEST
Too much.
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67:03SarahHOST
I thought they used that in Around the World in 80 Days, although are you familiar with the Todd-AO camera?
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67:07ZachGUEST
camera?I'm not?
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67:09SarahHOST
[laughs]
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67:09AdamHOST
The Todd-AO camera?
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67:10SarahHOST
The Todd-AO camera.
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67:12AdamHOST
Tell me.
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67:13SarahHOST
Yes.
GUEST EPISODE! Cleopatra (1963) with the Partial Historians, Part 2: Cleopatra and Mark Antony
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4:48speaker_0HOST
It was too rainy." Like, there's just endless delays where they can't film what they were intending to.
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4:55speaker_0HOST
Or there was even one instance where they shot a scene between Antony and Cleopatra, and one of the issues they faced was that they were filming in this Todd-AO cinematic style, one of these widescreen technologies.
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5:09speaker_0HOST
And this is partly because it benefits Elizabeth Taylor because who invented Todd-AO? Why, her third husband, Mike Todd, who died tragically in a plane crash.
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5:19speaker_0HOST
That wasn't nice, but it did mean that she inherited his Todd-AO filming method.
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5:24speaker_0HOST
But it's an incredibly cumbersome way to film, and none of the Italians', uh, studios have a way of actually processing the film, viewing the film, et cetera.
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5:34speaker_0HOST
So what they would have to do is every time they shot something, they had to fly it back to America to get processed, et cetera.