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20th Century-Fox

posted 14 years ago by shulma2002
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I always resented that this film never showed a 20th Century-Fox logo at the films' beginning. Instead it said "Magna". I know it had something to do with the film being in Todd-AO but so were "Can-Can" as well as "Cleopatra" and they included the Fox logo. Also, Shamroy over-used the color filters excessively. It ruined the "Beach Scene" as it was shot through a yellow filter. It was great for "Bali Ha'i and maybe "Younger Than Springtime" in a blue filter but the daylight scenes were ruined.

[–] rorysa 14 years ago

I believe that Magna was the original distributor of this film (as well as being its producer), releasing 35mm prints. Fox was involved in the re-release, issuing both 70mm and 35mm prints (Fox both produced and distributed the films you mention, and no other companies were involved, to my knowledge). Goldwyn was involved in a subsequent re-release.

Magna Corporation, of which R & H were principal shareholders, developed Todd-AO with American Optical, originally for "Oklahoma!".

By the way, some have argued that since a Panavision lens was used to film SP, rather than a Todd-AO lens, this technically should have been referred to as a Super Panavision 70 film.

The color filters have been the subject of extensive discussion on this board.

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[–] dmnemaine 14 years ago

"South Pacific" was not a 20th Century Fox production. They only distributed the film. That's why there was no logo.

[–] dmnemaine 8 years ago

South Pacific was not a Fox production. It was a Rodgers and Hammerstein production. Fox was the distributor.