In light of recent news, I thought it might be cool to post some footage from one of my favourite films, Trinity & Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie. Originally released in 1995, Trinity was directed by Peter Kuran, who’s best known for his visual effects work on the Star Wars films. Narrated by William Shatner, the film documents the nuclear arms race as the U.S. and Russia attempt to create the worlds most powerful weapon. Kuran managed to get a hold of recently declassified military archival film footage and used his special effects knowledge and resources to completely remaster the 40-50 year old images. The result is an amazingly powerful look at what was a pretty crazy moment in history that’s unfortunately become relevant yet again. The awesome images are perfectly complimented by the original soundtrack, composed by William T. Stromberg and performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. The film is currently available on DVD (along with its two sequels: Nukes in Space and Atomic Journeys). The good news is apparently there’s an HD-DVD version of the film on the horizon. I sort of stumbled across this news while looking for a trailer on Youtube. I guess an HD version of Trinity actually aired on Discover HD recently, and according to HiDefDVD.com, should be available on October 24th to those few people who actually have HD-DVD systems. Actually, this would probably be one of the few available HD films I would be excited to own. Anyways, have a look at the trailer below and definitely keep your eyes peeled for this release in the future.
Trinity & Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie Coming To HD-DVD
10.18.06 | by Jay C | 5 Comments
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I’d love to see this movie. I remember watching documentaries on Discovery about how they would experiment with putting soldiers closer and closer to nuclear blasts, to analyze the side effects and how that horrified me as a child.
Not at all interested in HD though. I love my dvd’s and I want studios to keep producing them damnit.
The movie is incredible, but i want to know the film resolution, please.
I believe the film resolution should appropriately recreate the original atomo-vision format, minus the radio-active side effects.
Actually it’s looking like it’s not an actual HD-DVD, but rather a new anniversary edition that features some new footage shot with hi-definition cameras.
To save people the trouble of looking at the second google hit for “trinity atomic bomb movie hdtv”, here’s a quote from the Discovery HD site about the quality of the film. Sounds to me like it’s as much HD as a historic clip can be:
How the Film Was Made
The original film was transferred to HD using a unique state-of-the-art process described below by Kuran: “The transfer was made from a 35 mm Interpositive at Technicolor Creative services in Hollywood using a Thomson/Spirit Datacine (telecine machine). Transferred at 1920×2980/23.98 (24p) progressively scanned and color corrected by Senior colorist Gary Barron at Technicolor. Recorded to a D5 with 4:4:4 color space (highest color quality currently available). Including Interior Gallery digital still store (for maintaining color integrity an balance throughout film). The film was then converted into a large 10-bit uncompressed Quicktime movie (about 880 GB) and further clean up and enhancements were done.”