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How ‘Pink Floyd at Pompeii’ Found New, Brilliant Life as an IMAX Film
"Pink Floyd at Pompeii," the concert film first released in 1972, became an IMAX movie after first-cut negatives were found. Here's how it happened.
And while the version shown at select IMAX theatres contains no revelatory content — “People have already seen it,” Blake says — it’s startlingly vibrant, the Italian sky impossibly blue, the multicolored butterflies on Mason’s T-shirts poised to float into real life. (The new version is also a boon for Sony Music, which purchased some of Pink Floyd’s recorded-music assets last October for $400 million and now owns the rights to the film; the new release will also likely improve the band’s streaming numbers and social-media views.) “The problem with working from a print is there are limitations of what you can do, restoration-wise,” Topham says, describing Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII as having “a three-dimensional feeling” that brings to life even trivial details such as “the logo on the speakers and the red tape on Nick’s drumkit.”
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