Focal length used on opening shot of the sound of music

[Edith blazek]

hello, does anyone know the focal length or just what lens was used on this shot? This shot, the opening shot of the sound of music?

I know they used Cooke lenses on this movie that could cover the 65mm Todd ao format used for this film, but I don't know if they used a special lens for this shot would've went wider than what the 30mm Cooke double panchro could do, so if anyone has more information on what lens was used for this shot let me know

[Edith blazek]

Bump

[M Joel W]

It looks longer to me than that actually. Space is a bit compressed with the mountains behind. So if 30mm is equivalent to maybe a 16mm on S35, I'd expect something longer.

Edited December 6, 2022 by M Joel W

[Tyler Purcell]

A 30mm lens on a 65mm 5 perf camera is very wide. 

[David Mullen ASC]

By coincidence, I visited Garrison, NY where the Yonkers scenes were shot in Todd-AO for "Hello, Dolly!" in 1968 and most of my full-frame Nikon stills (mostly around 30mm on the zoom) matched the frames at a 40mm equivalent to 5-perf 65mm.  Then I asked Roy Wagner, ASC about the shoot and he said they had a very wide-angle 30mm, a normal wide-angle 40mm, and a 66mm and 75mm. Plus a zoom. So I'm guessing that the 40mm was the go-to lens for moderately wide-angle shots (the equivalent of shooting on a 20mm lens in Super-35.)

[David Mullen ASC]

[David Mullen ASC]