Visions of Grandeur I The Big Trail, shot by ASC co-founder Arthur Edeson in the 70mm Grandeur format, turns 85. By Jason Apuzzo *|* 82 April 2015 t was the movie that made John Wayne a star - and nearly ruined his career. It was the most ambitious Western of its time - and nearly ended the genre for good. It's a movie about which everything was genuinely big, from its 70mm Grandeur cameras, to its payroll of 20,000 extras and five separate casts, to its epic behind-the-scenes tales of Prohibition-era carousing. It was director Raoul Walsh's sprawling, rambunctious 1930 feature, The Big Trail, and nothing about it was small - including its legacy. American Cinematographer