15-perf 70mm — sometimes written 15/70 — is a film format. Each frame measures roughly 70mm × 52mm — about the size of a business card and nearly ten times the area of a standard 35mm frame — exposed across fifteen perforations of 70mm stock running horizontally through the camera. It is the format used in IMAX-built theaters, and it remains the highest-resolution image ever recorded for theatrical projection: roughly 18K of pure analog detail, projected on a screen tall enough to fill the human field of view. There is no digital equivalent. There is, arguably, no equal.
Industry consensus calls 15-perf 70mm the gold standard for film projection. Filmmakers who care about the image — really care — know it. They fight for it.
Ryan Coogler
Championed it for Sinners ↗.
Christopher Nolan
Filmed in Oppenheimer.
Quentin Tarantino
Shot in The Hateful Eight.
Paul Thomas Anderson
Composed in The Master.
When Ryan Coogler released Sinners in 2025, he made a now-viral video walking through every theatrical format the film was available in — and he was unambiguous about which one was the ultimate way to see his work: 15-perf 70mm IMAX. Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, and Paul Thomas Anderson have all done the same in their own ways. The format is rare. It is expensive. It is hard to project. And it is, by consensus, the best.
We named this company The 1570 in homage to that standard. Not because we are making films. We aren't. We're ranking video — AI-generated, AI-assisted, and everything in between, in a category that is exploding past the point where any individual can keep up. But the spirit is the same: there is a difference between watching whatever is fed to you, and watching the best.
This is the ranking standard for people who care about that difference.
“15-perf 70mm is the format you reach for when nothing else will do. We named this company after it because the same instinct should apply to ranking the best video of the AI era — refuse to settle, audit the standard, and let the work earn its place.”
The Billboard analogy.
Billboard didn't invent the songs on the Hot 100. It invented the standard for ranking them. Sixty-seven years later, when a label, a streaming service, a brand partner, or a radio station wants to know what's actually winning that week, they look at the same number.
The 1570 is the same idea, refactored for video in the AI era. Ranked by the people who make it. Audited continuously. Updated every Tuesday. Free for everyone to read.