This is Cinerama (2011 Trailer)
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Posted by
Ross Melnick
on
May 4, 2011 at 11:32 am
Comments (7)
It is better to see the CINERAMA demo in FULL SCREEN. If you click on the 4 arrows in the bottom right hand corner to get FULL SCREEN it won’t work. If you click on the You Tube Logo and use that CINERAMA you can get the FULL SCREEN and a better idea of CINERAMA.
The black and white Lowell Thomas Prologue does not do CINERAMA justice. It was much longer and much smaller. When Lowell Thomas said “Ladies and Gentelmen, This Is CINERAMA” the curtains open to the left and right to show much more screen, but a curtain also raised above the Prolouge to show much more screen above the Prolouge, all part of the CINERAMA Showmanship.
When Lowell Thomas said CINERAMA in mono the next sound was in stero, black and white turned to Technicolor, a small sorta square screen turned to a really wide screen that was really curved so much so that you saw the movie out of the corner of you eyes.
For the first time, when you “rode” that roller coaster or “rode” that plane on the screen you felt it in your stomach. CINERAMA put you in the picture!
I remember when “THIS IS CINERAMA” was presented at the Ziegfeld theatre back in the 1970’s. I was there for its first showing. Before the movie began, the elderly Lowell Thomas, with two pretty girls at his side, took a bow from the front of the auditorium.
The actual opening of the Cinerama introduction trailer gave and still gives me goosebumps. Then, to experience the curtains and picture, sweeping wider and wider and wider is pure showbiz at its zenith. The awesome 91-foot screen and glorious sound in Salt Lake City’s Villa Theatre left one breathless!
I have heard the when Cinerama was run at the Crescent in Nashville people got sick when the roller coaster parts were shown,it was so life like.Interesting video.
The Blu-ray release of “How the West Was Won” includes a fantastic history of Cinerama. It’s magnificent on a big TV. Worth the price of the movie. And HTWWW restored, with the Cinerama dividing lines removed is breathtaking.
Oh, wow!! I’d love it if the big Cinerama movie theatres would re-open! I wonder how a film like West Side Story would look on Cinerama!
have never had the chance to see this film but from sources I have read over the years the film is a minor classic which sadly I think is in legal rights hell