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cinerama
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Cinerama is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35 mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen, subtending 146° of arc. The trademarked process was marketed by the Cinerama corporation. It was ...
Usage examples of cinerama.
The first and last time I saw This Is Cinerama was in 1956 on a family trip to Chicago.
We went all over the world, for This Is Cinerama wasn't a movie in a conventional sense but a travelogue designed to show this wonder of the age to best effect.
I hadn't been here before, so I couldn't think why this should be, and then I realized that a regimental tattoo from Edinburgh Castle had been one of the features of This Is Cinerama back in Bradford.
Nevertheless, the existing manuscript, together with his own salesmanship, allowed Stanley to set up the deal with MGM and Cinerama, and "Journey Beyond the Stars" was announced with a flourish of trumpets.
Even if the first showing is in April 1967 [It was actually April 1968] it will be running only in a few Cinerama houses, which will give us some more breathing space.
If the manager of the handsome Cooper Cinerama did oblige, I shall be happy to reimburse him.
It was as if a movie projectionist had just realized he was using the wrong lens and switched, turning boxy thirty-five millimeter into wide-screen Cinerama 70.
You tell me, Bill — has that picture somehow gone from ordinary screen size to Cinerama 70, or is that just my imagination?
First, sound, then colour, then stereoscopy, then Cinerama, had made the old "moving pictures" more and more like reality itself.