I had the opportunity to see Abel Gance's production of "Napoleon" as a press screening. Originally made in 1927, the format was the squareiish 1.33:1/1.37:1 ratio for all but the last reel. The last reel displayed a forerunner of 3-strip Cinerama. It was projected using an anamorphic lens and depicted the final battle. Three separate views of the battle played together, on 35mm film complete with the separation lines of the images much like the 3-strip format.

@debranchelowtone

Ай бұрын

Polyvision does not use anamorphic lens originally but 3 projectors.

Excellent overview of Cinerama and the 70mm format that came after!!

@CallumVandenberg

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I think the latest Cinerama is a movie theater with a digital screen equipped with 16K micro LEDs arranged on a curved surface for exclusive use of images, modeled after the Sphere built in Las Vegas. You should be able to easily create this shot using Apple Vision Pro. Therefore, I would like them to build a new Cinerama theater in Hollywood and then expand it internationally.

Movie poster that you show at 0:43 is from the 70mm re-release of This is Cinerama in 1973. The picture you show at 1:48 is from 1957 Raintree County in the MGM Camera 65 process that was converted to 3-strip Cinerama for How The West Was Won.

I got to go there in Hollywood 4 different times and my father knew the head projectist there and was able to be in the projection center booth. Watched how they started up the films.

@CallumVandenberg

9 ай бұрын

Very cool!

Bring 70MMCinerama back to save movie theatres from closing every where.

Gracias por tu vídeo, estaba investigando porque en Caracas Venezuela hubo una sala de cine muy famosa con esta tecnología inagurada en 1957. Primera de toda Latinoamérica

Thank you so much for this video!

@CallumVandenberg

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I really love your channel and it would be awesome if you could make a video essay on CinemaScope.🙌🔥🙌🔥🙌🔥

@CallumVandenberg

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! That's definitely a video I have coming soon.

@TheAlexisBrownChannel

2 жыл бұрын

@@CallumVandenberg Oh, that’s great! I can’t wait to see it.

Very interesting, although having single words appear on the screen as they are spoken was irritating. I saw How The West Was Won in a Cinerama theatre. Very impressive. I now have the blu ray where the ‘joints’ have been [almost] digitally removed. Just checked your video listing and there are lots more to watch!

Ninguna de las peliculas en formato ancho que se filman y proyectan hoy día tienen la calidad de imagen ni la espectacularidad que tuvieron el cinerama y las películas rodadas en 70 mm.

@Edubarca46

9 ай бұрын

Tienes toda la razón, el Cinerama fur una tecnología única que ofrecía lo que ningún otro sistema de pantalla panorámica como Cinemascope etc. podía ofrecer. Acá en Bogotá nos llegó un poco tarde, en 1964, pero fue un éxito descomunal. Es cierto que tenía defectos pero era tan, tan espectacular que uno ni se daba cuenta de esos defectos. Era todo un espectáculo, la apertura de la cortina, el sonido stereo, etc, sensacional. Jamás la olvidaré.

Interesting….

Could you compare the following?...... Cinerama Cinemascope and Vista ition.

I know cinerama has its problems but I do admit I like it but I have never seen it on the big screen as I live in the uk 🇬🇧 I think they is only one but I don’t think it’s still operational 😢

@CallumVandenberg

6 ай бұрын

Seeing a Cinerama film on a Cinerama screen would be really cool! Unfortunately, It seems like Los Angeles is becoming the only place to see films like that.

But 70 mm existed in 1931, wasn't successful. Fox Grandeur. Fun fact, 20th Century Fox used the name and the old equipment

Imax large square screen, you mean and today phony max.

@vgmaster9

Жыл бұрын

Wanna see a Cinerama style IMAX theater where some scenes use three IMAX cameras at the same time.

Soviet Union copied Cinerama, so they could show a Cinerama movie about Russia, with sleigh ride, dance performances and showing the nature of the Soviet Union.

@CallumVandenberg

7 ай бұрын

Very interesting!

@debranchelowtone

Ай бұрын

Kinopanorama.