Definitely an eye opener for those wo like the real history of cinema as a unique art
@stampeaceful4 ай бұрын
CinemaScope and VistaVision were developed around the same time. Cinerama was a different, more complex process, and arguably superior, but they all resulted in widescreen films presented in theatres in the early 50s. But whereas less than a couple dozen films were shown in Cinerama, hundreds were presented in CinemaScope.
@user-yk7yv8rb5i7 ай бұрын
I love Cinerama ❤
@fredemny33049 ай бұрын
Who added the cheesy piano track? I don't remember it being in the original showing that I saw?
@REVAN233811 ай бұрын
Wish it would come back
@johnw.fordphotography4268 Жыл бұрын
how put this piano shit music
@jeffweiler4095 Жыл бұрын
Fascinating indeed. The poor piano music track is decidedly distracting and is a detriment to an otherwise captivating documentary, however.
@Tmanaz480 Жыл бұрын
I feel so lucky to have seen real Cinerama at the Seattle Cinerama before it shut down.
@simon8290 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing, it made me cry.
@peterlogan1623 Жыл бұрын
as an ex Cinerama projectionist I thank you for making this documentary. As a matter of interest I still have a small roll of film stock from How the West Was Won. That is one third of it.
@anadverb5063 Жыл бұрын
I've been looking for this film everywhere. If anyone knows where I can purchase it please respond.
@musicomanosmusicmanagement Жыл бұрын
The piano music is very boring!
@thomasmiller5057 Жыл бұрын
I’m so glad I got to see 2001 in, Apparently from reading the comments, Super Panavision at the Uptown Theatre by DC when they brought it back there in the mid 70s I also saw This Is Cinerama at the same theatre (I believe) either before or after that. They were movies I had to promote to my family and friends to go with me to see. The experience was Unforgettable! Only the Roller Coaster sequence at the beginning of TIC was exciting and the rest was spectacular but a test of my 13 year old attention span lol
@larryseibert4102 Жыл бұрын
At 19:40 Please tell me who made or makes that camera dolly?
@brianna_lynch Жыл бұрын
I’ve met Jon Hale a few times at Radiator Springs Racers. He’s a nice guy.
@gregfaris6959 Жыл бұрын
At 21:16, he says, "The only reason things get abandoned is if something..................cheaper or easier to use comes about!". I was just waiting for him to say "better" but instead he nailed it! Most technological advances are really developments for doing the same thing - or close to it - more cheaply! The consumer public have shown repeatedly they are willing to accept compromises in quality for better economy and convenience.
@chapsnaps12 жыл бұрын
Once you have seen a movie in Cinerama you never forget it. With modern digital photography the issues that negatively impacted Cinerama (the vertical stripes where the film projections met) could be eliminated. A digital Cinerama camera wouldn't suffer from the same degree of vibration, and would be much smaller than the original. Cinerama in its heyday and the later 360 degree projections at Epcot, were just awesome. Please, has someone got the vision and the deep pockets to do it again digitally? Worldwide distribution to multiple outlets would be impossible but people would travel to see this improved technology in theme parks. Once seen never forgotten.
@jacobschroder56692 жыл бұрын
this music video contains a real bad boy
@markblunck26922 жыл бұрын
I saw How the West Was Won in 1962, at the Indian Hills Cinerama Theater in Omaha, NE. I recall at seven years old, asking my Dad, "Why are there vertical lines in the screen?" He gave me a good quick answer. As a 2001: a space odyssey fan, I have had to correct several people who claim they saw that film in 3-strip format. I watched about half of this excellent documentary but had to stop. Why? That loud annoying back ground music was wearing me out! OK to have some music but, my gawd, turn it down. A major distraction. I do look forward to watching the rest. Looks great!
@Meteotrance2 жыл бұрын
Can be fun to try a 3 strip 35mm cgi movie like a Pixar one we just need to make 3 render with the good aspect ratio for each virtual camera and the process can be seamless or even transfert with a 70 mm print with a wide angle lens.
@robfriedrich28222 жыл бұрын
With today's technology you could shot with 3 cameras and assemble the panels to a 8 k picture.
@robfriedrich28222 жыл бұрын
Cinerama wasn't the first, Fox Grandeur from 1930 was first, well few movies only and few theaters and no success
@genedryer-bivins83142 жыл бұрын
My mom took me to see The Seven Wonders of the World in Cinerama on my 10th birthday, and later I saw How The West Was Won at the original Warner Hollywood Cinerame theater, the same one I'd been to in 1956. This is a wonderful short documentary both showing a new audience how it was done and recreating the experience by shooting it in 3-strip Cinerama. And now this is 10 years old! Time keeps on slippin' into the future!
@LRBeforeTheInternet2 жыл бұрын
Well, I doubt anyone has ever been "faster than Pryor on fire", and I won't call you "master", but thanks, I guess. :)
@garima24732 жыл бұрын
This is genius 🎥
@pmajudge2 жыл бұрын
I REMEMBER THIS FORMAT -- WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS CONCEPT ????? FROM U.K. (2021).
@derekheeps12442 жыл бұрын
Brilliant : I LOVE to see old technology being revived - WELL DONE ! I have a couple of thoughts : it ought now to be possible to mount three digital cinema cameras onto a plate in the same relationship as the three elements of the Cinerama camera , using prime lenses , to obtain the same perspective . This would have the advantage of being much lighter , and SILENT , so you could record live sound . Instead of peering through the viewfinder , you could have three monitors on the rig , showing what each camera is seeing , angled so as to approximate what would be projected ; then present in a Cinerama venue using three digital projectors ; editing the three channels ought to be not much harder than a single one in any of the currently available editors . Second , has anyone thought of making a cartoon in Cinerama ; it would no doubt be a masterpiece of CGI , but could Disney , for example , make a Cinerama version of Cars , screened in 3 strip Cinerama , using 3 digital projectors ? Same with Planes , or classics like Roadrunner and Wile-E-Coyote ... For new material to shoot ; how about a digital Cinerama shoot of something like a NASCAR race with a forward and reverse camera running on the track ? Could something like three Go-Pros be configured into a fighter jet to get some Top Gun style sequences ( with Go-Pros you could probably shoot Cinerama style footage with an extremely compact rig , only needing a small 'fishplate' to keep the three cameras correctly aligned ) ; same with some highway footage with such a rig on a motorcycle . How about mimicking famous movie scenes ? The Mount Rushmore scenes from North by Northwest ( could you shoot the backgrounds again and drop Cary Grant into the Cinerama background ? Maybe that's asking too much ) ; films like Vertigo , or The Birds , where the stars are running down the street being attacked by birds ( how did Hitchcock do that ? ) . Could you get a Go-Pro Cinerama kit onto Space-X to get some orbital Cinerama footage ? That would be the most impressive thing ever . How would some footage of earth from space look on a Cinerama screen - that would be right up there with the original Cinerama promo films . Going back to old technology ... how amazing would a 65mm Cinerama camera be ?
@peterallan71402 жыл бұрын
How can such an interesting and professional video have such AWFUL background amateur piano music ! It completely ruins the documentary.
@fredemny33049 ай бұрын
It wasn't in the original when I saw it. Some idiot saw fit to add it at a later date. It makes a complete mockery of a serious documentary. 😟
@jonflanny2 жыл бұрын
Where is this full documentary? It used to be on KZread
@joerogers42273 жыл бұрын
I remember "How the West Was Won". I also saw the first Cinerama film in the 50's. I also was a projectionist. I showed many 35mm films also worked with a combo 35 and 70 mm projector. I also remember CinemaScope with its anamorphic lens adapter.
@joerogers42273 жыл бұрын
I was in grade school in the 50's and our school had a special field trip to Cincinnati. It was the first film with Lowel thomas and I remember the roller coaster scene.
@thebokumarulab3 жыл бұрын
Why has this wonderful film been removed from KZread? I’ve watched it like four times, so interesting.
@bruce921063 жыл бұрын
All's I will say is this: The Cinerama better NEVER be torn down or even closed down much longer. This is an icon of Hollywood and these mealy mouthed LA leaders better step up NOW. We've had enough iconic LA landmarks losses over bad decision making all in the name of squeezing more of the unwanted's in.
@susanwaltho41513 жыл бұрын
Have seen three strip cinerama great
@NewMediaFormat3 жыл бұрын
My Brother was an Extra in "Brothers Grim".. MGM gave everyone (And Family) Passes for the Premier .. I was 8 years Old and saw The CINERAMA presentation of the Movie >> Hooked me for the rest of my life!
@CH-eg7kr3 жыл бұрын
Zerk Supper sent me.
@andysummersthxcinemaandmyc77483 жыл бұрын
so when is this cinema gonna be demolished into rubble to make way for new homes for the homeless as cinema is non-essential.
@Edubarca463 жыл бұрын
How much we love Cinerama. . I can remember the famous roller coaster scene and several other incredible moments of this one of a kind movie system. Congratulations to you all nice people who love the system and want to keep it alive as long as possible.
@davidcarlin38503 жыл бұрын
Love everything about this
@WhoFlungPoo20243 жыл бұрын
Saw HTWWW at Denver's Cooper Cinerama theater 3-4 times as a kid in the mid-60's. The film and sound were an incredible experience and the last time I was there, I was able to beg a tour of the Baker projection booth before the show started. What a lesson! Later, I went onto become an IA projectionist and worked both in Norfolk and Tulsa as a 35-mm operator. In 1999, I visited Denver and was able to spend several hours with two of the Denver Cooper's former projectionists, Chuck Weber and John Rabe, both now deceased. I transcribed our discussion and if interested, you can read it here: iatse354.org/denver.htm . There's now a good deal of information on the projection aspects of Cinerama, inside the Library of Congress' Media Digital Library in the "International Projectionist" publication list at mediahistoryproject.org/technical/index.html . If you're a Cinerama aficionado, it's well worth your time. Check the editions generally from 1952 onward. And more than anything, thanks for this great documentary and kudos to the folks that are preserving this format of motion picture production. As the saying goes, "You had to see it to believe it."
@marklatimer73333 жыл бұрын
Had to stop watching at 6:00 because of the 4 year old banging on the Piano, for Christ's sake forget what they told you at Film School, you don't need music when people are talking!
@rpk55683 жыл бұрын
The idea of three strip Technicolor Cinerama is mind boggling.
@ericthemauve3 жыл бұрын
What braindead idiot decided to add the godawful piano music to the soundtrack? It's irritating, distracting, and totally unnecessary!
@jslasher13 жыл бұрын
A good many of you conveniently forget that Fifth Continent Australia P/L shot a couple of short-subject 3-strip films in Kinopanorama® as far back as 1995. The first one, titled "Bounty". was screened in Bradford UK in 1996. The Cinerama endeavour was produced some 17-years after the fact.
@saidtheactress3 жыл бұрын
From my experience the cons far outway the pros of Cinerama.
@jslasher13 жыл бұрын
You are more than correct, Mr Borg. This is why the Soviets re-designed the first Kinopanorama® camera [a clone of the first and only Cinerama camera], and introduced the PSO-1960 camera, with interchangeable focal-length lenses, in 1961. This camera, despite some flaws, is still in use today [despite being put back in storage at present due to COVID-19 restrictions].
@johnberkley69423 жыл бұрын
I remember being absolutely devastated when my Mum dropped me off at the Cinerama theatre in Auckland, New Zealand, to see a matinee showing of 'The Brothers Grimm' -- only to be turned away (after Mum had left!) because it was sold out. So I went up the road to the Civic (the theatre used by Peter Jackso0n in his King Kong remake) to see something entirely child-unsuitable with Paul Newman in it, I believe. I managed to get in to see 'The Brothers Grimm' another day. Yes, it was pretty spectacular -- if you happened to be sitting in the 'sweet spot'. If you weren't, the action galloped into and out of frame in a seasick parabolic sweep. There was also the problem of the projectors going in and out of sync with each other. A much more satisfying experience: seeing a 70mm print of '2001: A Space Odyssey' with fabulous stereo sound, probably ten years later in the same refitted theatre. Nothing quite like seeing that particular Kubrick film on a gigantic screen.
@abhilekhR13 жыл бұрын
Where is the film where we can watch what you shoot.
@manoeljeneci6073 жыл бұрын
2.76 the Best cinerama
@DGaryGrady3 жыл бұрын
A few picky points: When optical sound on film was introduced it took up 2 mm of the picture area and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science decreed a new projection gate aperture that would also be 2mm shorter, replacing the classic silent movie ratio of 1.33:1 with 1.375: 1 (often written 1.37:1). That is Academy Aperture or Academy Ratio. Credible technical sources I've seen say the original 3-panel Cinerama had as aspect ratio of 2.59:1:1, not 2.76:1 as this film says. However, 2.76:1 was the ratio of Ultra Panavision 70, a single-strip process with anamorphic squeeze like Cinemascope (but less). Since Ultra Panavision 70 releases were often shown in Cinerama theaters and advertised as "Cinerama," an impression arose that true Cinerama was that ratio as well. (And to be fair, the difference isn't obvious.) While I'm at it, the vast majority of Cinemascope films were intended for 2.35:1 projection, but the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) changed the anamorphic projection ratio to 2.39:1 in 1970, and that has been the standard ever since, including for the wider of the two DCI projection aspect ratio standards, no matter how may DVD cases and IMDb entries say "2.35:1." Of course, other ratios are easily achievable by cropping the image, and in practice many real-world theaters deviate from the official standards in their screen dimensions.
@wtxrailfan3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, because some Internet troll commenting on KZread knows more about it than the people actually making the Cinerama movie.
@DGaryGrady3 жыл бұрын
@@wtxrailfan I'm sure the people who shot the film have vastly more practical knowledge of the subject than I ever will, but at the same time, back when I shot film and video for a living I didn't know every technical detail of the equipment I was using and most of the time it wasn't necessary. (And I'm still learning.) You might find these technical specs for Cinerama interesting: www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/cinerama_specs.htm . If you can point to a specific mistake in what I wrote I would sincerely appreciate any corrections
@pawfan3 жыл бұрын
Cinerama is not completely gone. It's just on a temporary hiatus till another deep pocketed visionary comes along who can afford to acquire ownership of Cinerama and continue the research and development of it, and move it forward into the twenty first century as a digital medium that is also backwards compatible with its former medium. It'll be back...Never to go away again! But be back to stay! IMAX is okay when done right. But Cinerama is "Da BOMB"! The best medium ever used!
@jslasher13 жыл бұрын
Talk is cheap, but money is expensive. Of course, it would be great it see it return.
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Definitely an eye opener for those wo like the real history of cinema as a unique art
CinemaScope and VistaVision were developed around the same time. Cinerama was a different, more complex process, and arguably superior, but they all resulted in widescreen films presented in theatres in the early 50s. But whereas less than a couple dozen films were shown in Cinerama, hundreds were presented in CinemaScope.
I love Cinerama ❤
Who added the cheesy piano track? I don't remember it being in the original showing that I saw?
Wish it would come back
how put this piano shit music
Fascinating indeed. The poor piano music track is decidedly distracting and is a detriment to an otherwise captivating documentary, however.
I feel so lucky to have seen real Cinerama at the Seattle Cinerama before it shut down.
Thank you for sharing, it made me cry.
as an ex Cinerama projectionist I thank you for making this documentary. As a matter of interest I still have a small roll of film stock from How the West Was Won. That is one third of it.
I've been looking for this film everywhere. If anyone knows where I can purchase it please respond.
The piano music is very boring!
I’m so glad I got to see 2001 in, Apparently from reading the comments, Super Panavision at the Uptown Theatre by DC when they brought it back there in the mid 70s I also saw This Is Cinerama at the same theatre (I believe) either before or after that. They were movies I had to promote to my family and friends to go with me to see. The experience was Unforgettable! Only the Roller Coaster sequence at the beginning of TIC was exciting and the rest was spectacular but a test of my 13 year old attention span lol
At 19:40 Please tell me who made or makes that camera dolly?
I’ve met Jon Hale a few times at Radiator Springs Racers. He’s a nice guy.
At 21:16, he says, "The only reason things get abandoned is if something..................cheaper or easier to use comes about!". I was just waiting for him to say "better" but instead he nailed it! Most technological advances are really developments for doing the same thing - or close to it - more cheaply! The consumer public have shown repeatedly they are willing to accept compromises in quality for better economy and convenience.
Once you have seen a movie in Cinerama you never forget it. With modern digital photography the issues that negatively impacted Cinerama (the vertical stripes where the film projections met) could be eliminated. A digital Cinerama camera wouldn't suffer from the same degree of vibration, and would be much smaller than the original. Cinerama in its heyday and the later 360 degree projections at Epcot, were just awesome. Please, has someone got the vision and the deep pockets to do it again digitally? Worldwide distribution to multiple outlets would be impossible but people would travel to see this improved technology in theme parks. Once seen never forgotten.
this music video contains a real bad boy
I saw How the West Was Won in 1962, at the Indian Hills Cinerama Theater in Omaha, NE. I recall at seven years old, asking my Dad, "Why are there vertical lines in the screen?" He gave me a good quick answer. As a 2001: a space odyssey fan, I have had to correct several people who claim they saw that film in 3-strip format. I watched about half of this excellent documentary but had to stop. Why? That loud annoying back ground music was wearing me out! OK to have some music but, my gawd, turn it down. A major distraction. I do look forward to watching the rest. Looks great!
Can be fun to try a 3 strip 35mm cgi movie like a Pixar one we just need to make 3 render with the good aspect ratio for each virtual camera and the process can be seamless or even transfert with a 70 mm print with a wide angle lens.
With today's technology you could shot with 3 cameras and assemble the panels to a 8 k picture.
Cinerama wasn't the first, Fox Grandeur from 1930 was first, well few movies only and few theaters and no success
My mom took me to see The Seven Wonders of the World in Cinerama on my 10th birthday, and later I saw How The West Was Won at the original Warner Hollywood Cinerame theater, the same one I'd been to in 1956. This is a wonderful short documentary both showing a new audience how it was done and recreating the experience by shooting it in 3-strip Cinerama. And now this is 10 years old! Time keeps on slippin' into the future!
Well, I doubt anyone has ever been "faster than Pryor on fire", and I won't call you "master", but thanks, I guess. :)
This is genius 🎥
I REMEMBER THIS FORMAT -- WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS CONCEPT ????? FROM U.K. (2021).
Brilliant : I LOVE to see old technology being revived - WELL DONE ! I have a couple of thoughts : it ought now to be possible to mount three digital cinema cameras onto a plate in the same relationship as the three elements of the Cinerama camera , using prime lenses , to obtain the same perspective . This would have the advantage of being much lighter , and SILENT , so you could record live sound . Instead of peering through the viewfinder , you could have three monitors on the rig , showing what each camera is seeing , angled so as to approximate what would be projected ; then present in a Cinerama venue using three digital projectors ; editing the three channels ought to be not much harder than a single one in any of the currently available editors . Second , has anyone thought of making a cartoon in Cinerama ; it would no doubt be a masterpiece of CGI , but could Disney , for example , make a Cinerama version of Cars , screened in 3 strip Cinerama , using 3 digital projectors ? Same with Planes , or classics like Roadrunner and Wile-E-Coyote ... For new material to shoot ; how about a digital Cinerama shoot of something like a NASCAR race with a forward and reverse camera running on the track ? Could something like three Go-Pros be configured into a fighter jet to get some Top Gun style sequences ( with Go-Pros you could probably shoot Cinerama style footage with an extremely compact rig , only needing a small 'fishplate' to keep the three cameras correctly aligned ) ; same with some highway footage with such a rig on a motorcycle . How about mimicking famous movie scenes ? The Mount Rushmore scenes from North by Northwest ( could you shoot the backgrounds again and drop Cary Grant into the Cinerama background ? Maybe that's asking too much ) ; films like Vertigo , or The Birds , where the stars are running down the street being attacked by birds ( how did Hitchcock do that ? ) . Could you get a Go-Pro Cinerama kit onto Space-X to get some orbital Cinerama footage ? That would be the most impressive thing ever . How would some footage of earth from space look on a Cinerama screen - that would be right up there with the original Cinerama promo films . Going back to old technology ... how amazing would a 65mm Cinerama camera be ?
How can such an interesting and professional video have such AWFUL background amateur piano music ! It completely ruins the documentary.
It wasn't in the original when I saw it. Some idiot saw fit to add it at a later date. It makes a complete mockery of a serious documentary. 😟
Where is this full documentary? It used to be on KZread
I remember "How the West Was Won". I also saw the first Cinerama film in the 50's. I also was a projectionist. I showed many 35mm films also worked with a combo 35 and 70 mm projector. I also remember CinemaScope with its anamorphic lens adapter.
I was in grade school in the 50's and our school had a special field trip to Cincinnati. It was the first film with Lowel thomas and I remember the roller coaster scene.
Why has this wonderful film been removed from KZread? I’ve watched it like four times, so interesting.
All's I will say is this: The Cinerama better NEVER be torn down or even closed down much longer. This is an icon of Hollywood and these mealy mouthed LA leaders better step up NOW. We've had enough iconic LA landmarks losses over bad decision making all in the name of squeezing more of the unwanted's in.
Have seen three strip cinerama great
My Brother was an Extra in "Brothers Grim".. MGM gave everyone (And Family) Passes for the Premier .. I was 8 years Old and saw The CINERAMA presentation of the Movie >> Hooked me for the rest of my life!
Zerk Supper sent me.
so when is this cinema gonna be demolished into rubble to make way for new homes for the homeless as cinema is non-essential.
How much we love Cinerama. . I can remember the famous roller coaster scene and several other incredible moments of this one of a kind movie system. Congratulations to you all nice people who love the system and want to keep it alive as long as possible.
Love everything about this
Saw HTWWW at Denver's Cooper Cinerama theater 3-4 times as a kid in the mid-60's. The film and sound were an incredible experience and the last time I was there, I was able to beg a tour of the Baker projection booth before the show started. What a lesson! Later, I went onto become an IA projectionist and worked both in Norfolk and Tulsa as a 35-mm operator. In 1999, I visited Denver and was able to spend several hours with two of the Denver Cooper's former projectionists, Chuck Weber and John Rabe, both now deceased. I transcribed our discussion and if interested, you can read it here: iatse354.org/denver.htm . There's now a good deal of information on the projection aspects of Cinerama, inside the Library of Congress' Media Digital Library in the "International Projectionist" publication list at mediahistoryproject.org/technical/index.html . If you're a Cinerama aficionado, it's well worth your time. Check the editions generally from 1952 onward. And more than anything, thanks for this great documentary and kudos to the folks that are preserving this format of motion picture production. As the saying goes, "You had to see it to believe it."
Had to stop watching at 6:00 because of the 4 year old banging on the Piano, for Christ's sake forget what they told you at Film School, you don't need music when people are talking!
The idea of three strip Technicolor Cinerama is mind boggling.
What braindead idiot decided to add the godawful piano music to the soundtrack? It's irritating, distracting, and totally unnecessary!
A good many of you conveniently forget that Fifth Continent Australia P/L shot a couple of short-subject 3-strip films in Kinopanorama® as far back as 1995. The first one, titled "Bounty". was screened in Bradford UK in 1996. The Cinerama endeavour was produced some 17-years after the fact.
From my experience the cons far outway the pros of Cinerama.
You are more than correct, Mr Borg. This is why the Soviets re-designed the first Kinopanorama® camera [a clone of the first and only Cinerama camera], and introduced the PSO-1960 camera, with interchangeable focal-length lenses, in 1961. This camera, despite some flaws, is still in use today [despite being put back in storage at present due to COVID-19 restrictions].
I remember being absolutely devastated when my Mum dropped me off at the Cinerama theatre in Auckland, New Zealand, to see a matinee showing of 'The Brothers Grimm' -- only to be turned away (after Mum had left!) because it was sold out. So I went up the road to the Civic (the theatre used by Peter Jackso0n in his King Kong remake) to see something entirely child-unsuitable with Paul Newman in it, I believe. I managed to get in to see 'The Brothers Grimm' another day. Yes, it was pretty spectacular -- if you happened to be sitting in the 'sweet spot'. If you weren't, the action galloped into and out of frame in a seasick parabolic sweep. There was also the problem of the projectors going in and out of sync with each other. A much more satisfying experience: seeing a 70mm print of '2001: A Space Odyssey' with fabulous stereo sound, probably ten years later in the same refitted theatre. Nothing quite like seeing that particular Kubrick film on a gigantic screen.
Where is the film where we can watch what you shoot.
2.76 the Best cinerama
A few picky points: When optical sound on film was introduced it took up 2 mm of the picture area and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science decreed a new projection gate aperture that would also be 2mm shorter, replacing the classic silent movie ratio of 1.33:1 with 1.375: 1 (often written 1.37:1). That is Academy Aperture or Academy Ratio. Credible technical sources I've seen say the original 3-panel Cinerama had as aspect ratio of 2.59:1:1, not 2.76:1 as this film says. However, 2.76:1 was the ratio of Ultra Panavision 70, a single-strip process with anamorphic squeeze like Cinemascope (but less). Since Ultra Panavision 70 releases were often shown in Cinerama theaters and advertised as "Cinerama," an impression arose that true Cinerama was that ratio as well. (And to be fair, the difference isn't obvious.) While I'm at it, the vast majority of Cinemascope films were intended for 2.35:1 projection, but the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) changed the anamorphic projection ratio to 2.39:1 in 1970, and that has been the standard ever since, including for the wider of the two DCI projection aspect ratio standards, no matter how may DVD cases and IMDb entries say "2.35:1." Of course, other ratios are easily achievable by cropping the image, and in practice many real-world theaters deviate from the official standards in their screen dimensions.
Yeah, because some Internet troll commenting on KZread knows more about it than the people actually making the Cinerama movie.
@@wtxrailfan I'm sure the people who shot the film have vastly more practical knowledge of the subject than I ever will, but at the same time, back when I shot film and video for a living I didn't know every technical detail of the equipment I was using and most of the time it wasn't necessary. (And I'm still learning.) You might find these technical specs for Cinerama interesting: www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/cinerama_specs.htm . If you can point to a specific mistake in what I wrote I would sincerely appreciate any corrections
Cinerama is not completely gone. It's just on a temporary hiatus till another deep pocketed visionary comes along who can afford to acquire ownership of Cinerama and continue the research and development of it, and move it forward into the twenty first century as a digital medium that is also backwards compatible with its former medium. It'll be back...Never to go away again! But be back to stay! IMAX is okay when done right. But Cinerama is "Da BOMB"! The best medium ever used!
Talk is cheap, but money is expensive. Of course, it would be great it see it return.