The 60th anniversary of Cinerama in 2012 came and went with the usual neglect of care given to this once-revolutionary film system. Unless it’s near Hollywood, that is. In addition to celebrating the town’s role as a company in its unique eccentric history, the six-decade milestone of Cinerama’s short-lived existence received as much attention from the rest of America as the announcement of a new philosophical direction discovered by Hans. Vaihinger.
Cinerama was one of the technological experiments in which the theatrical competition with free entertainment was hoped to be prepared by a new invention for most Americans during the 1950s: television. While 3D required special glasses that tried to produce images on the screen for the audience, Cinerama only required an investment of money by the theater owners in an effort to place the audience right in the picture. Cinerama combines a curved screen, multiple cameras interlaced with each other, and a complex system of projectors. When it came to Cinerama, peripheral vision was everything. The combined effect of screen, camera and projectors was intended to draw upon the human brain in a game to create a phantom perception of movement that was not actually there. Of course, if you’re going to go through all the trouble to make emotional sense, you’d better have a movie in motion rather than a black and white flick about a lonely butcher in love with a girl not nearly as ugly. to be led to believe.
A couple of movies at special movie theaters is likely to be rated as a movie that closes at or close to the number one box office a> attraction for both ages, as most of the films have never been seen. This “Cinerama” introduced the new TV owners in 1952 to the wide world of cinema which in small home panels could not be replicated. /a. > or flying over the top. Needless to say, “This Cinerama” was short on art and long on cheap csel. The way it made the concept itself convertible.
Less well known, but just as big of a hit at the box office during the 1950s was “Cinerama Fest”. Another experiment in scene-matching techniques rather than opposites, “Cinerama Holiday” may well have found its large audience in large part because Cinerama experiences are so few and far between. Filmmakers were still unsure of the future of this new technology and it was a few years before its technical potential was finally exploited for the arts rather than for performance. Despite the critical and commercial success of recent Cinerama films like “How the West Was Won”, the curved big screen was almost historic less than two decades after it was introduced.
The lack of theaters to show “This is Cinerama” and “Cinerama Festival” combined with the futility of screening them on TV essentially meant that two popular films of the 1950s almost disappeared.
