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Defunct. 1975; 49 years ago. ( 1975) Services. Theatrical films distribution. Parent. Cinerama. Cinerama Releasing Corporation ( CRC) was a motion picture company established in 1967 that originally released films produced by its namesake parent company that was considered an "instant major". [li 1]
- 1975; 48 years ago
- Filmed entertainment
- 1966; 57 years ago
- Cinerama
Background. Cinerama Releasing Corporation was founded in 1967 as a subsidiary of Cinerama Inc., owner of the Cinerama format (invented by Fred Waller). It distributed its own films (some of which were actually not filmed in Cinerama, but in Super Panavision, Ultra Panavision and Todd-AO, and converted to be played on the curved Cinerama screen), foreign films and films produced by ABC ...
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The company's films were distributed by Cinerama Releasing Corporation. History. ABC Pictures was started as a division in 1965 and was incorporated as ABC Picture Holdings, Inc. on November 3, 1967 (). In 1968, it activated Palomar Pictures and Selmur Pictures to produce pictures for it.
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Process and production
Cinerama was invented by Fred Waller (1886–1954) and languished in the laboratory for several years before Waller, joined by Hazard "Buzz" Reeves, brought it to the attention of Lowell Thomas who, first with Mike Todd and later with Merian C. Cooper, produced a commercially viable demonstration of Cinerama that opened on Broadway on September 30, 1952. The film, titled This Is Cinerama, was received with enthusiasm. It was the outgrowth of many years of development. A forerunner was the tripl...
Drawbacks
The Cinerama system had some obvious drawbacks. If one of the films should break, it had to be repaired with a black slug exactly equal to the missing footage. Otherwise, the corresponding frames would have had to be cut from the other three films (the other two picture films plus the soundtrack film) in order to preserve synchronization. The use of zoom lenses was impossible since the three images would no longer match. Perhaps the greatest limitation of the process is that the picture looks...
Premiere
The first Cinerama film, This Is Cinerama, premiered on September 30, 1952 at the Broadway Theatre in New York City. The New York Times judged it to be front-page news. Notables attending included New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, violinist Fritz Kreisler, James A. Farley, Metropolitan Opera manager Rudolf Bing, NBC chairman David Sarnoff, CBS chairman William S. Paley,; Broadway composer Richard Rodgers, and Hollywood mogul Louis B. Mayer. In The New York Times a few days after the system p...
Rising costs of making three-camera widescreen films caused Cinerama to stop making such films in their original form shortly after the first release of How the West Was Won. The use of Ultra Panavision 70 for certain scenes (such as the river raft sequence) later printed onto the three Cinerama panels, proved that a more or less satisfactory wide-...
The modern Cinerama company exists as an entity of the Pacific Theatreschain. In recent years, surviving and new Cinerama prints have been screened at the following venues: 1. The Pictureville Cinema at the National Science and Media Museumin Bradford, England, beginning in June 1993 2. The New Neon Cinema in Dayton, Ohio from 1996 to 1999 3. The r...
All but two of the feature-length films produced using the original three-strip Cinerama process were travelogues or episodic documentaries such as This Is Cinerama (1952), the first film shot in Cinerama. Other travelogues presented in Cinerama were Cinerama Holiday (1955), Seven Wonders of the World (1955), Search for Paradise (1957) and South Se...
RCA uses the word "Cinerama" to refer to a display mode which fills a 16:9 video screen with 4:3 video with, in the words of the manufacturer, "little distortion." Manuals for products offering this mode give no detailed explanation. One online posting says it consists of "a slight cropping at the top & bottom combined with a slight stretch at only...
Bibliography
1. "The Waller Flexible Gunnery Trainer." By Fred Waller. In: Journal of the SMPTE, Vol. 47, July, 1946, pp. 73–87 2. "New Movie Projection System Shown Here; Giant Wide Angle Screen Utilized." Bosley Crowther, The New York Times, October 1, 1952, p. 1 3. "Apparently Solid Motion Pictures Produced by Curved Screen and Peripheral Vision." Waldemar Kaempffert, The New York Times, October 5, 1952, p. E9 4. "Looking at Cinerama: An Awed and Quizzical Inspection of a New Film Projection System." B...
- Cinerama Corporation
Cinerama Releasing Corporation, or CRC, is a defunct motion picture company established in 1967 that originally released films produced by its namesake parent company that was considered an "instant major". [li 1] History. In 1963, the owner of the Pacific Coast Theater chain, William R. Foreman, purchased Cinerama, Inc.
Cinerama Releasing Corporation. Logo description by Kris Starring. Logo captures by Eric S., Bob Fish, Derrick Anderson, and TheEriccorpinc. Editions by indycar. Video captures courtesy of Eric S. and DudeThatLogo. Background: Cinerama Releasing Corporation was founded in 1967 as a subsidiary of Cinerama Inc., creator of the titular wide-screen ...
Background: Cinerama Releasing Corporation was founded in 1967 as a subsidiary of Cinerama Inc., creator of the titular wide-screen format (invented by Fred Waller). It distributed its own films (some of which were actually not filmed in Cinerama, but in Super Panavision, Ultra Panavision, Todd-AO and sometimes standard 35mm Panavision, and converted to be played on the curved Cinerama screen ...
