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Cinerama is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen, subtending 146-degrees of arc. Subtending refers to the pathways of the projected images from the synchronized projectors onto the curved screen overlapping each other at one point.
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Jan 18, 2018 · The Cinerama films are hardly the rarest or most artistically accomplished movies in MoMA’s annual To Save and Project series, which also includes films from the innovative 1930s studio director...
Cinerama, in motion pictures, a process in which three synchronized movie projectors each project one-third of the picture on a wide, curving screen. Many viewers believe that the screen, which thus annexes their entire field of vision, gives a sense of reality unmatched by the flat screen.
The Cinerama Dome is the only concrete geodesic dome in the world. The theatre is made up of 316 individual hexagonal and pentagonal shapes in 16 different sizes. Each of these pieces is approximately 12 feet (3.7 metres) across and weighs around 7,500 pounds (3,400 kilograms).
Mar 4, 2013 · Cinerama offered what no TV or movie screen could provide before — peripheral vision, which could make you feel as if you were really in the midst of the action.
Internet's largest cyber museum of widescreen movie and early movie color system history lavishly illustrated with film stills, drawings, etc. Cinerama, Cinemascope, Vistavision, Panavision, Todd-AO, Technirama, Superscope, wide screen, widescreen, 70mm, anamorphic, color film, aspect ratio.
The most ambitious and biggest screen system was Cinerama, launched in 1952. Cinerama used three 35mm cameras, locked together, to be screened on three 35mm projectors. The screen was also curved at 146º so it would wrap around the audience.
Aug 30, 2003 · Cinerama, Strohmaier learned, was invented by Fred Waller, who headed the special effects department at Paramount Pictures during the 1920s. In 1937, Waller developed Vitarama, a wide-screen presentation system that used 11 contiguous film projectors.
