It also gave legendary pilot Paul Mantz, who flew Cinerama cameramen for many death-defying sequences, his public props. The labor of love documentary includes riveting backstories, interviews with historians and veterans of the Cinerama years and clips from all extant Cinerama films.
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Harvey collector Willem Bouwmeester of the International Cinerama Society (ICS) helped install the theatre at Pictureville at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford, England. We also meet the remarkable collector/ historian John Harvey,who prior to his debilitating stroke, built his own 3-strip cinema in home and had assembled 3-strip prints of “This is Cinerama”, “How The West Was Won” and “Cinerama Holiday”. Cooper, all involved in the original “This Is Cinerama”. Tracking the story from special effects master Fred Waller’s inventive “Vitarama” an early vital reality experience used to train Aerial gunners for World War ll, and the subsequent involvement with sound engineer Hazard Reeves (who created the 7-channel surround sound system which was remixed and customized at each roadshow performance), producer Mike Todd and filmmaker- adventurers Lowell Thomas and Merion C. In it’s mere ten years run, Cinerama, and it’s derivatives (Cinemiracle, VistaVision, Cinemascope, Technirama, Panavision and Todd-AO) established the widescreen ratio as the industry standard. Hall, co-producer, writer- director David Strohmaier and executive producer Carin-Anne Strohmaier completed their remarkable “Cinerama Adventure” the definitive history of the three-camera widescreen projection process that changed the way audiences viewed film forever. Rounding out this remarkable tribute audiences will be treated to Stanley Kubrick’s Super Panavision “A Space Odyssey” (1968) and Stanley Kramer’s epic road comedy “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World” (1963), shot in 2.75:1, anamorphic 70 mm (with extras Cinerama Dome construction and Mad World Premiere newsreel) and the breakdown reels of “Cinerama” (with Lowell Thomas & Dimitri Tiomkin) and “Cinerama Holiday.” Claire Bloom) Dorothea Grimm), Walter Slezak (bookseller Stossel), Martita Hunt, Buddy Hackett, Terry Thomas, Jim Backus, Yvette Mimieux, Russ Tamblyn, Oscar Homolka, Karlheinz Bohm (Jacob Grimm) and Arnold Stang (as Rumpelstiltskin) Harry Levin directed the dramatic sequences and George Pal produced and directed the fairy tale sequences. The cast includes Laurence Harvey (Wilhelm Grimm). The only surviving print of the legendary ‘Lost’ Cinerama feature “The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm” (1962).
Some of the three-panel footage was converted to 70mm and appears in the film. The Anglo-Hungarian co-production began in three-camera Cinerama but switched to one-camera Super Technirama 70. premiere on Septemat the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, where the only surviving print of the film played for one night only as a double feature with the Smell-o-Rama “Scent of Mystery” (1959 ), under its de-scented, 1961 Cinerama title, “Holiday in Spain”. “The Golden Head” received its much belated U.S. Shooting on weekends, the team shot for almost five months using location shoots at the Hollywood Heritage Museum at the Lasky-DeMIlle Barn, City Hall, the Disney Concert Hall, the Watts Towers, Angel’s Flight, Griffith Observatory, Grauman’s Chinese, a trip down Hollywood Boulevard, ending at the Arclight Theatre.Īlso on view “The Golden Head” (1964). Fujifilm made them new stock at reduced rates and Foto-Chem labs processed the film also at reduced rates.
The team refurbished to working a Cinerama camera, raiding parts from other non-operative Cinerama cameras.
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Director Dave Strohmaier, DOPs Doug Knapp and David Tondeur and AP/ AD Randy Gitsch shot a travelogue featuring free things to do in Hollywood.
Cinerama Inc.’s John Sittig executive produced “In The Picture”. The Festival launches with a free showing of “In the Picture” the first Cinerama film shot in 50 years.
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From September 28 through October 3, all five of the 1950’s Cinerama travelogues, (“This Is Cinerama”, “Cinerama Holiday” (1955), “Seven Wonders of the World” (1956), “Search for Paradise” (1957), “South Seas Adventure”(1958) plus “Windjammer “(1958) which was filmed in the rival CineMiracle process, Cinerama’s Russian Adventure” (1966), “How The West Was Won” (1962) and Cinerama oddities including a 3-strip Renault automobile commercial which played with “How The West Was Won” in France, will be screened as they were designed to be seen. In celebration of the 60th Anniversary of Cinerama, The Cinerama Dome presents the most complete Cinerama festival of the last 50 years.
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