Cinerama

:For the UK rock group, see: Cinerama (band)

Cinerama today

The Cinerama company exists today as an entity of the Pacific Theatres chain. In recent years hard work by dedicated enthusiasts has made possible showings of surviving and new Cinerama prints, notably at:

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• the Pictureville Cinema at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, England beginning in 1993
• the New Neon Cinema in Dayton, Ohio from 1996 to 1999
• the refurbished Martin Cinerama in Seattle beginning in 2000
• Pacific Theatres? Cinerama Dome in Hollywood beginning in 2002.

As of 2004, the Pictureville Cinema, Martin Cinerama and Cinerama Dome continue to hold periodic screenings of three-projector Cinerama movies.

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A 2003 documentary, The Cinerama Adventure, took a look back at the history of the Cinerama process, as well as digitally recreating the Cinerama experience via clips of true Cinerama films (using transfers from original Cinerama prints). And Turner Entertainment (via Warner Bros.) has struck new Cinerama prints of How The West Was Won for exhibition in true Cinerama theatres around the world.

Related Topics:
2003 - Turner Entertainment - Warner Bros.

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Cinerama is widely considered the most impressive wide-screen process ever to have achieved commercial success, and a process ahead of its time. Every other system--Todd-AO, Cinemascope, even IMAX, can be fairly described as attempts, with varying degrees of success, to approximate Cinerama at lower cost.

Related Topics:
Todd-AO - Cinemascope - IMAX

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