Cinerama

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Single-Film "Cinerama:" Ultra-Panavision 70 and Super-Panavision 70

Rising costs in making three-camera wide-screen 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 screen image could be photographed without the three cameras. Consequently, Cinerama discontinued the three film process, with the exception of a single theater showing Cinerama's Russian Adventure shot in a copycat Soviet process in 1966. Cinerama continued through the rest of the 1960s as a brand-name used initially with the Ultra-Panavision 70 widescreen process (which yielded a similar aspect ratio as the original Cinerama, although it did not simulate the 146 degree field of view.) Specially modified "rectified" prints were necessary to project this onto the curved screen. The films shot in Ultra Panavision for single lens Cinerama presentation were It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Battle of the Bulge (1965), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), The Hallelujah Trail (1965) and Khartoum (1966).

Related Topics:
Panavision 70 - Cinerama's Russian Adventure - 1960s - It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - 1963 - Battle of the Bulge - 1965 - The Greatest Story Ever Told - The Hallelujah Trail - Khartoum - 1966

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Following the use of Ultra-Panavision 70, the less wide but still spectacular Super Panavision 70 was used to film, Grand Prix (1966), ' (1968), Ice Station Zebra (1968), Krakatoa, East of Java (1969), and Song of Norway (1970).

Related Topics:
Grand Prix - 1966 - 1968 - Ice Station Zebra - Krakatoa, East of Java - 1969 - Song of Norway - 1970

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Two films were shot in the somewhat lower resolution Super Technirama 70 process for Cinerama release, these were Circus World (1964) and Custer of the West (1967). By now what was advertised as "Cinerama" was a pale reflection of the original three film process.

Related Topics:
Circus World - 1964 - Custer of the West - 1967

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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Cinerama name was used as a film distribution company, ironically re-issuing one-camera Cinemascope reduction prints of This Is Cinerama (1972).

Related Topics:
1970s - Cinemascope - 1972

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