THE INTERNATIONAL CINERAMA SOCIETY |
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Wide Visit With
Willem Bouwmeester |
Willem Bouwmeester By Howard Rust Willem's role in life was defined when his dad took him to the cinema at age 14 to see Cinerama. In 1992 he discovered that NMPFT was seeking a new attraction to add to it's collection. For him the logical choice could only be Cinerama. |
Keith Swadkins By Howard Rust A true Cinerama enthusiast, typed, edited, a Cinerama newsletter that he posted to similarly minded enthusiasts all over the world, at his own expense. All correspondence traveled either by surface or airmail, the cost of which all came out of his own pockets. |
Who
is David Coles?
At the impressionable age of 12 my mother took me to the Sydney Plaza
Theatre to see “Seven Wonders of the World” and I immediately became a
Cinerama addict - determined to find out all about this wondrous
process. |
John Harvey's Cinerama Achievements Recognized By Bill Lawrence The NMPFT felt it was in place to pay tribute to John with a special award - a scroll - , thanking him for his contribution to revitalize Cinerama. Thanks to John's enthusiasm, Cinerama has again been made available to the public. |
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THE INTERNATIONAL CINERAMA SOCIETY |
In October 1985 a group of movie enthusiasts got together and formed the “International Cinerama Society” with the ultimate goal of re-creating an authentic, three projector, seven-track sound Cinerama installation.
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CINERAMA
PRESERVATION SOCIETY |
Cinerama Preservation Society: Quarterly
Newsletter, issue 1, Fall 1997 |
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"Search
for Paradise" Cue Sheet
The soundtrack of a Cinerama feature could be formatted as 6-track stereo,
with mono surround or as 7 or even 8 track stereo with stereo surrounds. In
some films surround format would change within the feature. The
projectionist would follow a cue sheet indicating when sound channels had
to be changed during the performance. This is an example from Malmø in
Sweden. |
Cinerama
Festival Diary 2012
By David Coles
A whole week of rarely seen Cinerama features, documentaries, breakdown
films and a 3-panel film advertisement – all presented at the worlds most
famous Cinerama venue – the Dome, near the corner of
Sunset & Vine in beautiful downtown Hollywood, U.S.A. |
Cinerama
Apartment
By
Seamus Walsh
There are A LOT of these crappily-built apartment buildings from the late
50's-early 60's in Los Angeles. Many of them have exotic or grandiose names. |
Saturday
at Cinerama's 60th Anniversary
By Anders M Olsson
Impressions from the Cinerama festival in Los Angeles.
Film star Russ Tamblyn introduced "Brothers Grimm". |
Cinerama
60th Anniversary
By Tom
March
A picture report from the "Cinerama center of the world"
at the Dome in LA - people from Europe and the US are
together celebrating the 60th anniversary of Cinerama |
The
Cinerama Dome
Celebrates
Cinerama's 60th
Anniversary
Join us September
28th - October 4th
at Hollywood's
Historic CINERAMA
Dome to celebrate
Cinerama's 60th
Anniversary! For the
FIRST & ONLY time
for one SPECTACULAR
WEEK we will be
playing twelve
classic Cinerama
productions |
“The
CINERAMA story”
By Johan Wolthuis
A brand new
publication from
International 70mm
Publishers,
about the unique large format process which has been brought back to life by the unbelievable work done by Dave Strohmaier and Randy
Gitsch |
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PEOPLE |
Beatrice
Troller (1932 -
2015)
By Troller Family
Beatrice Stocklin
Troller passed away
on August 18, 2015
after a valiant
battle with cancer.
Beatrice was born on
February 18th, 1932
in Basel,
Switzerland, where
she attended
Kunstgewerbeschule,
the school of arts
and crafts. With her
late husband, artist
Fred Troller, she
starred in the
second Cinerama
feature "CINERAMA
HOLIDAY" (1955),
directed by Robert
L. Bendick and
Philippe De Lacy. |
A
conversation with John Mitchell
By Cameron Glendinning
Let's go to Australia and meet a man who has a complete 3-strip Cinerama
cinema in his garden.
It all started when he heard on the grapevine that a certain storehouse
was to be emptied. |
Dave
Strohmaier and Randy Gitsch - in conversation with Mark Lyndon
Cinerama’s future might evolve into a name on more than just a couple of theaters;
Cinerama could come to mean a curved screen presentation; a noticeable
distinct curved screen, perhaps not 146 degrees, but certainly more than
a marginal curved screen. |
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CINERAMA ADVENTURE |
"Cinerama Adventure" in Telluride By Dave Strohmaier
Telluride was terrific, Carin
Anne, Me, Randy Gitsch, John Sittig and Greg Kimble were treated like
Celebs. They put us up in plush condos in Mountain Village, the exclusive
resort just above the town of Telluride. |
"Cinerama Adventure"
Cast & Credit
By Dave Strohmaier
The documentary is in Director's cut and is 100 minutes long. A lot
has changed since the early versions. We have shown it around Los
Angeles at several "test screenings" and also at professional
documentary film maker private screenings |
"The Cinerama Adventure" update
By Dave Strohmaier
Final sound mix Dolby 5.1 starts Monday Aug 11th, 2003 with new score & efx.
35mm film out of the Hi-def version starts Tuesday 12th.
(Interviews are 1:33 inside of 1:85. when we cut to Cinerama its in curved Smilebox 1:85) we had to upgrade (re-do) all the Cinerama shots in Hi def. |
"Cinerama Adventure"
- First review By Richard Greenhalgh
This production is simply perfect! It blends the history of the
people behind Cinerama with the story of the making of the films and
highlights the technical aspects of this pioneering widescreen format in
an exiting and dramatic way. |
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"CINERAMA ADVENTURE"
WEB SITE ARCHIVE |
By David Strohmaier & Martin
Hart, USA
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(Some media files may not work) |
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COMING
SOON ABOUT CINERAMA |
History of Cinerama: A Story of technological Innovation and Industrial
Management
By Thomas Edward Erffmeyer (1985)
Cinerama, It's History and Development
By Hikmet Labib Avedis Aghanigian (Thesis, 1965)
"This is Cinerama"...is still alive
By Otto Lang
"Cinerama Holiday" Breakdown Reels Dialouge |
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COMING SOON ABOUT VITARAMA |
Vitarama Staff list
Pioneers of the Giant Deep Curved Screen
Fred Waller's "Dolphin Akwa-Skees" advertising
Excerpt from Lowell Thomas's Broadcast May 18, 1954 on the occasion the Fred Waller's passing |
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Ladies
and Gentlemen, This is Cinerama!
By Thomas Hauerslev
Cinerama's 60th anniversary is celebrated in 2012, with the digital
re-release of the original 3-strip film on Blu-ray and in selected
theatres. Cinerama premiered in 1952 and revolutionized the exhibition
industry with wide screns and 7-channel stereophonic sound |
Cinemiracle/Cinerama
in Germany
By Gerhard Witte
In Europe, cinemas
for 3-strip films
were only set up on
a wide scale fairly
late, that is at the
end of the 1950s and
the beginning of the
1960s. By then,
other wide-screen
methods such as
CinemaScope and
perhaps also Todd-AO
had been broadly
accepted.
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Cinemiracle/Cinerama
in Deutschland |
Cinérama Itinérant (Itinerama)
Cinerama's Mobile Tent Theatres
By Gerhard Witte
A top priority of Nicolas Reisini, CEO of Cinerama,
Inc. from '60 to '63, was
to bring 3-strip projection to the widest possible audience, above all to the
population in the countryside. Consequently, he
created in a showmanly way a portable Cinerama, the so-called "Itinerama"
which premiered in France in Mantes-la-Jolie on
Monday, 4 September 1961 – "Why go to Paris or London to experience Cinerama,
when Cinerama can come to you?!" |
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"CINERAMA HOLIDAY" REUNION 1997 |
A Get Together in Dayton
By David Page
This "Cinerama Holiday" performance would
see "in person" appearances by the 2 couples who starred in the
1955 film - the Marshes and the Trollers. |
Time Traveling to the New Neon By David Joachim
"Cinerama Holiday", the second film produced in the
process, is the most cinematic and dazzling of the three features I got to
see. Yellows and greens make cameo appearances in a few scenes, but the
starring color is pink |
This is Oyster Bay By Thomas Hauerslev
Behind her house, was Fred Waller´s old
barn a.k.a. "Waller Stvdio". In this barn all Waller's ideas took
form. Waterskiis, The Gunnery Trainer, Photometric Fit Picture and Cinerama.
See: Daughters
of Mary St. Pius V Chapel |
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CINERAMA CINEMAS |
Cinerama at the Plaza By Eric White
For twelve years, from 1958 until 1970, Cinerama was exhibited at
Melbourne’s Plaza theatre. It was very popular in a period when the cinema
business was struggling. |
Savoy The only Cinerama venue in Finland By Rabbe Sandelin
The Savoy was for a long time the biggest cinema house in Helsinki.
It was built in 1937 in central Helsinki, when some old buildings were
demolished |
Empire - Cinerama, Paris Kingdom
of curved screen
by Francois Carrin
CINERAMA arrived in 1955 in Paris near the Place de l'Etoile. It was a theatre called EMPIRE
which was chosen to play "This is CINERAMA" |
Cinerama Festival in Seattle By Dave Strohmaier |
Cinerama at the Pictureville By Thomas Hauerslev |
Canadian 70mm and Cinerama screenings By Bill Kretzel |
3-strip
in Barcelona, Spain
By Ramon
Lamarca
I was browsing through newspapers listings yesterday
and I was amazed and the huge amount of blow-ups they
had in Spain |
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CINERAMA
FILM MUSIC |
A
musical Journey around the World in fantastic stereophonic Cinerama Sound
By Gerhard Witte
As I already owned the musical scores of several Cinerama films I thought,
"most likely a simple compilation of the scores".
My guess was wrong. This new 2-CD set is really a surprise and a listening
pleasure. It assembles the musical highlights of all 5 Cinerama travelogue
film scores together, cleverly compiled and digitally restored
from the 35mm magnetic Cinerama films. |
Liner
notes for "The Brothers Grimm" 2-CD
By Jim Lochner
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm was a pet project of producer
George Pal, better known for such sci-fi/fantasy films as Destination
Moon |
"Brothers
Grimm" soundtrack released by Film Score Monthly
This 2CD set presents a key work relating to fantasy filmmaker George Pal,
composer Leigh Harline, and the widescreen Cinerama film process |
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"The Best of
Cinerama" in Germany |
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Bigger than "Ben-Hur" – My Japan Cinerama
Project |
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CINERAMA FILMS |
"This is CINERAMA" (1952) "Cinerama Holiday" (1955) "Seven Wonders of the World" (1956) "Search for Paradise" (1957) "Cinerama South Seas Adventure" (1958) "Renault Dauphine" (Commercial short) (1959) "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm" (1962) "How The West Was Won" (1962)
"In The
Picture" (2012)
"Cinerama's Russian Adventure" "The Best of Cinerama"
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list |
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RAMA AND MORE |
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The
RAMA Pages
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Alphabetical listing
of Ramas
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screen splendour! |
The Cinerama Barn By Paul Samuels Ever since I saw Cinerama in 1952, I was so deeply affected by it that I only knew that I wanted it. That event sparked my interest in photography, optics and all the rest. |
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"WINDJAMMER" |
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Louis de Rochemont's "Windjammer" in
Cinemiracle |
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"THIS
IS CINERAMA" |
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“This is Cinerama”: The North
American 70mm Re-Release Engagements
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“This Is Cinerama” The Original Roadshow
Engagements |
“This
Is Cinerama”: The Original Roadshow Engagements
By Mike Coate
This list consists only of
first-run, reserved-seat engagements. Not included in the list are
return engagements, mobile presentations, drive-in engagements, the 70mm
single-panel re-release engagements, and contemporary screenings.
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in70mm.com's
Cinerama page |
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"IN
THE PICTURE" IN CINERAMA |
CINERAMA
2012 - First day of shooting "In the Picture"
By Michael J Cahill
It is Saturday January 14, 2012 and today the Barn is
the centerpiece for a brief scene in an all-new short
film for Cinerama called “In the Picture”, produced by
Anthony Saenz and directed by Dave Strohmaier. |
"In
the Picture" - Now Shooting
By Strohmaier / Hauerslev
Wednesday November 2nd, 2011 will be the first time the
Cinerama camera will shoot 3 strip since "How The West
Was Won" over 50 years ago. |
"In
the Picture": Filming Completed
By Dave Strohmaier
We shot the very last shot with the Cinerama camera the camera can go
back to sleep for another 60 years until some other film makers discover
it again! |
The
Last Cinerama Wrap
Party
By Strohmaier &
March
The digital scanning
of “IN THE PICTURE”
is complete and it
has been about two
years since it was
filmed, so now that
we have the HD
digital version of
the film, it’s about
time for a wrap
party. The BBQ and
movie screening were
a great success and
a good time was had
by everyone. |
'In
the Picture': The Return of Cinerama
By Johan Wolthuis
'In the Picture' had its
European premiere on April 27, 2013, half a year after the Hollywood
premiere, during the Widescreen Festival Weekend in Bradford , UK in the
beautiful Pictureville Cinema, which is part of the National Media Museum
and the only theatre in Europe with facilities to screen original Cinerama
films. |
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"THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM" IN CINERAMA |
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60th anniversary of "The
Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm" |
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“The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm”: The North
American Cinerama Roadshow Engagements |
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Restoration and re-mastering “The Wonderful
World of the Brothers Grimm" from 3-strip 35mm negatives |
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"The Wonderful World
of the Brothers Grimm" Remaster Trailers |
The
Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm - "Lost" Cinerama Film Reviewed
By Mark Lyndon
This legendary “lost” Cinerama feature has held up well over the years.
For a fifty year old feel good film it still felt and looked pretty
good. George Pal produced and directed the fairy tale sequences with
Harry Levin for the real life drama. |
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New Zealand to the
rescue with "Grimm"
Soundtrack |
Information
about the 3-strip movie "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm"
By Gerhard Witte
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are mainly worldwide renowned for their collection
of fairy tales – but they were also language- and cultural researchers,
diplomats, lawyers, professors, librarians and politicians. They were born
in Hanau as the eldest children of a Calvinist pastor's family with civil
service ties.
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Informationen
über den 3-Streifen-Film "Die Wunderwelt der Gebrüder Grimm" |
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"HOW THE WEST WAS WON" IN CINERAMA |
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"How The West Was
Won" - in Cinerama |
“How
the West Was Won”: The Original Cinerama Presentations
By Mike Coate
This list consists only of first-run, reserved-seat engagements. Not
included in the list are return engagements, mobile presentations, drive-in
engagements, the 70mm single-panel re-release engagements, and contemporary
screenings. |
Digital restoration of HOW THE WEST WAS WON By Rick Mitchell The "special screening" that ended last weekend's "The Reel Thing-XX" was a digital presentation of MGM's "How The West Was Won" scanned at 2K from original negatives, ultimately yielding a 6K image. |
“West” Film Locations By Tom March I first encountered the Lone Pine Film Festival while travelling through Lone Pine searching out old film locations from “How the West Was Won” |
"How the West Was Shown" By Paul Rayton Paul has very kindly taken a few shots of Sunday's event at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. |
Large format at the Cinerama Dome By David Strohmaier Even if you don't get your favorite seats please come and register your vote for more large format screenings at the Dome. We need your support today! |
"How the West Was Won" screening at the Dome By Richard Greenhalgh
with Rick Mitchell |
"This is Cinerama"'s Cinerama Dome |
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Cinerama Titles Around The
World |
HTWWW's
"World Preview" in
Paris
By Gerhard Witte
The Cinerama movie
"How the West Was
Won" (USA) had its
official World
Premiere on
Thursday, November
01, 1962 at London's
Casino Cinerama
Theatre, where it
subsequently
successfully ran for
more than 120 weeks.
Previously, there
had already been a
"World Preview" of
the movie at the
Empire Cinerama
Theatre in Paris on
Tuesday, October 02,
1962. |
Introduction
to How The West Was Won
By Professor Sir Christopher Frayling
How The West Was Won began life not with a script commission from the
executives at Cinerama Inc or with an original treatment sent in from an
agent, but with a series of seven historical articles in Life
magazine—running from April 6th to May 18th 1959. |
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