Cinerama Adventure is a documentary about the history of the Cinerama widescreen film process. To simulate the Cinerama experience for The Cinerama Adventure, a special three-panel telecine process termed SmileBox® (a registered trade mark of C.A. Productions), was developed by video and film expert Greg Kimble. Cinerama is the trademarked name for a widescreen process which works by simultaneously projecting images from three synchronized 35 mm projectors onto a huge, deeply-curved screen, subtending 146° of arc, and for the corporation which was formed to market it. ...
It was written, directed, and edited by David Strohmaier and produced by Randy Gitsch, in association with the American Society of Cinematographers. The runtime 97 minutes.
Cinerama was developed by Fred Waller and was the outgrowth of many years of development.
Cinerama was introduced in September, 1952, at the Broadway Theatre in New York.
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.
But the Cinerama format singlehandedly revived a film industry that was in the process of being overthrown by the arrival of television, directly leading to the development of the now-standard widescreen format, and, many claim, greatly helping the Americans win World War II.
Cinerama is based on the principle of filling the viewer's entire field of vision, by projecting three parts of the same scene, filmed from slightly different angles, blended together as one image on a gargantuan curved screen.
CineramaAdventure charts the global Cinerama craze that ensued after the release of This is Cinerama, and the six other films made in the format (mostly travelogues like South Seas Adventure and Cinerama Holiday) through interviews and old clips.
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