Cinerama Adventure

Name: Cinerama Adventure
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2011-09-02
Duration: 1 h 37 min
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Lowell Thomas, Fred Waller, Jim Morrison

2002
1h 37m

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7.8/10

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A nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry into the widescreen era. Through actual Cine... Read allA nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry into the widescreen era. Through actual Cinerama clips, rare behind the scenes footage and new interviews, CINERAMA ADVENTURE takes th... Read allA nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry into the widescreen era. Through actual Cinerama clips, rare behind the scenes footage and new interviews, CINERAMA ADVENTURE takes the viewer back to a lost era of movie showmanship, placing this American cinema phenomenon ... Read all

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- 1 nomination

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- David Strohmaier
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- David Strohmaier
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Trivia
This documentary is featured on the Three-Disc Special Edition, Ultimate Collector's Edition & Blu-Ray DVDs for How the West Was Won (1962), all released in September 2008.

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[first lines]
Narrator: Many of us experience childhood memories, that on occasion, rush into our consciousness. A memory that has invaded my mind on numerous occasions was when I was only six years old, and my parents took me and my sister on a special trip to St. Louis, Missouri. On the last day of this visit, we arrived at a very large ornate old movie theatre. It was as if we'd walked into a sultan's palace out of the "Arabian Nights." It was the Ambassador Theatre, and it was specially set up for a new kind of motion picture event.

Alternate versions
An apparently slightly expanded version, running just under 97 minutes, was re-released in September 2008 as a bonus feature on the three disc release of "How the West Was Won" (1962).

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Features Male and Female (1919)

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Featured review

9/10

Things WERE better in the old days!

Just want to add that I have seen "The Cinerama Adventure" several times and enjoyed it very much. A feature lenght documentary about wide screen is very rare, and the Cinerama process certainly deserves this tribute. The amount of information collected for this production is amazing and much of it shows up in the form of interviews with the people behind the process as they experienced it.

My only regret is that "Windjammer" goes unmentioned. Perhaps the best of all the 3-strip films, "Windjammer", being a Cinemiracle film and technically not Cinerama, IS a first person experience LIKE Cinerama AND owned by Cinerama Inc. One of the producers, Mr. Borden Mace ("Cinerama Holiday"), recently told me why "Windjammer" was sold to Cinerama Inc. "Simply to get the film distributed as widely as possible".

Having had the priviledge to work with Mr. David Strohmaier on this production I am probably biased a bit, but "The Cinerama Adventure" is a unique and VERY thrilling ride through memory lane about a world long gone. I was born in 1963 when Cinerama was nearly gone, and have never experienced the original buzz of the process. Having read about the format for 20 years and seen the process projected in Bradford and Dayton, I can only say that "The Cinerama Adventure" gives the viewer a fantastic insight to Waller's Wonder and a taste of showmanship "three times the normal size".

If you have the slightest interest in wide screen history - go see "The Cinerama Adventure". Despite the shortcomming mentioned above, I highly recommend the film.