The work behind the remastering and reconstruction of Cinerama's "Seven Wonders of the World" by David Strohmaier and Cinerama Inc, 2014. Copyright 2014, Cinerama, Inc.
Incredible! Thanks for this amazing documentary on the overwhelming challenges to restoring CINERAMA. All the blu-rays are the highlight of my vast collection, thanks to everybody involved.
I was 10 years old, it was around 1957, when we went up to Boston to see the Cinerama 7 Wonders film. It was one of the most thrilling experiences of my life. Especially spectacular were the scenes of the pyramids and sphinx. It is both an historical and artistic achievement to restore these magnificent images. This is a great project and you should get the most profound thanks for this effort. You must assuredly do from me !
What an "Eighth Wonder of the World" this achievement and other similar projects are. Thank you for the great technical explanations to each phase and the interesting details. As the ending basically mentions there will be future technical advances that may be applied to these archived footages of history. Even software as we know it today may be superseded by new ways to remove the slight lines between Able, Baker and Charlie and bring them even closer together visually. As Mr. Spoke frequently stated in several Star Trek episodes...."Fascinating!!!" Many thanks for the posting and to those who brainstormed and pulled the right people and ideas together to clean up so many films. Kind Regards
fantastic work, I was in my younger days a projectionist in a Cinerama theatre in the UK. I showed many films including How The West Was Won, I even have a small reel of the left hand picture still in my possession. The three projector system was very challenging. Later on the Cinerama lens was developed and we then used 70mm and two Phillips DP70 projectors.
@@momentsoflife1238 In my younger days I loved my job as a cinerama projectionist in the UK. In the beginning we used the three projector system and then later two 70mm projectors. I must have showed most of the Cinerama productions including the Sound of Music and that was twice a day for two years continuous. I admire your work, thank you.
I went down a RU-vid rabbit hole which began with looking into when surround sound was first used in theaters...To Cinerama...And to Cinemascope and your documentary. This was fascinating and educational. Thanks for posting it!
Incredibly difficult process. Thank you so much for the work you do! I'm glad you added the curve to the home video transfer, as it's impractical to replicate that curve in home theater systems.
Great efforts, patience and cost involved to restore Classic Cinerama 3 strip film image digitally in the best possible manner. Those senior cinegoers who have actually seen the Original THREE STRIP CINERAMA in 1950s / 60s at a properly equipped large theater still remember the quality / grandeur & depth of this majestic film making process / technique and precision projection.
I have How the west was won on blu ray and love it the Cinerama Experience is just outstanding and I hope to go to see the Bradford cinema to see cinerama one day thank you for this great video
thanks and congratulations to all involved in saving these features in 3-STRIP. I WONDERED, GIVEN THE RESOLUTION OF THE CAMERA NEGATIVES, HOW HIGH A STANDARD OF DIGITAL SCANNING IS WORTHWHILE 8K, 16K, 32K? - FUTURE 9K IS MENTIONED AT THE END OF THIS FEATURETTE. ALSO, HSD ANY WORK BEEN EXPERIMENTED/DONE TO USE ELECTRONIC CLOR REVERSAL OF THE CAMERA NEGATIVES?$3strip roadshow presentations in huge blue portable tents at the uk seaside in Torquay, Devon, are part of my childhood holiday memories.- mid 1960's 🙂
I was about 8 years old when I saw that film. It inspired me to travel all my life. I just came back from visiting the Great Wall for a second time and have travelled to Asia six times. I had a chance to see the Taj Ma Hal in India while traveling there. Now I understand people from other cultures better. More than that, I married a Chinese woman, who has made me very, very happy 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Fascinating explanation of the process of restoration. Thanks for sharing this. I would also have been curious to know how the sound recording was captured, and if there was an restoration done there as well. Great job though on this video.
what i remember about the cinerama process is the visible bars on the huge screen where the three panels of film were projected next to each other ... so distracting
Seems like if you have multiple faded prints of the same film you could scan all of them and apply some kind of stacking algorithm like astronomers do.
Software to remove the image joint artifacts is not yet able to completely solve the problem. Just a matter of time. What they have already done is absolutely amazing; It will only get better in the future.
y'all used very aggressive noise reduction throughout all of these restorations and it makes them often look very unnatural and smeary, like a VCI blu-ray. it would be great if these films received proper UHDs with an option between smilebox and flat (some of us have curved monitors now).
Fantastic to watch and I can only applaud the painstaking work and attention to detail that has gone into this . I can appreciate much of the work since , as a photographer I scan a lot of still images , from negatives , transparencies and prints of numerous formats and ages , then have to apply corrections ; enough work for a still image , but mind boggling for so many frames , especially when each frame is a composite of three which sometimes have to be treated individually and matched to each other . Well done . Earlier in my life I worked in the AV presentation industry , in all disciplines and have done a fair bit of projection , ranging from 16mm , through 35mm slide projection , up to 15 projectors with dissolve units , sometimes synced to either 16mm or video projection for part of the image , should , lighting etc etc , so I can appreciate a lot of the work that goes on in projection as well . Although I now work mainly with digital photography and videography , I grew up with film , shooting 35mm , 6x6cm and 6x7cm medium format , and standard 8mm , super 8mm and more recently 16mm since I acquired a Bolex H16 last year ... maybe I'll move on to anamorphic . That leads me onto a question ; since growing up in the 1960s I have seen countless films in 35mm Cinemascope , a few in 70mm and fewer yet in IMAX . I have long been aware of the numerous different cinema formats , but I've yet to find a single place where all are compared , going from 16 and 35mm Academy ratio , through Cinerama , Cinemascope , Vistavision , Todd AO , various flavours of Panavision 70mm and finally IMAX . It would be wonderful to see a single comparison of the technical specs of all the competing systems , also sound systems , ranging from simple mono and 2ch stereo , through the ones that are part of the above systems , Sennsurround , Dolby , THX etc . I'm sure many others would be interested in this . While I never saw ( yet ) a proper 3 strip cinerama film running , must get down to Bradford , I know we did have the Coliseum here in Eglinton St , Glasgow . Sadly , I was one of the photographers who surveyed it following the catastrophic fire which destroyed it some years ago , but even in its ruined state it was an impressive structure , and despite being used as a bingo hall latterly , the stage and curved wall where the screen would have been survived the fire . Alas there were only certain parts of the building that were safe to enter , and it was demolished shortly after . I would have liked to have seen it prior to the fire ; I don't know if any of the equipment remained before , but little remained beyond stone and metalwork when I was there .
