I’m sorry about the mistake. This message referred to Cinerama Holiday. I did enjoy Seven Wonders, particularly the runaway train and flight over Rio, although the supposed Carnival scene was pathetic. Great work of restoration by the team. The supreme accomplishment would have to be Brothers Grimm, Pete Hutley.
How many memories this brings back! I saw all those films in Paris when I was a young boy; the cinema where they were performed was the Empire near the Champs Elysées; it unfortunately burned a few years ago. This theater also was the place where Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001 a space odyssee was shown and also another french great and funny movie thank god restored to its original version Playtime by Jacques Tati. (see following comment for a explanation on this latter film)
It is/was unique. All about peripheral vision involving you in the curve (if you sat in the right spot). And ultra wide angles and everything in focus as per your own eyes. This was part of the problem for directors. Everything in shot all of the time. Such a pity the camera was so huge and difficult and that it was so expensive to project on screens. But I am baffled as to why it was never updated for shooting films today. Imax is big but not immersive like Cinerama. And Smilebox is nothing like the real thing. I wish it was..
Playtime is showd people's problems facing modern housing and new technologies .I was a trainee in a laboratory processing the different dubbed versions of this 70mm production and saw it 19 times with the technician in charge;during the sound transfers we woulld try to guess which scene was on as we had only sound during the process.the film has been transferred on dvd and perhaps bluray and is a must which does not require french knowledge as dialog is very scarce.This is a cult movie fan.
Can someone tell me the name of the song that the Takarazuka dancers are singing? I have remembered this music since the first time I saw it Cinerama when I was a teenager. Love it! I wish I could find it on RU-vid. Thanks!
Adrian Miller Io soy do RiO, Copacabana en "Las 7 Maravillas del Mundo" és la miesma seja en 1955 o 2015.( Perdona mi "portunhol)."Esto és Cinerama"fue la primera pelicula que vi en mi vida.Un niño de 3 anos em 1965 ante una pantalla superpanoramica en San Paolo.
Padma Karmann Hola Padma. Soy Adrián de Buenos Aires. Se te entiende muy bien.Las películas que mas recuerdo son "El Mundo Maravilloso de los Hermanos Grimm" y "Vacaciones en Rusia" Yo tengo para ver cuando quiera "El Mundo Maravilloso de los Hermanos Grimm" subtitulada. Es la que mas me gusta. Mi correo es aaam_06@hotmail.com por si querés conversar. Un gran abrazo
I have the 3 CINERAMA films, How the West Was Won; This Is Cinerama and Windjammer. I have an 8ft screen and video projector, 5 speaker sound and must say these films look great bringing back a lot of memories. But the very first one I ever saw as a kid was, 7 Wonders… so, yeah, hope it's released on Blue Ray soon, along with the other Cineramas to be done.
Siempre me acuerdo cuando me llevaban mis padres de niño al CASINO CINERAMA de Buenos Aires, Argentina. La gente gozaba plenamente de este espectáculo.
@paseante sin rumbo fijo Buena descripción de cinerama en esa parte del mundo. Un gran espectáculo, incluso en 2023 con tantos adelantos científicos. Abrazos desde Buenos Aires, Argentina
@paseante sin rumbo fijo Ojalá vuelva sin esas complicaciones de filmación y proyección. Con los paisajes actualizados de cada lugar de nuestro querido planeta. También un placer saludarte desde el fin del mundo. Abrazo.
Are there any Cinerama theater in the US in 2020? Back when I was a child, more than 62 years ago, in Havana Cuba, there was a theater fitted and built for Cinerama; however, I was never able to see any Cinerama movie, for back then I was merely a child, and by the time I was old enough, Fidel Castro took power of Cuba, and that Cinerama movie theater was no more.
There are three in the world. The two below and one in Bradford UK. They show standard prints also but are the only three set up for three strip Cinerama (of the old original films) They do these at certain times of year. Having said all that, the Seattle one (Martin Cinerama) was in danger of being demolished during Covid I heard unless someone saved it. It is state of the art so why that would happen is a travesty.
