What is Cinerama? 

Excellent overview of Cinerama and the 70mm format that came after!!

I had the opportunity to see Abel Gance's production of "Napoleon" as a press screening. Originally made in 1927, the format was the squareiish 1.33:1/1.37:1 ratio for all but the last reel. The last reel displayed a forerunner of 3-strip Cinerama. It was projected using an anamorphic lens and depicted the final battle. Three separate views of the battle played together, on 35mm film complete with the separation lines of the images much like the 3-strip format.

Movie poster that you show at 0:43 is from the 70mm re-release of This is Cinerama in 1973. The picture you show at 1:48 is from 1957 Raintree County in the MGM Camera 65 process that was converted to 3-strip Cinerama for How The West Was Won.

I think the latest Cinerama is a movie theater with a digital screen equipped with 16K micro LEDs arranged on a curved surface for exclusive use of images, modeled after the Sphere built in Las Vegas. You should be able to easily create this shot using Apple Vision Pro. Therefore, I would like them to build a new Cinerama theater in Hollywood and then expand it internationally.

I got to go there in Hollywood 4 different times and my father knew the head projectist there and was able to be in the projection center booth. Watched how they started up the films.

Gracias por tu vídeo, estaba investigando porque en Caracas Venezuela hubo una sala de cine muy famosa con esta tecnología inagurada en 1957. Primera de toda Latinoamérica

Bring 70MMCinerama back to save movie theatres from closing every where.

I really love your channel and it would be awesome if you could make a video essay on CinemaScope.🙌🔥🙌🔥🙌🔥

Thank you so much for this video!

Very interesting, although having single words appear on the screen as they are spoken was irritating. I saw How The West Was Won in a Cinerama theatre. Very impressive. I now have the blu ray where the ‘joints’ have been [almost] digitally removed. Just checked your video listing and there are lots more to watch!

Interesting….

Ninguna de las peliculas en formato ancho que se filman y proyectan hoy día tienen la calidad de imagen ni la espectacularidad que tuvieron el cinerama y las películas rodadas en 70 mm.

But 70 mm existed in 1931, wasn't successful. Fox Grandeur. Fun fact, 20th Century Fox used the name and the old equipment

Could you compare the following?...... Cinerama Cinemascope and Vista ition.

I know cinerama has its problems but I do admit I like it but I have never seen it on the big screen as I live in the uk 🇬🇧 I think they is only one but I don’t think it’s still operational 😢

The correct term is 1950s, not 1950's. It's plural, not possesive.

Imax large square screen, you mean and today phony max.

Soviet Union copied Cinerama, so they could show a Cinerama movie about Russia, with sleigh ride, dance performances and showing the nature of the Soviet Union.