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...National Theaters Inc., has a field of vision (146° wide, 55° high) almost equal to that of the human eye (160°-60°) and, at the renovated Roxy Theater in Manhattan this week, got tucked in on a canvas 100 ft. long, 40 ft. high. Like Cinerama, Cinemiracle is shot through three cameras, translated through three projectors, but avoids its older brother's sideline distortions. Cinemiracle may not be a miracle, but it offers a cinespectacle...
...poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation." He began to straighten out the temporary situation of 1947 with As the Girls Go, which opened-a scant year after bankruptcy-on money provided by angels whose faith in Mike was unshaken. Todd invested early in Cinerama, sold out and invested in Todd-AO, sold his interest in this successful process to help finance 80 Days. He wanted everything to be big, fast, spectacular. On the first anniversary of 80 Days, he threw a party for 18,000 friends in Madison Square Garden that was a spectacular...
...fiction, no one, but no one, digs Ouida's passion flowers. Her heroes and heroines had names like Fulke Ravensworth, Marion Lady Vavasour and Vaux or Sir Fulke Erceldorme. Elinor Glyn and her tiger skin were nothing to Ouida's scented boudoirs. Yet, in an age before Cinerama, she was a great descriptive writer, able to evoke Venice, Vienna, Chamonix without ever having paid them so much as a courtesy call...
Cinemiracle. A new wide-screen process, called Cinemiracle, that uses the largest curved screen to date, stretching from one side of the theater to the other, was demonstrated by National Theaters. Like Cinerama, it has a three-panel system of photography, but is free of the lines between panels and the side distortion of other wide-screen processes...
...Producer-Scriptwriter-Lyricist-Narrator-Hero Thomas hastens to inform the audience, he was appointed a special U.S. Ambassador to Nepal, for the coronation of the King of Nepal, by the President of the U.S. And in the interest of art-not to mention the financial interests of the Cinerama people, whose first three productions have already grossed $60 million-he decided to take the Cinerama audience along to see "the glowing fantasy of Asia." Those who accept his invitation will not actually see "the mythical Shangri-La" that Commentator Thomas leads them to expect, but they will certainly have plenty...