Word: cinerama
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Search for Paradise (Stanley Warner Cinerama Corp.), the fourth Cinerama production, pursues the formula to its travelogical absurdity. As far as the scenery goes, Search is able to find plenty of it in the Himalayas. Airborne, the camera looks down like Shiva on the glittering tremendum of eternal snows; waterborne, it hurls the watcher through a thrilling passage of some rapids on the Indus River. But when the travel stops and the story begins, the show turns out to be a quasi-Oriental epic with a superman for a hero. The superman: radio's Lowell Thomas, who just happens...
...Damascus this week the big news was the opening of the fair. The U.S.-which made a great success at the Damascus Fair three years ago with Cinerama-concluded that Cinerama was not enough to save Syria from Soviet penetration, and was not represented. It was left to exhibits from nine Communist countries to dominate the fairgrounds...
...Agent Morros unfolded details of his espionage career, it was Soviet Embassy Second Secretary Vassili Zubilin who first asked him to become a Soviet spy in 1943. From then on real life and reel life were sometimes indistinguishable. There were tales of a coded message in which the word Cinerama really meant "You are in danger. Come home at once." There were hairbreadth escapes; i.e., one day in Moscow while Morros was in conference with Soviet Spy Chief Lavrenty P. Beria, an incoming message accused him of disloyalty. Boris charmed the Russians into believing that the American woman...
...Gone With the Wind (1939) $33-51 2) The Robe (1953) 17.5; 3) The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) 12.8; 4) From Here to Eternity (1953) 12.5; 5) This Is Cinerama (1952) 12.5; 6) White Christmas (1954) 12.0; 7) Duel in the Sun (1947) 11.3; 8) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 11.3; 9) Quo Vadis (1951) 10.5; 10) Cinerama Holiday...
...years ago Todd helped lead the big-screen revolution when he got into the movie business in a big way with Cinerama. When he got out of Cinerama at a pleasant profit he parlayed the entire packet on a process he thought even better, Todd-AO. When he got out of Todd-AO, he put it all on Around the World, had to borrow more to make the distance. Two days before the opening, as he was struggling to raise the last $162,000 for the final payment, a syndicate offered to buy him out for $10 million plus...