Word: cinerama
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...Producer Todd took his picture on the world's largest film-exactly twice as wide (70 mm.) as the normal Hollywood stock-and has projected it on one of the world's largest indoor screens-a vast concave gullet that opens almost as wide as Cinerama, and possesses much of the same power to suck the spectator out of his seat. Not content with that, Todd flooded this huge surface with a light almost twice as intense as any ever seen onscreen before, and so hot that the film has to be refrigerated as it passes through...
...that this Polyphemus of productions does not simply collapse of its own overweight; but, thanks principally to Showman Todd, the picture skips along with an amazing lightness-like a fat lady winning a cha-cha contest. As a travelogue, Around the World is at least as spectacular as anything Cinerama has slapped together. The customer is offered an album of house-high snapshots of summer in Paris, corridas in Spain, religious festivals in India, a Wild West show in the hoariest Hollywood tradition; and at one point he is even permitted to witness a sight that the 19th century would...
...Cinerama Holiday (Independent...
...five days, the visiting Russian athletes had a high old time. Every morning they trained for the pre-Olympic track meet at London's White City Stadium. There was steak for breakfast, baskets of fruit, great bowls of yoghurt. There was also time for sightseeing, movies (Cinerama Holiday, Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush) and, best of all, shopping...
...Cinerama Holiday (Independent...