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...Russians had spent half a million dollars building the biggest pavilion at the Damascus Fair, while the U.S. Government had refused to let him spend even $15,000. Harris Peel, the USIS chief in Damascus, cast about for "something that would steal the show" yet cost nothing. His solution: Cinerama, which had never before been shown outside...
Peel talked the Cinerama people into providing the film, Warner Bros, into lending projectors, the U.S. Air Force into ferrying 35 tons of equipment (four projectors, 72 speakers and a special 62,000-watt generator, since Cinerama alone could use all of Damascus' electricity). Last week, by special engraved invitation, the first audience-1,500 Syrian bigwigs and their families-rode the roller coaster, toured the U.S. by airplane, while the sound track chorused America, the Beautiful. The bigwigs (and 400 others who crashed the gates) seemed a little bewildered by it all. Undaunted, Peel decided Cinerama...
...suspicion remained that Russia may be successfully selling itself, if not its machinery. Last week President Eisenhower signed a special $5,000,000 congressional authorization to participate in international fairs too, with something more than a borrowed Cinerama outfit...
Died. Fred Waller, 68, veteran Hollywood special-effects man, who after 13 years perfected Cinerama in 1951, first showed it to the public in Manhattan 20 months ago (total box-office receipts to date: $10 million); of Hodgkin's disease; in Huntington...
...This Is Cinerama (Independent...