Word: cinerama
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...Manhattan, the tradesheet Variety listed the top-grossing pictures for last month, in order, The Charge at Feather River (Warner) ; Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (Warner) ; Shane (Paramount) ; This Is Cinerama (Cinerama Productions); Dangerous When...
...Sick Man was feeling pretty weak when all at once there appeared on the market two wonder drugs which seemed to cure precisely what ailed him. They were called Cinerama...
...Cinerama, photographed on three strips of film at once, is thrown by three projectors on a deep-curved screen so huge (64 ft. by 23 ft.) that it cannot possibly be built into the average movie house. Its effect on audiences at Manhattan's Broadway Theater was startling. It ran over the customers like a colossal vacuum cleaner, sucking them up into whatever it was doing. When the screen went for a roller-coaster ride, the whole theater seemed to heave and be dragged, screaming, after...
Trick Glasses. Before the moviemakers could recover from the shock and decide how to make Cinerama practical, Fate and an ardent film-hobbyist named Milton Gunzburg were jimmying the back door to salvation. Gunzburg, a mild little man of 42 whom one Hollywoodian has dubbed "the least likely Messiah in the history of hope," saw some home movies he had shot in 3-D, and had a great idea. "Why," he asked himself, "shouldn't a big studio be using this wonderful mechanism...
STANLEY Warner Corp., the exhibition company that resulted from the anti-trust split-up of Warner Brothers, expects to buy half of Cinerama Productions, Inc. (moviemaker for Cinerama). The Cinerama company, which is short of cash and has lost some of its backers' enthusiasm since the introduction of CinemaScope (see Cinema), would sell a million shares of unissued stock. A big stumbling block, the Justice Department, having once split Warner's moviemaking and exhibiting functions, may look askance on such a deal...