Word: dimensionality
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Always the Young Strangers is old Poet Sandburg exercising mellow and total recall. He seems to remember every playmate, neighbor and town character of the first 20 years of his life. And he tells about them with an artless lack of point and discrimination that flirts perilously with final boredom...
The idea of adding a third dimension to movies is almost as old as movies themselves. But to moviegoers, the illusion of depth is a perennial novelty. Off & on, through the years, it has always drawn interested crowds. Last week, at two Paramount theaters in Los Angeles, record audiences were...
Other interstellar enthusiasts favor taking short cuts through the fourth dimension. The best way to visualize this scheme is to imagine "two-dimensional people" who spend their lives on the surface of a sheet of paper, and who cannot form any conception of the three-dimensional world. If the paper were bent into a deep U, they could not cut across from one edge to the other; they would have to go around the fold...
Perhaps (who knows?) man's three-dimensional space is folded. At present man cannot cut through the fourth dimension to another part of space, but with new understanding, he might learn. A space ship using this tactic could vanish from nearby space and pop up at once a billion light-years away...
Cinerama's trick is produced by filming its subjects with a three-lens camera (each lens aimed from a different angle). Then the film is projected, by three projectors, on a wide, concave screen; the sound is played over several loudspeakers placed around the theater. Result: an impression of...