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Twenty-five years ago Erskine Caldwell wrote an oversexed novel called God's Little Acre that sold more than eight million copies and was banned in Boston, among other places. Hollywood recently decided that a new generation of Americans was ready for a wide-screen, narrow-mind treatment of the book and will release it the end of May. In honor of this step forward, the author, his wife, and two agents dropped in on Boston recently...
Cinemiracle. A new wide-screen process, called Cinemiracle, that uses the largest curved screen to date, stretching from one side of the theater to the other, was demonstrated by National Theaters. Like Cinerama, it has a three-panel system of photography, but is free of the lines between panels and the side distortion of other wide-screen processes...
This is not to say that the potentialities of the wide-screen process have not been realized. Each scene is carefully planned so that the lavish palace interiors provide a proper frame for the action, neither intruding with too brilliant colors nor detracting by money-saving shabbiness...
...greatest adventure story of the Western world. Visually, the picture could scarcely be better. The camera's Cyclopean eye stares deep into the Minoan age that has come down only in legend and a few tantalizing shards from Peloponnesus and Crete. Misty islands float in a magic wide-screen sea, naiads romp along the water's edge, enchantresses lurk in sacred groves, galleys roll and toss on angry waves conjured up by Poseidon...
...Picture. A simplified wide-screen lens for amateur photographers that increases by 50% the horizontal view of 8-and 16-mm. movie cameras has been put on sale by the Vistascope Corp. of New York. The special lens widens the camera's "eye" without any distortion. Price: $75 (for an 8-mm. camera) to $125 (for the 16-mm. camera...