This Is Cinerama

This Is Cinerama (1952)

Plunges you into a startling new world of entertainment

Designed to introduce the then-new widescreen process Cinerama, audiences experience the roller coaster at Rockaways' Playland, the temple dance from Aida, Niagara Falls, a Viennese choir, the canals of Venice, a military tattoo in Edinburgh, a bullfight, and more. The film concludes with a view from the nose of a low-flying B-25 while America the Beautiful plays.

Date of release
1952-09-30
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Merian C. Cooper, Gunther von Fritsch

Casting

Interesting facts

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This Is Cinerama is a 1952 American documentary film directed by Mike Todd, Michael Todd Jr., Walter A. Thompson and Fred Rickey and starring Lowell Thomas. It is designed to introduce the widescreen process Cinerama, which broadens the aspect ratio so that the viewer's peripheral vision is involved. This Is Cinerama premiered on September 30, 1952, at the Broadway Theatre in New York City.

Production

Parts of the film were shot in the Kennecott open-pit mine and in Zion National Park in Utah. The movie was shot in Eastmancolor and released with Technicolor prints.

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