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Cinerama is the trademarked name for a widescreen process which works by simultaneously projecting images from three synchronized 35 mm projectors onto a huge, deeply-curved screen, subtending 146° of arc, and for the corporation which was formed to market it. It was first of a number of such processes introduced during the 1950s, when the movie industry was reacting to competition from television, and had a great impact on the motion-picture industry.
The Cinerama screen is made of adjacent vertical strips, each of which faces the audience, in order to prevent light scattered from one side of the curve from impinging on the other side. The spectacular display is accompanied by a high-quality, six-track, stereophonic sound system.
The original system involved shooting with three synchronized cameras sharing a single shutter, but this was later abandoned in favour of a 65 mm system, shot with a single camera. (Aficionados, however, insist that the later processes were inferior.) Although one of Cinerama's single-film descendants, Ultra Panavision 70, used an anamorphic adaptor, neither three strip Cinerama or its other 65 mm descendant, Super Panavision 70, used anamorphic lenses, although 35 mm anamorphic reduction prints were produced for exhibition in theatres with anamorphic Cinemascope-compatible projection lenses.
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@Diavolo ¿dónde viste, UVK o Cinerama?
drmad (Oliver Etchebarne) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:34:09 -0000
@Diavolo ¿dónde viste, UVK o Cinerama?
por cierto las "recientes" salas de Cinerama en Plaza del Sol no parecen la gran cosa (estan igual que su web) :P
Diavolo (Diavolo) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:55:09 -0000
por cierto las "recientes" salas de Cinerama en Plaza del Sol no parecen la gran cosa (estan igual que su web) :P
@raychill so... When are we going to the cinerama??
kentonjacobsen (Kenton Jacobsen) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:12:46 -0000
@raychill so... When are we going to the cinerama??
Thoroughly enjoyed Avatar at cinerama. Now to watch it in 3D. #fb
rawfysh (Stan Rawrysz) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:15:07 -0000
Thoroughly enjoyed Avatar at cinerama. Now to watch it in 3D. #fb
Avatar Prop Display taken with my Nikon at the Cinerama Dome. Avatar is a must see movie event, especially in 3D. http://flic.kr/p/7qXXZC
trekntravel (Curt Gibbs) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:44:17 -0000
Avatar Prop Display taken with my Nikon at the Cinerama Dome. Avatar is a must see movie event, especially in 3D. http://flic.kr/p/7qXXZC
Avatar at the world famous Cinerama Dome in Hollywood then Amoeba Records. Heaven.
ClaytonCogswell (Clayton Cogswell) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:14:39 -0000
Avatar at the world famous Cinerama Dome in Hollywood then Amoeba Records. Heaven.
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