Cinerama
Widescreen film format
Cinerama was a widescreen film process that used three synchronized projectors and a deeply curved screen to create an immersive panoramic image.
Popular in the 1950s and 1960s, it was designed to fill peripheral vision and overwhelm viewers with spectacle: The travelogue was shot in Cinerama.
The process required specially equipped theaters, which limited its reach.
The term sometimes appears generically for any epic widescreen presentation.
Horizontally extended display format
- triptychArt in three panels
- 70mmWide cinema film format
- filmstripProjected sequence of stills
- seamlessWithout visible joins
wraparound · synchronized · interlocked · split-screen · anamorphic · celluloid · reel
Impressively grand in scope
- sweepingExtensive and far-reaching
- vistaPleasing distant scene
- grandeurImpressive splendor and scale
- travelogueAccount of journeys abroad
landscape · scenic · immersive · theatrical · showmanship · blockbuster · wide-angle · expansive
Decade after WWII
- drive-inVenue serving seated motorists
- postwarAfter hostilities end
- roadshowTraveling promotional presentation
- TechnicolorMotion picture coloring system
Sputnik · tailfins · Kodachrome · CinemaScope · MGM · Paramount · midcentury · premiere
Rounded vault forming roof
- intermissionScheduled performance pause
- flagshipCommander's principal vessel
- presentationFormal display to viewers
- stereophonicSound from two channels
widescreen
Horizontally extended display format
seamless · wraparound · synchronized · interlocked · split-screen · anamorphic · celluloid · reel
epic
Impressively grand in scope
travelogue · landscape · scenic · immersive · theatrical · showmanship · blockbuster · wide-angle · expansive · breathtaking
1950s
Decade after WWII
- drive-inVenue serving seated motorists
- postwarAfter hostilities end
- roadshowTraveling promotional presentation
Technicolor · Sputnik · tailfins · Kodachrome · CinemaScope · MGM · Paramount · midcentury · premiere · gala
travelogue
Account of journeys abroad
- documentaryFactual film about reality
dome
Rounded vault forming roof
- intermissionScheduled performance pause
- flagshipCommander's principal vessel
- presentationFormal display to viewers
Cineramaaspect ratio
Width-height relationship of images
fullscreen · small screen · full frame · 4
Cineramasmall screen
Television as a medium
television · home video · portable screen · peep show · kinetoscope
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