I love this. Seeing the Cinerama camera in action is awesome! Does anyone know where I might buy one of those t-shirts they're all wearing in this video?
The production team will continue filming through the end of March 2012. There is a Cinerama Festival at the end of September this year in Hollywood at the ArcLight Cinerama Dome Theatre. During that festival this new film will be shown several times prior to several of the newly restored Cinerama features. Hope to see you there!
Great to see a Cinerama camera into action again. I have seen all of the Cinerama films (but the Brothers Grimms one) at the Paris Empire Cinerama theater in their time, and also the first two Kinopanoram film at the Paris Kinopanoram theater.
Tonight I was just watching "How the West Was Won" on Blu Ray with the "Smilebox" process on my new 55" LCD TV. Unfortunatly, although large for a TV, it's not quite large enough for Cinerama !
I've found and original Gaumont theatre program where it shows a huge Super Cinerama sign covering the front of the building! I'll sent you a scan of it and the pictures of the same theatre today!
I´ll take some pictures ! There was also a 3 projector Cinerama Theatre but it´s been a parking lot for several years. It was called "Cine Teatro Casino". One of my teachers told me a few years ago that at some time people at some old laboratory were using the magnetic soundtrack from "This is cinerama" for practicing splices on 35mm films...
It's really amazing to see the Cinerama Camera working! I work at a Production company in Argentina, and I've worked for several years as a camera assistant so I know all the process from shooting to final cut and I would LOVE to be involved in such an adventure! I live two blocks away from an old movie theatre that still has it's original Super Cinerama screen!
Thanks for your kind words. We're fairly excited about seeing this on the big, BIG screen at the ArcLight Cinerama Dome Theatre here in Hollywood when it premieres in September during the Cinerama Festival. Do you have any photos of that theatre near you? Would love to see it.
@MichaelJCahill Looking at how the camera is designed I’d like to see screen that is curved as far as it can go on the front then have second half wrapping around from behind with rear field view even if the audience isn’t looking that way
Next third part of image placed uniformly overhead would the fish eye lens work for that? And lastly to top it off an image underneath the audience and if it was an outer space film we should see space darkness and stars all around above behind and below
Well that makes sense I’ve carred reels of 35mm cans up a few flight stairs and you’d think at first it wouldn’t weigh much. What speed is the film passing though the camrea as I can hear the motors turn on it or was that rewind? Cinerama was before my time.
The Cinerama camera's standard operating speed is a slightly higher-than-normal 26 frames per second. There is a companion article about this film shoot on the In70mm web site.
The sound you heard was the three camera magazine motors running in concert with the flying shutter. It's a fairly noisy machine but that was all filming. I talk about that in detail in the In70mm article. There is typically no Rewind function on a motion picture camera.
In point of fact the Cinerama Camera, with all three magazines fully loaded, weighs in at 358 lbs. The fellow making the comment about this short only playing on film is the director Dave Strohmaier. Thanks for your interest.
John Harvey resurrected CINERAMA, first in his house and later at the New Neon Movies in Dayton, OH. THIS IS CINERAMA and HOW THE WEST WAS WON were only supposed to run a short time, bu the shows kept being extended. It was just amazing to see him run 3 projectors and 1 sound dubber by himself. He truly loved the process.
Thanks, Dave S. for letting us see into your work.
@Kinopanorama1, It is worth noting that we would not be enjoying this video had it not been shot digitally, edited digitally, and uploaded digitally so we could watch it on our computers digitally. With respect, I disagree that digital should be dead. There is room for both.
@TheArtlloyd, Agreed. In fact it is also very telling that, were it not for digital restoration by Chace Sound of the Cinerama soundtracks, and the digital restorations by Strohmaier of all the Cinerama films, most of them would never have found their way back to modern audiences and a much deserved new lease on life. Digital and film should very much continue to work hand in hand. "Long live Cinerama" indeed -- thanks to the digital technology that kept them alive.
Amazing and good luck guys. Fred Waller, Lowell Thomas, dozens of other technicians and projectionist John Harvey would love to see this come back to life. Keep up the great work and I hope it is such a success that many more films get made and shown by this convex crew of the concave wonder!
I love this. Seeing the Cinerama camera in action is awesome! Does anyone know where I might buy one of those t-shirts they're all wearing in this video?
cbdebill4 2 weeks ago
I love this! When will we be able to see the film?
Sirrom0206 2 weeks ago
@Sirrom0206,
The production team will continue filming through the end of March 2012. There is a Cinerama Festival at the end of September this year in Hollywood at the ArcLight Cinerama Dome Theatre. During that festival this new film will be shown several times prior to several of the newly restored Cinerama features. Hope to see you there!
MichaelJCahill 2 weeks ago
Great to see a Cinerama camera into action again. I have seen all of the Cinerama films (but the Brothers Grimms one) at the Paris Empire Cinerama theater in their time, and also the first two Kinopanoram film at the Paris Kinopanoram theater.
Tonight I was just watching "How the West Was Won" on Blu Ray with the "Smilebox" process on my new 55" LCD TV. Unfortunatly, although large for a TV, it's not quite large enough for Cinerama !
78Dipar 3 weeks ago
I've found and original Gaumont theatre program where it shows a huge Super Cinerama sign covering the front of the building! I'll sent you a scan of it and the pictures of the same theatre today!
Thehouseofwax 1 month ago
@Thehouseofwax,
We'd love to see that. Yes, please send it along to the e-mail address at the end of the video. Many thanks!
MichaelJCahill 1 month ago
I´ll take some pictures ! There was also a 3 projector Cinerama Theatre but it´s been a parking lot for several years. It was called "Cine Teatro Casino". One of my teachers told me a few years ago that at some time people at some old laboratory were using the magnetic soundtrack from "This is cinerama" for practicing splices on 35mm films...
Thehouseofwax 1 month ago
@Thehouseofwax,
Ahhhggghhh!! -- For practicing SPLICES?!! Really?!!
Makes me cry..........
MichaelJCahill 1 month ago
It's really amazing to see the Cinerama Camera working! I work at a Production company in Argentina, and I've worked for several years as a camera assistant so I know all the process from shooting to final cut and I would LOVE to be involved in such an adventure! I live two blocks away from an old movie theatre that still has it's original Super Cinerama screen!
GREAT JOB GUYS!
Thehouseofwax 1 month ago
@Thehouseofwax ,
Thanks for your kind words. We're fairly excited about seeing this on the big, BIG screen at the ArcLight Cinerama Dome Theatre here in Hollywood when it premieres in September during the Cinerama Festival. Do you have any photos of that theatre near you? Would love to see it.
MichaelJCahill 1 month ago
Thanks for sharing!
Kozmo260 1 month ago
@MichaelJCahill Looking at how the camera is designed I’d like to see screen that is curved as far as it can go on the front then have second half wrapping around from behind with rear field view even if the audience isn’t looking that way
Next third part of image placed uniformly overhead would the fish eye lens work for that? And lastly to top it off an image underneath the audience and if it was an outer space film we should see space darkness and stars all around above behind and below
EmpireLS56KW 1 month ago
@EmpireLS56KW,
They actually have those already. They're called planetariums.
Except for the below part, that is. Still, I agree a 360 degree top-to-bottom experience would be fun. Thanks again for your interest.
MichaelJCahill 1 month ago
@MichaelJCahill
Well that makes sense I’ve carred reels of 35mm cans up a few flight stairs and you’d think at first it wouldn’t weigh much. What speed is the film passing though the camrea as I can hear the motors turn on it or was that rewind? Cinerama was before my time.
EmpireLS56KW 1 month ago
@EmpireLS56KW,
The Cinerama camera's standard operating speed is a slightly higher-than-normal 26 frames per second. There is a companion article about this film shoot on the In70mm web site.
The sound you heard was the three camera magazine motors running in concert with the flying shutter. It's a fairly noisy machine but that was all filming. I talk about that in detail in the In70mm article. There is typically no Rewind function on a motion picture camera.
MichaelJCahill 1 month ago
@EmpireLS56KW,
In point of fact the Cinerama Camera, with all three magazines fully loaded, weighs in at 358 lbs. The fellow making the comment about this short only playing on film is the director Dave Strohmaier. Thanks for your interest.
MichaelJCahill 1 month ago
John Harvey resurrected CINERAMA, first in his house and later at the New Neon Movies in Dayton, OH. THIS IS CINERAMA and HOW THE WEST WAS WON were only supposed to run a short time, bu the shows kept being extended. It was just amazing to see him run 3 projectors and 1 sound dubber by himself. He truly loved the process.
Thanks, Dave S. for letting us see into your work.
mlensenm 1 month ago
Been waiting for this day since HTWWW ended its runs!
veyoung093052 1 month ago
Digital should be dead, but unfortunately it is not. Long live Cinerama, CineMiracle and Kinopanorama.
Kinopanorama1 1 month ago
@Kinopanorama1, It is worth noting that we would not be enjoying this video had it not been shot digitally, edited digitally, and uploaded digitally so we could watch it on our computers digitally. With respect, I disagree that digital should be dead. There is room for both.
TheArtlloyd 1 month ago
@TheArtlloyd, Agreed. In fact it is also very telling that, were it not for digital restoration by Chace Sound of the Cinerama soundtracks, and the digital restorations by Strohmaier of all the Cinerama films, most of them would never have found their way back to modern audiences and a much deserved new lease on life. Digital and film should very much continue to work hand in hand. "Long live Cinerama" indeed -- thanks to the digital technology that kept them alive.
MichaelJCahill 1 month ago
Let's put a dent in the present digital takeover..show the masses how film is to be presented..
DSM1G90 1 month ago
Amazing and good luck guys. Fred Waller, Lowell Thomas, dozens of other technicians and projectionist John Harvey would love to see this come back to life. Keep up the great work and I hope it is such a success that many more films get made and shown by this convex crew of the concave wonder!
Larry Smith
larry41onebay 1 month ago
Just love the original music for this by composer Bryan D. Arata. Perfect match to the material.
MichaelJCahill 1 month ago