Windjammer 1958 New York City & The City of Philadelphia Fire Department

This is a clip of 1958 New York City and includes a ride on an antique fire engine with the city of Philadelphia Fire Department. There is even a view of a jump from a tall building window into a net! Notice the effect in this clip of the three cameras and screens! Wilbur de Paris and His New Orleans Jazz Band perform Dixie and the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Morton Gould's lively "New York" is also heard performed by the Cinemiracle Symphony Orchestra. Photography by "Weegee".
Taken from the 1958 spectacular "Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich", the first movie presentation in CINEMIRACLE. Cinemiracle was a widescreen cinema format competing with Cinerama developed in the 1950s. It was ultimately unsuccessful, with only a single film produced and released in the format. Like Cinerama it used 3 cameras to capture a 2.59:1 image. Cinemiracle used two mirrors to give the left and right cameras the same optical center as the middle camera.
This movie was a documentary film of a training cruise of the full-rigged S/S Christian Radich from Oslo across the Atlantic, through the Caribbean, to New York and back home again. "Windjammer" was produced by Louis De Rochemont and directed by his son Louis De Rochemont III. The world premiere of both Windjammer and the Cinemiracle system was at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on 8 April 1958. The film ran for 36 weeks. Windjammer was later transferred to the Cinerama format, and even to Cinemascope.
The crew consisted of the captain Yngvar Kjelstrup, 16 officers, 42 teenage cadets and the mascot dog Stump. They traveled 17, 500 miles.
This is truly one of my favorite movies since I was a child.
I grew up listening to the soundtrack of this movie and this had a great deal to do with my love for sea shanties, ships and the ocean.

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[mikemcgee]

I' wondering if this was a success back then . This was the type of film that you saw in school at class on a bell and howell 16m projector

[LoreneFaith]

@mikemcgee It was very much a success back then. We had the box set of the record soundtrack with matching book of the movie production. I still have it.

[KinopanoramaWPA]

It will be great to see this sequence, which was the work of "Weegee", a noted photographer, in the restored DVD and Blu-ray release, which is scheduled for 2011.

[LoreneFaith]

@KinopanoramaWPA Yes indeed it will be wonderful to see this entire movie in its restored glory. I am anxiously waiting for the word on when in 2011 it will be. Thank you for the information regarding the photographer who photographed this sequence. I will add him to the clip description and to the keywords.

[Glinkaism1]

@mikemcgee I'm puzzled. This was a big time Cinerama process movie. The soundtrack album is utterly fantastic. I have it on vinyl. Nothing like this tiny crap. Oy!