This is Cinerama

Just i made a clip nostalgic about Cinerama, i was very impressed first when i was a litle kid i saw the 3 strip screen in Buenos Aires at Cinerama Casino i remember Tis is... Greem Brothers ..., later when i was a teenager in the 70s reduced in 70 mm. at cine Gaumont , i Remember "This is .." 7 Wonders, Russian Adventure(vacaciones en rusia), in 70mm Karakatoa east to Java.
*** It starts with a basic 35-millimeter screen. Lowell Thomas, famed world traveler, narrates a very long black-and-white documentary on the history of art, from early cave paintings through 19th-century attempts at motion pictures. We are given the impression that all that has gone before had but one goal to attain--the miraculous achievement Thomas has been leading up to for ten tedious minutes--Cinerama! With a sudden smash cut to full color, the screen suddenly widens to three times its previous size as we enter a roller coaster, go up the ramp, then find ourselves hurtling at breakneck speed back down to a chorus of screams from the unseen patrons (we're in the front car) in the most memorable and famous point-of-view shot of all time.
The medium was definitely the message. There was absolutely no story in This Is Cinerama. In addition to the roller coaster, the audience watched a ballet, a helicopter ride over Niagara Falls, and a church organ service (with a locked-off camera, making for one of the dullest segments ever put on film -- audiences, however, were enchanted). A gondola ride in Venice, bagpipes in Scotland, the Vienna Boy's Choir, and a bullfight in Spain, plus a ho-hum segment at Florida's Cypress Gardens, were all on the program. There were two excellent numbers. The first was a visit to La Scala Opera House in Italy, where we witnessed a spectacular performance of Aida with what seemed like half of Italy in the chorus. The second was the film's final segment, which featured a stirring flyover of the United States, including forests, wheatfields, the Golden Gate, and the Grand Canyon, all set to the music of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

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[antoniorosacarmen]

Deberian de vender en DVD todas las películas emitidas en CINERAMA. Empezando por la primera que fué THIS IS CINERAMA y las siguientes LAS 7 MARAVILLAS DEL MUNDO, VIAJE A LOS MARES DEL SUR, etc. En total fueron 6 o 7 y luego, la primera con argumento fué LA CONQUISTA DEL OESTE, etc. pro a mí me interesan las primeras documentales que fué como en mi adolescencia empezé a viajar por el mundo. Las veía 7 u 8 veces. !Qué gozada! y qué nolstalgia. A nadie se le ocurre comercializarlas?. Saludos. MAD.

[AdolfoHaggen]

@antoniorosacarmen En Estados Unidos y tienen 3 películas de Cinerama en DVD. How the west was won (la conquista del oeste) Windjammer y ahora This is Cinerama. Pero a mi me cuesta conseguirlas porque vivo en Argentina. Gracias por tu apreciado comentario. Saludos cordiales

[wblgoalie33]

what music is playing?

[AdolfoHaggen]

@wblgoalie33 This is the INTERMISSION music by Roy Webb -- - and introduction by Lowell Thomas music by Max Steiner at first.

[Kinopanorama1]

@AdolfoHaggen You are incorrect. I have the Harry Fox Agency cue sheets. The intermission music is by Max Steiner, as is the case with the introduction. Roy Webb composed most of the music for the Cyprus Gardens sequences.

[AdolfoHaggen]

@Kinopanorama1 Thank you for the correction. we´ve got the trailer now! search This is Cinerama, Trailer --- Greetings

[3dclaudio]

"This Is"...Was my first and unic movie-show in real Cinerama at San Paolo - Brazil on the last triplex presentation in 1966! I had only 4 years-old...Ma'young mother,24, and died than afterdays...Just imagine the giant-O-rama screen, bright on the my little eyes,child,baby-face...Amazing­,Stonich Stereosound,Beauty...Yes! I remember, mama! God! Thank You Cinerama-Mammy!

Padma Karmann

[squirell1952]

@earlymusicus : I quite agree with you about Cinerama v. Imax. The latter has a postage -stamp-size screen compared to the former! Wouldn't you LOVE to see THE SOUND OF MUCUS/MUSIC in 3D at a Cinerama cinema??? And in surround sound? In second thoughts, no! Even so, let them bring back some of the great classics, both BW and colour. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE. And show them on a double-bill. Remember the double-bills?? Yeah, me, too. Des, June 5, 2011.

[squirell1952]

DEAR SIR OR MADAMA: Nobody believe me but I saw the first remake of STAGE-

COACH (made about 1966) in Cinerama when it was re-released in the early 1970s. I also saw the John Wayne movie, SONS OF KATIE ELDER, in Cinerama, too. This was in Dublin. Oh, and I saw THE GODFATHER: Part 1 in Dublin' s Cinerama cinema, as well. Surely EVERY movie could be reissued in Cinerama. Just think of the lovely evening that could be enjoyed by all. The worst part of ANY cinema is the popcorn.

[Thehouseofwax]

Genial tu aporte Adolfo!!! Yo vivo a pasos del Cine Gaumont y cada vez que paso trato de imaginarme lo que era ver una pelicula en Cinerama ahi!



[djdazzy]

This is Cinerama is being show the first Saturday of every month in Bradford UK.