Cinerama is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen, subtending 146° of arc.
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10 Facts About Cinerama
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Cinerama was presented to the public as a theatrical event, with reserved seating and printed programs, and audience members often dressed in their best attire for the evening.
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Three-strip Cinerama did not use anamorphic lenses, although two of the systems used to produce the 70mm prints did employ anamorphics.
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However, in Cinerama, this resulted in the center picture constantly moving slightly relative to each of the side pictures.
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Cinerama projectors used a device to slightly blur the join lines to make the jitter less noticeable.
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The use of Ultra Panavision 70 for certain scenes later printed onto the three Cinerama panels, proved that a more or less satisfactory wide screen image could be photographed without the three cameras.
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Consequently, Cinerama discontinued the three film process, with the exception of a single theater showing Cinerama's Russian Adventure, an American-Soviet co-production culled from footage of several Soviet films shot in the rival Soviet three-film format known as Kinopanorama in 1966.
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The films shot in Ultra Panavision for single lens Cinerama presentation were It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Battle of the Bulge, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Hallelujah Trail and Khartoum .
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Some films were shot in the somewhat lower resolution Super Technirama 70 process for Cinerama release, including Circus World and Custer of the West .
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Cinerama company exists today as an entity of the Pacific Theatres chain.
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