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Saturday, 13 October 2018

Cinerama 3-strip film at National Science and Media Museum

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I watched How the West Was Won (1962) today shown using the original three-strip Cinerama system. Cinerama used three 35mm cameras mounted side-by-side to film (hence the joins) and three projectors to display the movie on a heavily curved screen (146°). This was the last movie filmed with the orginal cumbersome and expensive format, although further 'Cinerama' movies were made and shown into the early '70s but they were filmed and projected using simpler single 70mm camera and projector systems using anamorphic lenses. There are only a handful of cinemas remaining in the world which can show three panel Cinerama films.

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