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Monday, 11 June 2018

Cinerama, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford

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Deeply curved screen for the Cinerama widescreen process. Images are projected from three separate 35mm film projectors to different parts of the screen where they formed a single image. Anamorphic lenses were not used unlike later processes (e.g. single camera 70mm Cinemascope). The process required three cameras as well and only a handful of films were made. Cinerama was one of many innovations in the 1950s to combat the rise of television viewing. Prior to the various wide-screen formats introduced in this era movies were filmed in 4:3 (also.used on old non-widescreen televisions) and the marginally wider Academy/1:1.375 aspect ratio This screen is at the Science and Media Museum in Bradford where Europe's only public Cinerama screen and projection facilities exist. I think the film I am watching here (South Seas Adventure) was digitally projected, but the Media Museum does retain physical film projectors which they use occasionally to show old Cinerama prints.

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