This Is Cinerama (1952)

Directors

Merian C. Cooper

Cast

Lowell Thomas

The story

The film begins in black and white and the standard Academy ratio (also presented in mono sound) as travel writer and newscaster Lowell Thomas appears to discuss the evolution of film entertainment, from the earliest cave paintings designed to suggest movement to the introduction of color and sound. At the conclusion of the 12-minute lecture, Thomas speaks the words "This Is Cinerama" and the screen expands into the full Cinerama 2.65:1 aspect ratio and full color as a series of vignettes, narrated by Thomas, begins. The film includes point-of-view scenes of the Atom Smasher roller coaster from the Rockaways' Playland, then moves on to a…

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