Cinerama: The Future of Movies That Never Was
Back in the fifties , the movie theater was a venue for radical experimentation . As the dwelling television set kept people root to their lounge and out of movie theatre , Hollywood was bluff in the way it used technology to lure people back to the silver screenland . Cinerama was just one of those approximation — but one that crash and burned . David Bordwell takes a wonderful trip down memory lane in hislong and nuanced postabout what was right and wrong about Cinerama ....