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 . The curing - up , which used three projectors to shake off out a vast image over a sieve which swept 146 - level arc , was well in front of its time . Just like 3D today , it necessitated specialist camera and far more thought than normal filming — but the effects were sensational .
It was supposed to be the future tense of picture palace but , perhaps clearly , its complexity was its downfall . If you do n’t believe us , check into out the animated cartoon of the film readiness - up required below . It makes IMAX calculate like child ’s play . [ Davird BordwellviaVerge ]
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