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On the evening of September 30, 1952,
the shape and sound of movies changed forever with the introduction of Cinerama.

This unique widescreen process was launched when television was deemed as major threat to US film exhibition.

Fred Waller, Cinerama's creator, had indeed labored that long on his dream of a motion picture experience that would recreate the full range of human vision.

It used three cameras and three projectors on a curved screen 146° deep.

1952 / 127 minutes Presented in the "Smilebox' curved screen simulation FA 6774 UPC: 617311677496 ISBN: 1-893967-74-3 Available: Sep. 25, 2012.   shop more stores:	This Is Cinerama Flicker Alley and Cinerama invite you to experience the digital premier of THIS IS CINERAMA in a deluxe combo Blu-ray/DVD edition (Region Free) Directed by Robert L. Bendick; A Lowell Thomas and Merian C. Cooper Cinerama Presentation In celebration of the 60th Anniversary of its premiere, Flicker Alley is proud to present THIS IS CINERAMA, exactly as seen by over 20,000,000 viewers in its original roadshow version. You will travel around the world with Cinerama, from Venice to Madrid, from Edinburgh Castle to the La Scala opera house in Milan, and concluding with a flight across America in the nose of a B-25 bomber.  Bonus Features Include: Audio commentary track: With John Sittig (Cinerama, Inc.), Dave Strohmaier (Cinerama Historian), Randy Gitsch (TIC Locations background), and special audio recording from Jim Morrison(original crew member). This Is Cinerama Breakdown Reel - 9 min. Alternate Act II Opening for European Versions - 2 min. This Is Cinerama Trailer re-created HD - 3 min. TV Spots: This is Cinerama and Seven Wonders of the World - 1 min. each Tribute to the New Neon Movies: A video short celebrating the Cinerama revival in Dayton Ohio, 1996-1999, in which a lone projectionist sets up Cinerama for special screenings to people from all over the country. - 14 min. Tribute to the New Cooper: The first Super Cinerama Theater - 4 minutes Special Photo Galleries: featuring behind the scenes shots, the original program booklet and press memorabilia newspaper ads, and publicity stills Fred Waller Radio interviews audio only: Original 1952 radio interviews with Fred Waller on the eve of opening night. - 15 mins.
1958 / 142 minutes Presented in the "Smilebox' curved screen simulation FA 6775 UPC: 617311677595 ISBN: 1-893967-75-1 Availble: Sep, 25, 2012	WINDJAMMER: The Voyage of Christian Radich WINDJAMMER -- Louis De Rochemont's Cinemiracle Adventure -- Deluxe combo Blu-ray/DVD edition (Region Free) Come onboard the magnificent Norwegian square-rigger as it sails its spectacular 17,000 mile journey, manned by a crew of young sailors-in-training with all photographed in the widescreen splendor of Cinemiracle, Cinerama's only true competitor to thrill 1950's audiences by sheer size and clarity. Now digitally remastered, the color, the music, the true artistry of this classic is reborn. Bonus Features Include: New Documentary on the film's original production - 56 min. Mini documentary featuring before and after demos on the film's remastering - 14 mins. The Windjammer Breakdown Reel - 14 min. The Christian Radich Today at the Aalbourg Denmark Tall Ships Festival 2010 - 7 min. Windjammer Trailer - 3 mins. Special Photo Galleries featuring reproductions of the original Windjammer/Cinemiracle Booklet, Original Posters and promotional Graphics, Original Newspaper Ads, and production photos (and more!)
1955 / 129 minutes Presented in the "Smilebox' curved screen simulation FA 6782 UPC: 617311678295 ISBN: 1-893967-82-4 Availble: Nov 5, 2013	Cinerama Holiday Cinerama Holiday” was the 2nd of the original, 3-panel Cinerama travelogues. Released in 1955, the motion picture crisscrosses two hybridized travelogues of the “Cinerama camera accompanied” vacations of two adventurous, real-life, married couples. We meet first, Fred and Beatrice Troller, from Zurich, Switzerland, who upon their arrival on the first transatlantic flight to ever land in Kansas City, unload their motor scooter and begin a panoramic tour of America, which begins with them driving up Fremont Street in Las Vegas and catching a casino floor show. Meanwhile, Betty and John Marsh, leave their Kansas City home to take off on the same plane the Troller’s arrived on, for a return flight to Switzerland where this couple take in an outdoor ice show in St. Moritz, and where John rides a bobsled, beginning their European vacation. The latter of which provides just one of the film’s obvious, immersive, “thrill” sequences accentuated by the three-camera/curved-view format. The Swiss couple are awed by sights of the American west viewed from the “Vista-Dome” of a speeding California Zephyr train, ride a cable car in San Francisco, observe a New Orleans “jazz funeral”, a performance of “Tiger Rag” by Oscar Celestin, and visit a New England county fair, where the Ferris wheel provides another immersive cinematic experience. Meanwhile, the American couple ski the Swiss Alps with hundreds of fellow skiers, and thereafter discover the joy of singing and “fondue” in a Swiss tavern, and then move on to Paris, where they take in the Paris Opera, the Louvre, High Mass at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, a Grand Guignol puppet show, see the spring line in a fashion show, and a floor show in the famous Lido. Both couples meet up in New York City to “finish” their movie, so to speak, and are treated to a finale of the U.S. Navy’s “Blue Angels” performing near-supersonic aerial maneuvers and landing on an aircraft carrier. And all of that’s a Cinerama Holiday! Bonus Features Include: The original CINERAMA HOLIDAY breakdown reel, new interviews with original participants, original 8 mm home movies, a demonstration and comparison of the film’s restoration, an amazing scrapbook of images made during production, a booklet reproduction of an original program, and much more!
1958 / 128 minutes Presented in the "Smilebox' curved screen simulation FA 6783 UPC: 617311678394 ISBN: 1-893967-83-2 Availble: Nov 5, 2013	SouthSeas Adventure Five separate stories are dramatized, woven out of a series of theoretical, island-hopping voyages that start en route to Hawaii, and after traversing the South Seas as far as Australia, end up flying back home from Honolulu. In between, through both an adventurous shipboard passenger, a returning American WWII veteran, and the enthused narration, we're taken island hopping to stops in places lush, tranquil, and inviting, like Tahiti, Tonga and Fiji, then to and the even more exotic, primitive Pentecost Island. Native dancing and song are celebrated alongside cultures and customs spanning thousands of years. Sailing onward to New Zealand, we're reminded it's also an island, in fact two, with an unexpected geography including volcanoes and snow-covered mountain ranges. From there we' travel on to Australia, where we follow the arrival of a new European immigrant man and his young daughter, as they get accustomed to native animals like koalas and kangaroos, and then settle in for a new life in the "outback". There, they become integral in stories illustrating life in such isolated areas, including both the "School of the Air", a classroom conducted over the radio and the Flying Doctor Service, similarly radio-dispatched. Bonus Features Include: Includes interviews with original participants, a vintage Renault promotional film as originally presented in 3-panel Cinerama, clips from “In The Wake of Captain Cook,” a Carl Dudley short on the South Seas with behind the scenes filming of SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE, many behind the scene stills and promotional materials, a booklet reproduction of an original program, and much more!
1956 / 121 minutes Presented in the "Smilebox' curved screen simulation FA 6788 UPC: 617311678899 ISBN: 1-893967-88-3 Availble: Nov 18, 2014	Seven Wonders Of The World Of the seven sites the ancient Greeks named the “wonders of the world,” only one remains. SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD is a round-the-world adventure that picks up where the Greeks of antiquity left off. Released in 1956, this Cinerama spectacle follows 20th century adventurer Lowell Thomas as he seeks out the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. Join him as he flies across the globe in the “Smasher,” a converted B-25, capturing some of the most breathtaking photography ever shot. The quest opens at the great pyramids, the last of the original Seven Wonders to still exist. From there, the “Smasher” circles the globe with Cinerama photographing a live East Africa volcano, under the bridges in New York, over and around Rio de Janeiro, the Parthenon in Athens, Angel Falls in South America, and many stops along the way to experience the beautiful culture of diverse locales. The film encourages the audience to choose from the dozens of sites explored. "What are your seven wonders?" Flicker Alley and Cinerama, Inc. are proud to present SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD in the Smilebox® Curved Screen Simulation. Unseen theatrically since the early 1970s and never before broadcast or issued on home video, SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD has been digitally remastered from its original camera negatives. The global adventure captures the beauty and culture of these extraordinary places in a Cinerama time capsule. Bonus Features Include: This deluxe Blu-ray/DVD combo set comes complete with the original SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD breakdown reel - the same one used in its 1956 theatrical run. Also included are an image gallery, newsreel from the opening night in New York, a restoration demonstration on how the damaged negative was fixed, the Best in the Biz Cinerama composers documentary, the French Cinerama Everywhere short on Cinerama tent shows in Europe, a brand new SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD movie trailer, a black & white TV trailer, and a 1960 “abandoned” trailer.
1957 / 120 minutes Presented in the "Smilebox' curved screen simulation FA 6783 UPC: 617311678998 ISBN: 1-893967-89-1 Availble: Nov 18, 2014	Seach For Paradise Join Lowell Thomas and follow in the footsteps of Marco Polo in this new, digital restoration of SEARCH FOR PARADISE, the fourth of the original, 3-panel Cinerama travelogues. Released in 1957, the motion picture takes you to the “Roof of the World,” the Himalayas and Karakoram mountains of Central Asia, the highest region in the world. You’ll become part of the adventure as explorer Lowell Thomas searches for paradise in the ancient cities, wild waters, and lush gardens of the mountaintops. Your first stop is the Forbidden Kingdom of Hunza, a hidden valley bordered by China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, home to a legendary warrior tribe. Next, you’ll challenge the rapids of the Mighty Indus River, fed from a fantastic galaxy of great glaciers draining from some of the greatest heights known to man. From there, find respite in the romantic Shalimar Gardens in the Vale of Kashmir, then fly to Katmandu for the coronation ceremony of King Mahendra of Nepal. The adventure concludes with a trip to a U.S. Air Force base, where Thunderbird jet planes cut across the sapphire blue sky overhead at supersonic speed. Flicker Alley and Cinerama, Inc. are proud to present SEARCH FOR PARADISE in the Smilebox® Curved Screen Simulation. Unseen theatrically since the early 1970s and never before issued on home video, SEARCH FOR PARADISE has been digitally remastered from original camera negatives. The film captures the imagination and paradise would be, beauty or adventure or peace. Bonus Features Include: This deluxe Blu-ray/DVD combo set comes complete with the original SEARCH FOR PARADISE breakdown reel - the same one used in its 1956 theatrical run. Also included are a brand new movie trailer, image gallery, 1950s black & white announcement trailer, behind-the-scenes video of the Cinerama crew setting up for the Air Force base shoot, behind-the-scenes footage shot in 16mm on location in Nepal, a facsimile representation of an original program booklet, and a demonstration on how the original negatives were restored, a 1998 interview with director Otto Lang, David Coles’ SEARCH FOR PARADISE presentation, the 3-panel 2012 Cinerama short In The Picture, as well as The Last Days of Cinerama, which goes behind-the-scenes of the making of In The Picture.