Description: Excellent condition. No images scanned yet. Note: there are two OCR-algorithms you can select between. Asgård and Ceylon. Both are good algorithms. If you get blank with one, try the other ----------- 2 ----------- PROGRAM THIS IS CINERAMA A LOWELL THOMAS AND MERIAN C. COOPER CINERAMA PRESENTATION Produced by Merian C. Cooper and Robert L. Bendick PROLOGUE Lowell Thomas, as narrator, speaking from a regular motion picture screen, welcomes the audience to Cinerama and briefly sketches its development. In his famous easy style, he explains how man has worked since the dawn of history to reproduce in art the illusion of depth and dimension in nature, to convey the sense of living motion. His preface ranges from early cave paint- ings to magic lanterns, nickleodeons and silent pictures, and is climaxed when the screen suddenly explodes to six times its normal size and Thomas announces that THIS IS CINERAMA! THE ATOM SMASHER The world's fastest, steepest, most exciting ride-on the famed roller-coaster at Rockaways' Playland-is the sensation that in- troduces Cinerama, drawing the audience foot by foot up the precipitous incline, poising for an instant high above the midway and the breakers far below, and then taking the breathless plunge -into a whole new world of entertainment. THE TEMPLE DANCE In the Temple of Vulcan, the priestesses perform the insinuating ritual dance to the great god Ptah in the exotic first act finale of Verdi's "Aida." Filmed in Milan, on the great stage of La Scala, Cinerama captures the world's most famous opera company in a performance of the world's most famous opera. ----------- 2 ----------- NIAGARA FALLS The wonder of the New World—the spectacular falls that divides New York and Canada-is seen as it has never been seen before, as Cinerama takes its audience aloft in a helicopter and views the thunderous beauty of Niagara from the sky, presenting for the first time on the screen America's greatest spectacle in all its natural grandeur. LONG ISLAND CHOIR Long before Cinerama reached the public, inventor Fred Waller made an experimental black-and-white sequence of the Long Island Choral Society singing the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's "Messiah." Astonishingly lifelike in its evocation of the actual sights and sounds of a simple church service, the scene is included just as it was shot in "This is Cinerama" and remains one of the most moving and effective sequences in the picture. THE CANALS OF VENICE Cinerama boards a gondola for a languorous tour of "the queen of the Adriatic," gliding beneath the ancient footbridges and brushing past the mildewed palaces of the doges as it makes its tortuous way along the narrow canals to the glittering spectacle of St. Mark's Square and the colorful pageant of the famed September Carnival on the Grand Canal. GATHERING OF THE CLANS Within the imposing shadow of historic old Edinburgh Castle, the kilted clans of Scotland assemble to the shrill music of the bag- pipes, as the highlanders pass in review before the Cinerama camera in a kaleidoscopic swirl of color and sound. ----------- 4 ----------- LOWELL THOMAS "The most familiar voice in history," Lowell Thomas has won fame not only as a newscaster but also as an explorer who has penetrated virtually every remote corner of the earth, the author of more than 40 books, and, now, the man behind one of the most revolutionary developments in the entertainment world. A combat correspondent in World War I, he gained national celebrity in 1924 when his account of his adventures with Lawrence of Arabia was published, and he has continued to make news, as well as broadcast it, ever since. His most exciting exploit? Cinerama. FRED WALLER The man "who blew up the movies" is a mild-mannered bespectacled gentleman in his sixties whose long. list of inventions include water skis, a wind indicator, a camera that takes a 360° picture, and the famous Photo-Metric device that measures a man for a suit of clothes in a fiftieth of a second. Cinerama is the result of more than fifteen painstaking years of research and development, which began when Waller was head of Paramount's special effects department and started seeking a mechanical means of reproducing on a screen virtually the entire range of human vision. ROBERT L. BENDICK Robert L. Bendick, the young co-producer of "This Is Cinerama," brought to the challenging assignment of making the first picture in the new medium a colorful background as combat cameraman, writer, and television executive. As head of the News and Special Events Department of CBS, he was responsible for the first telecast of the national Republican and Democratic Conventions in 1948, the first televised baseball game, and a series of programs on the United Nations which won for him the Peabody Award, television's highest honor. ----------- 4 ----------- INERAMA MERIAN C. COOPER One of Hollywood's most adventurous (and successful) pioneers, Merian C. Cooper began his motion picture career with the epoch making documentaries "Grass" and "Chang", has since continued to make film history by producing and/or directing more than 75 features, climaxed by "THIS IS CINERAMA" for which he was both co-producer and co-director. Off the screen he has pursued an equally dramatic career as one of aviation's early and most enthusiastic supporters. A veteran airman himself, "Coop" served during World War II as Chief of Staff, respectively, for Generals Chennault, Kenny and Whitehead. HAZARD E. REEVES What Fred Waller is to Cinerama, Hazard Reeves is to CineramaSound, the unique sound system that completes Cinerama's breathtaking illusion of reality. In 1928 Reeves I arrived in New York with an engineering degree from Georgia Tech and two years later opened his own recording studio that soon grew into the largest in the east. When war came along Reeves and his associates founded Reeves-Ely Laboratories to make electronic products, and by the end of the war had won the Army-Navy "E" Award four separate times. He is now president of Reeves Soundcratt Studio. ----------- 5 ----------- ON DS E CREDITS MUSICAL DIRECTOR Louis Forbes, CAMERAMAN Harry Squire, ASST. CAMERAMAN Jack Priestly, SOUND Richard J. Pietschmann, Jr., FILM EDITOR Bill Henry, PAINTINGS Mario Larrinaga SOUND EFFECTS Reeves Sound Studios SUPERVISED BY MICHAEL TODD AND MICHAEL TODD, JR. SUPERVISED BY WALTER THOMPSON SUPERVISED BY FRED RICKEY PILOTED BY PAUL MANTZ, AIR SPEED RECORD HOLDER CINERAMA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, VIENNA PHILHARMONIC, SALT LAKE CITY TABERNACLE CHOIR, VIENNA BOYS CHOIR, THE LONG ISLAND CHORAL SOCIETY ----------- 6 ----------- In the beginning there was the stage, then the motion picture, followed by radio and television. Then, with the impact of an atomic bomb, Fred Waller's invention added Cinerama to the world of the arts, and overnight changed the course of entertainment history. The picture makers of Hollywood quickly realized the all-enveloping nature of the revolution that hit the motion picture industry. Something completely new had been added. The whole world was opened up by Cinerama. Its three-eyed camera burst out of the flat frame that enclosed conventional film story telling. The illusion of depth and the sense of movement that Cinerama provided was as real as depth or movement itself. Audience participation-the idea of making people a part of the stage's action or the screen's action-as old a quest as the search of the medieval alchemist for gold, or our strivings for perpetual motion-became a very real fact. Thus, Cinerama can roam the world as no kind of film making ever did, and can bring it to you. Thus, Cinerama, making its audience a part of its magic, uses people and their emotions as no other process ever could. In other words, Cinerama can take you as far and as wide as your own imagination. And it can be so close to your heart and so much a part of you, and you so much a part of it, that it is your heart. To repeat, Cinerama changed the course of history. It was introduced in a film without a story and without a star. It was a film in which Cinerama was the star. What it was and what it is was made clear-a "wrap around" or "see more" entertainment, in which you see almost as much as the human eye can see. To this was added a new sound system that was almost as much as the human ear can hear. It was the ultimate, a luxury entertainment planned for twenty or thirty major cities, for luxury theatres that lent themselves to the demands of its engineering requirements. Cinerama is not meant for local or neighborhood theatres, but as a special event to be enjoyed once or twice a year as new Cinerama productions are available. It is a kind of Metropolitan Opera of the screen. This was Cinerama's contribution to history. But to add one more thought. It is that the same engineering minds that created the pioneering revolution that gave us all of these new processes are still a part of Cinerama's creative family. Cinerama's story telling possibilities have barely been touched. They are limitless. The days of revolutions are not past. They are still with us, and with Cinerama. Наг Ree HAZARD E. REEVES President, Cinerama, Incorporated
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