Live From the European Cinerama
Festival Tour |
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| Written by: Randy Gitsch. Pictures by: Tom March | Date: 02.05.2015 |
 Schauburg
Cinerama. Karlsruhe's curved screenIn Karlsruhe’s Schauburg Cinerama Theater, where the screen is curved 120 degrees, Smilebox® had viewers recalling seeing analog Cinerama in Berlin, when it first premiered there, in 3-strip projection, in 1959. Manager Herbert Born used his red velvet theater curtains to lead the digital curtains opening and closing on all our digital Cinerama shows for a premium presentation. |
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Innsbruck’s Leo Kino, where the screen is flat, Smilebox®, in conjunction
with Cinerama’s 3 lens image capture, created the illusion of a curved
screen for each show. Here host Dietmar Zingl used his vertical lift blue
curtains to lead Cinerama’s center-separating digital curtains on each show,
for a double dose of showmanship. |
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 Leo
Kino, InnsbruckDuring a rehearsal in the Leo Kino, pausing the show with the digital curtain closed and the theatrical curtain raised. Suddenly, the screen is curved. Smilebox® was created by Dave Strohmaier and is used on all of the 3-panel Cinerama release motion pictures being screened in the 2015 European Cinerama Festival Tour. |
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