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Flicker Alley presents
"This is Cinerama" and "Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich"
2017 Authorized Restorations |
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Date:
13.02.2018 |
This is Cinerama - 2017 Authorized Restoration
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Deluxe
Blu-ray
S.R.P. $27,95
This is Cinerama - 2017 Authorized Restoration
Format Blu-ray (NTSC)
Region All: A, B, C
Director Merian C. Cooper, Robert L. Bendick
Featuring Lowell Thomas
Composers Sidney Cutner, Howard Jackson, Paul Sawtell, Leo Shuken, Max
Steiner, Roy Webb
Year 1952
Language English
Length 127 minutes
UPC617311-684791
RELEASE DATE: MAY 8, 2018
Flicker Alley and Cinerama Inc. are pleased to announce the long-awaited
re-release of This is Cinerama, now beautifully restored from the original
three-panel, six-perforation camera elements. Presented in a deluxe Blu-ray
edition, this is the most extensive and thorough restoration yet of the film
that changed the shape and sound of the movies forever!
On the evening of September 30, 1952, This is Cinerama premiered at the
Broadway Theatre in New York City. Robert C. Ruark of The New York World
Telegram said of the event: “I have just looked at the movies’ answer to
television, whether or not the movies know it yet.” Indeed, this unique,
widescreen process was launched when television was deemed a major threat to
US film exhibition. Fred Waller, Cinerama’s creator, dreamed of a motion
picture experience that would recreate the full range of human vision. Using
three cameras and three proctors on a curved screen 146° deep, Cinerama
created an immersive cinematic event, wowing 20 million viewers in its
original roadshow version.
Now, audiences can experience the forerunner to all modern widescreen
formats once again, and in a brand-new, definitive restoration. From Venice
to Madrid, from Edinburgh Castle to the La Scala opera house in Milan, and
all across America in the nose of a B-25 bomber, travel around the world
with Cinerama, presented in the one-and-only Smilebox® curved screen
simulation.
• Go to A new restoration of “This is Cinerama”
Bonus Materials Include:
• Audio Commentary - With John Sittig (Cinerama Inc.), David Strohmaier
(Cinerama Restorer), Randy Gitsch (Cinerama Historian), and Jim Morrison
(original crew member)
• The Best in the Biz - Updated hour-long documentary about the composers of
Cinerama
• Restoring This is Cinerama - A detailed, behind-the-scenes look at the
brand-new restoration
• Alternate European Opening to Act Two - A European-oriented segue into the
second half of the film, featuring the panoramic view of the United States
from the nose of a B-25 bomber plane
• Cinerama Everywhere - A French-produced short on the Cinerama tent shows
in Europe
• Tribute to the New Neon Movies - A short film celebrating an Ohio theater
where a projectionist revived Cinerama through special screenings for people
from all over the country
• Radio Interview with Cinerama Creator, Fred Waller - Recorded on the eve
of opening night; accompanied by a slideshow of selected Cinerama images
• This is Cinerama Trailer - An updated recreation of the original
theatrical trailer, edited with newly-restored clips
• Cinerama Returns to the Cinerama Dome (2002 Announcement Trailer) -
Promotional short for the 50th anniversary of Cinerama and its return to the
fabled Cinerama Dome in Hollywood
• “Breakdown Reel” - Footage originally projected interstitially during the
interruptions of any Cinerama performance
• TV Spots - Original television ads for This Is Cinerama and Seven Wonders
of the World
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More in 70mm reading:
Major restoration of “WINDJAMMER: THE VOYAGE
OF THE CHRISTIAN RADICH” at the Cinerama Dome, Saturday April 28, 2018
2018 European Cinerama Cinema
Engagements
“WINDJAMMER” to set sail soon
in a new digital version
Re-constructing
“The Best of Cinerama”. And a new restoration of “This is Cinerama”
Flicker Alley presents "The Best
Of Cinerama" And "Cinerama’s Russian Adventure"
Flicker Alley presents CINERAMA
HOLIDAY and SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE
Cinerama,
Dave Strohmaier and the "We have all seen it as a kid" thing
Interview
with producer Randy Gitsch
Cinerama Remaster
in70mm.com's Cinerama page
Internet link:
Flicker Alley, LLC | 6671 W Sunset Blvd | Suite 1523 | Los Angeles | CA
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Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich - 2017 Authorized Restoration
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Deluxe
Blu-ray
S.R.P. $27,95
Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich - 2017 Authorized
Restoration
Format Blu-ray (NTSC)
Region All: A, B, C
Director Louis De Rochemont, Bill Colleran
Featuring Bjørn Amvik, Arne Andersen, Per Antonsen
Score by Morton Gould
Arrangements / conducter Jack Shaindlind
Year 1958
Language English
Length 142 minutes
UPC617311-684890
RELEASE DATE: MAY 8, 2018
At a star-studded premiere at Grauman’s World Famous Chinese Theater in
Hollywood, Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich sailed into movie
history on April 8th, 1958. The brainchild of National Theatres, who hoped
to compete with rival widescreen sensation Cinerama, Windjammer was the
first (and eventually, the only) film to use the Cinemiracle process.
Utilizing proprietary widescreen technology accompanied by seven-channel
audio, Cinermiracle was the perfect format to tell the sweeping adventure of
the Christian Radich, a Norwegian square-rigger, and her crew.
Now newly restored from original camera elements, the color, the music, and
the true artistry of this classic are reborn in a definitive Blu-ray
edition. Embarking from Oslo, Norway, the Christian Radich sets out across
the Atlantic with a storm-tossed stop in Madeira, where New Year’s
festivities entice the young crewmen to enjoy Portuguese musical
celebrations and heart racing rides in basket sleds down steep cobblestone
streets. After that, it is on to Willemstad, Curacao, where young sailors
take part in Dutch festivities. They catch a courtyard performance of Pablo
Casals in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, they’re
greeted by native steel bands and Calypso singers. By the time they arrive
in New York, the Cinemiracle cameras offer a kaleidoscopic treat of color
and sound created by famed photographer Arthur “Weege” Fellig. A later
encounter with the U.S. Navy Task Force makes for a grand promenade of
ships, and when underwater shots of frogmen and a submarine emerge from the
depths to reveal the Windjammer on the open sea, Cinemiracle becomes the
true star of this breathtaking story. Presented in Smilebox® curved screen
format, audiences are once again able to rediscover and re-appreciate this
timeless and newly-restored cinema gem!
• Go to “WINDJAMMER” to set sail
soon in a new digital version
Bonus Materials Include:
• The Windjammer Voyage: A Cinemiracle Adventure - A documentary by
historian Dave Strohmaier on the film’s production
• The Reconstruction of Windjammer - A behind the scenes look at the
reconstruction and restoration of Windjammer from the original Cinemiracle
camera elements
• The Windjammer Breakdown Reel
• The Christian Radich Today - A modern look at the famous ship at the
Aalbourg, Denmark Tall Ships Festival in 2010
• Windjammer Trailer - New re-creation from the original 1958 release
trailer
• Windjammer Behind The Scenes Slideshow - Images from the production of the
film
• Cinemiracle Showplaces Slideshow - A look at the unique venues that
screened Windjammer
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More in 70mm reading:
Major restoration of “WINDJAMMER: THE VOYAGE
OF THE CHRISTIAN RADICH” at the Cinerama Dome, Saturday April 28, 2018
“WINDJAMMER” to set sail soon
in a new digital version
Cinerama Remaster
Louis de Rochemont's
"Windjammer" produced in Cinemiracle
in70mm.com's Cinerama page
Cinerama,
Dave Strohmaier and the "We have all seen it as a kid" thing
Interview
with producer Randy Gitsch
Internet link:
Flicker Alley
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About Flicker Alley, LLC
Flicker Alley, LLC was founded in 2002 by Jeff Masino. Each Flicker Alley
publication is the culmination of hundreds of hours of research, digital
restoration, graphic design, music composition and scoring. Collectively,
they reflect the creativity, expertise, and shared passion of many talented
collaborators. The Flicker Alley brand has grown to enjoy national and
international critical acclaim. The company is a four-time recipient of the
National Society of Film Critics Film Heritage Award for publishing "rare
early U.S. and foreign silent film."
About Cinerama Inc.
Cinerama, Inc., which produced and released films in the three-strip
Cinerama process, is a part of Decurion Corporation, which also owns
ArcLight Cinemas and Pacific Theatres. Cinerama is the trademarked name for
the widescreen process, which works by simultaneously projecting images from
three synchronized, 6-perf 35mm projectors, allowing for a 50% higher and
150% wider image. Previously released Cinerama titles on DVD and Blu-ray
include This is Cinerama (1952), Windjammer (1958), South Seas Adventure
(1958), Cinerama Holiday (1955), Seven Wonders of the World (1956), and
Search for Paradise (1957).
About the SmileBox® Curved Screen Format
These Cinerama publications are set up in a format which illustrates to a
modern audience how different and special the Cinerama experience was when
originally exhibited in theatres. The innovative curved screen "look" used
in these Cinerama remasterings was developed and designed with input from
film historians, award winning 3D graphics experts, digital engineers, and
Oscar winning cinematographers. From this effort, SmileBox® was developed to
take full advantage of the HD 16 x 9 frame, and yet maintain a 146 degree
effect that would approximate what people saw in Cinerama theaters. Owing to
certain limitations, the producers believe that this SmileBox® format will
approximate a “Cinerama effect” on flat 16 x 9 monitors, or when projected
on screen.
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