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"Cinerama Adventure" update and credits
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This article first appeared on
in70mm.com
The 70mm Newsletter
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Written by:
Dave Strohmaier.
January 2002
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March 2002
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The documentary is in Director's cut and is 100 minutes long. A lot has
changed since the early versions. We have shown it around Los Angeles at several "test screenings" and also at professional documentary film maker
private screenings to get some needed feedback. It's all on history now with nothing on Bradford, Ohio or Seattle. Everyone told us to keep it
focused on the history of the process and how it changed the movies forever.
As it stands now there is very little "Fat" in the film, it moves pretty fast
and is very detailed on all the history and original Cinerama Pioneers.
It has been strongly suggested by many professional documentary producers that all that material we gathered on Bradford, Ohio, and Seattle is valuable
for "added value" and be put together in a "supplemental section" or special
features section for the DVD. We have put a title at the end that says "Due
to the efforts of preservationists Cinerama can be seen on special occasions
in Bradford England, Seattle Washington, and Hollywood, California." So far we have gotten wonderful response with this 100 minute version, most
people even said they had an emotional experience watching it.
At this point we still need finishing funds for Music rights and video on line, color correction and some special effects, but the film is at least
creatively finished now.
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Further in 70mm reading:
1st review of "The
Cinerama Adventure"
"Cinerama Adventure" update
Credits: Cinerama Remastered
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C . A . P R O D U C T I O N S , L L C
“CINERAMA ADVENTURE” CREDITS, CAST & SYNOPSIS
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An amazing documentary chronicling the nearly
lost three-camera, three-projector cinematic process which thrilled millions
of moviegoers worldwide, in the late 1950’s and early ‘60’s. When its films
captured, with a trio of wide-angle 27mm lenses, images then shown on a
gigantic, deeply curved screen, with, for the first time, 7-channel
stereophonic surround sound, audiences were enthralled by the crystal
clarity and immersive pull of the Cinerama experience. The effect
jump-started Hollywood to ever after adopt widescreen aspect ratios and
stereo sound for theatrical films.
Told by eyewitness accounts of those who not only saw, but participated in
the making of these larger than life films, “Cinerama Adventure”
historically delves into the American technology that led to the development
of the process, and the American psyche of the era that so appreciated its
filmed content, and sheer showmanship. It’s a filmic account of which
Variety’s Todd McCarthy said, “…not a beat seems to have been missed.”
As a technical first, “Cinerama Adventure” recombines three-panel images and
uniquely letterboxes the results, using a three dimensional graphic that
slightly stretches and squeezes the picture panels. Christened SmileBox®,
this process simulates an authentic curved screen viewing experience on any
flat screen, and also works on curved screens.
The process has subsequently been used on Warner Bros.’ 2008 Blue-ray
release of “How the West Was Won”, which features “Cinerama Adventure” as a
bonus feature.
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Here are the end credits as listed:
THE CINERAMA ADVENTURE
Through the efforts of preservationists the Cinerama process can now be seen
on special occasions in:
Bradford, England
Seattle, Washington
Hollywood, California
Produced and Directed by
David Strohmaier
Produced by
Randy Gitsch
Executive Producer
Carin-Anne Strohmaier
Co-Producer
Gary S. Hall
Production Associate
Mark A. Martin
Music by
John Morgan and William Stromberg
With special appearances by
Debbie Reynolds
Carroll Baker
Eli Wallach
Russ Tamblyn
Special thanks to
Pacific Theatres and Michael Forman for without their support this film
would not have been possible.
Consultant for Cinerama, Inc.
Gunther Jung
Written and Edited by
David Strohmaier
Camera Los Angeles and New York
Gerald Saldo
ADDITIONAL CAMERAMEN
Anchorage, Alaska – Greg Grant
Brinkley, Arkansas – John Mitchell
Chicago, Illinois – Dan Steger
Colorado Springs, Colorado – Britt Jones
Dayton, Ohio – Jim Prues
Hanover, New Hampshire – Paul Scrabo
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina – Mickey Youmans
Las Vegas, Nevada – Todd Fisher
Portal, Arizona – Rodney Diehl
Salt Lake City, Utah – Michael Droubay
Santa Monica, California – Lloyd Friedus
Bradford, England – Adrian Raistrick
Cheshire, England – John Chester
County Kildare, Ireland – Steve Shorten
Oslo, Norway – Morten Skallerud
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS AND SMILEBOX CREATED BY
Brian P. Ross
SMILEBOX LOGO
CINERAMA SEQUENCES RECONSTRUCTED BY
Greg Kimble
PRODUCTION CONSULTANT
Harrison Engle
ORIGINAL CINERAMA ENGINEERS
Richard Babish
John Caron
Wentworth Fling
John Primi
ORIGINAL CINERAMA PRODUCTION STAFF
Bob Bendick
David Blangsted
Gloria Tetzlaff Conroy
Saul Cooper
Louis de Rochemont III
Richard Goldstone
Walter Hanneman
Loren Janes
Norman Karlin
Otto Lang
Bob Morgan
Jim Morrison
David Pal
David Raksin
Gayne Rescher, A.S.C.
Jane MacLardy Schacht
Bernard Smith
Lowell Thomas, Jr.
Mike Todd, Jr.
FILM HISTORIANS
Rudy Behlmer
John Belton
Kevin Brownlow
Thomas Erffmeyer
Greg Kimble
A. C. Lyles
Leonard Maltin
Keith Swadkins
Roy Webb
EXHIBITION
John Harvey
Arthur Manson
Plato Skouras
Larry Smith
CINERAMA FANS & FRIENDS
John Butkovich
Richard Cooper
Joe Dante
Charles FitzSimons
Corky Fornoff
Frank Foulkes
Claude Johnson
Carol Dudley Katzka
Greg Mantz
Bill Martinez
Alex Reeves
Andrew Reisini
Howard Rust
Mariana Thomas
Bob Vergatta
RESEARCH
Jessica Berman-Bogdan
TJ Edwards
Susan Hormuth
Greg Kimble
Scott Marshall
Mark A. Martin
David Pierce
Stuart Galbraith IV
USC Warner Brothers Archives
Claire Keith, Marist College
Lowell Thomas Archives
James D’Arc, Brigham Young University
Merian C. Cooper Collection
John Sittig
Pacific Theatres & Cinerama, Inc. Archives
Marc Wanamaker
Bison Archives
Michael Friend and Barbera Hall
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
John Caron and Catherine Munroe
Fred Waller Family Archives
Greg Mantz
Paul Mantz Family Archives
Richard J. Sklenar
Theatre Historical Society of America
Mark Taylor
National Air & Space Museum
National Archives
Washington, D.C.
Autant-Lara Collection, Kevin Brownlow / Photoplay Prods.
Kevin Brownlow Colllection
Edwin Schober© 2005
Coolstock.com
Corbus-Bettmann
Fee Jacobson
South Dakota Historical Society
Bill Lawrence
National Museum of
Photography, Film & Television
Bradford, England
John Harvey
Cinerama Preservation Society
Keith Swadkins
The International Cinerama Society
Doug Haines
Friends of Cinerama
Leon Briggs, LB Film Consultants
UCLA Film and Television Archive
Mott Studios / S. Charles Lee Papers Collection
Dept. of Special Collections
Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA
Fox Movietonews, Inc.
The WPA Film Library
Historic Films
Producers Library Service
Grinberg Worldwide Images
The Douris Corp.
Jeff Joseph, SabuCat Productions
Milestone Film & Video, New Jersey
British Pathe plc
David Pierce
Twentieth Century Fox Film Library
Peter G. Kuran
VCE, Inc.
Michael Rose Productions, Inc.
Mitzi Cuputo and Karen Martin
Huntington Historical Society
Martin Hart
American WideScreen Museum
American Museum of the Moving Image
Museum of the City of New York
Mountain Light Gallery
Galen Rowell
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Kate Baker
Mark Baldock
Stacey Behlmer
David Bogorad
Willem Bouwmeester
Steven Boyd
Bill Brewington
Francois Carrin
Wendy Carter
David Coles
Fred Crawford
C. Chapin Cutler, Jr.
Turi deRochemont
Richard Ducar
Paul Evans
Dennis Furbush
Sheila Gibbons-Fly
Ormond Gigli
Lynn Hale
Bruce Handy
Thomas Hauerslev
Donald Henderson
Chris Holm
Paul Hrisko
Jim Hudson
Robert Jameson
John Johnson
Larry Karstens
Randal Kleiser
Jim Kroeper
Gene Kubat
John Steven Lasher
Roland Lataille
Matt Lutthans
Myra MacKay
Grace McCandless
Debra Marriott
Mark Miller
Dr. Maynard Miller
John Mills
John Mitchell
David Page
Marvin Paige
Bill and Stella Pence
Richard Prey
Randy Pryde
Ron Rutberg
Phil Sheridan
Louise Stevenson
Susan McCarthy Todd
Rick Utley
Richard Vincent
Museum of Flying, Santa Monica, California
Pius V Chapel, Oyster Bay, Long Island
Birthplace of Cinerama
Richard Crudo, A.S.C.
Steven Poster, A.S.C
John Hora, A.S.C
William A. Fraker, A.S.C.
Robert Primes, A.S.C
Roy H. Wagner, A.S.C
American Society of Cinematographers
and
Bob Fisher
Leon Silverman
and Christine Purse
LaserPacific Media Corporation
Eastman Kodak Company
Jonathan Williamson
ADDITIONAL THANKS TO
Leith Adams
Julie Heath
Brian Jamieson
Richard May
Roger Mayer
THE PRODUCERS ALSO WISH TO THANK WARNER BROS. AND TURNER ENTERTAINMENT, CO.
FOR PROVIDING CLIPS FROM
Bring ‘Em Back Alive
King Kong
How the West Was Won
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Grand Prix
2001: A Space Odyssey
AND PACIFIC THEATRES FOR PROVIDING CLIPS FROM
This Is Cinerama
Cinerama Holiday
Seven Wonders of the World
Search for Paradise
South Seas Adventure
Footage from Star Wars (Special Edition) courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox
and LucasFilm Ltd. All rights reserved.
Footage from Indiana Jones And the Temple of Doom courtesy of Viacom
Consumer Products, Paramount Pictures and LucasFilm Ltd. All rights
reserved.
Footage from Able Gance’s Napoleon courtesy of Robert A. Harris/ The Film
Preserve and American Zoetrope
SPECIAL THREE-PANEL TELECINE BY
Greg Kimble at Riot Colors
Marcie Malooly, General Manager
an Ascent Media Company
and at Crest National Digital Media Complex
by John Truckenmiller and Ron Feneis
SOUND DESIGNED BY
Technicolor Weddington Productions
Supervising Sound Editors
Richard L. Anderson, M.P.S.E.
James Morioka
Andrew Simon Sisul
Sound Effects Editors
Sheldon M. Bridge
James Christopher
Marvin Walowitz
Sound Effects Recordist – Nick Shaffer
Digital Assistant – Mark Coffey
Music Editorial – Erin Michael Rettig
Virtual Mix Studios
BG Predub – Mark Binder
POST SOUND FACILITY
Sound Trax Studios
Re-recording Mixer
Jeremy Hoenack, CAS
Re-recording with Sound Trax Virtual Mix ™
Mixed and Recorded in a
THX LOGO
THX Certified Facility
DOLBY SOUND CONSULTANTS
Andy Potvin
Russell H. Allen
MUSIC CLEARANCE BY
Diane Prentice Music Clearance, Inc.
PRODUCTION FACILITIES
Bayside Video, Santa Monica, California
POST PRODUCTION FACILITIES
LaserPacific Media Corporation
Associate Producer
Derek Bodkin
Color Timers
Bruce Pearson
Tom Overton
On-line Editors
Michael Weitzman and Val Eisleben
Don Montoure
Titles by
Shirley Knecht
Marsha Cohen
Fiscal Sponsorship by
The International Documentary Association
PRINTS BY
Technicolor®
DIGITAL FILM TRANSFER BY
Ascent Media LOGO
Digital Imagining Manager Matt McFarland
Production Manager Beverly Brooks
Transform Colorist Robert Jun
Special Thanks to Keith Sajack
C.A. Productions LLC is the author of this motion picture for the purposes
of copyright and other laws.
This motion picture is protected under the laws of the United States and
other countries. Any unauthorized reproduction, distribution or exhibition
of this motion picture or any part thereof including the sound track may
result in severe civil and criminal penalties.
KODAK LOGO LASERPACIFIC LOGO DOLBY LOGO
"Cinerama" and the Cinerama logo are registered trademarks of Cinerama, Inc.
Used with permission.
This film is dedicated to all the original Cinerama crews, technicians and
exhibitors who for fourteen years lifted us out of our seats and put us into
the picture.
THE END
MADE IN HOLLYWOOD, U.S.A.
COPYRIGHT 2003 C.A. PRODUCTIONS LLC
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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