Talk:Cinerama

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Contents 1 "Sharing a single shutter?" 2 Can this be added ? 3 UK performances 4 globalize tag

[edit] "Sharing a single shutter?"

The article says

The original system involved shooting with three synchronized cameras sharing a single shutter...

Is this correct? How could three cameras "share a single shutter?" Weren't they just "synchronized," three shutters, pulldowns and all? Dpbsmith (talk) 00:16, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

I've seen a Cinerama camera. Three film magazines, three lenses, one big shutter. Mackerm 06:58, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Can this be added ?

The Waller Flexible Gunnery Trainer. By Fred Waller. In: Journal of the SMPTE, Volume 47, July, 1946; pages 73 through 87. 80.219.85.243 12:04, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

• Absolutely. Why not be bold and go ahead and do it yourself? Just give it a try. If you don't get the formatting right or something like that, other editors will be glad to tidy it up later. Dpbsmith (talk) 16:57, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I did it. Greetings from Switzerland ! Filmtechniker and 80.219.86.190 13:50, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] UK performances

In the UK some shows were presented in oversize circus-style circular marquees. I remember one such event in Torquay ( a beach resort in Devon) during the 1960's. There were two films on the programme: first a travelogue (something like "natural wonders of the world") comprising helicopter shots of places such as the Grand Canyon. The other was probably "How the West Was Won" though my memory is not totally clear. Both surround-sound (with speakers behind the audience) and the three-projector system were in use. The curved screen took up nearly half of the "big top" with the audience in the other half.81.86.230.16 (talk) 18:29, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] globalize tag

Perhaps you could leave some comments as to what specifically you think that this article is lacking as far as global perspective goes? Yes, I acknowledge that there were Cinerama venues outside of the US, but to the best of my research, the technology was proprietary to a single US company which was also responsible for all of the productions - of which there were very few - made on the system. While some of these were travelogues which were filmed internationally (with American crews), the system was controlled from the US and concentrated their business pursuits primarily towards persuading Hollywood to adopt their system. Its major competitors were other American formats, some of which were developed in-house by the studios, and others of which were retooled from prior technologies. What else would you have the article mention from an international standpoint, other than that a handful of titles produced by Americans also screened abroad? Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 06:54, 2 May 2008 (UTC)