Talk:Smell-O-Vision

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Uh... not to rain on anyone's parade, but this is a well-known hoax. See April Fool's Day. - Ta bu shi da yu 22:44, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

While the BBC did perpetuate a hoax in 1965, the film technique had been established for some time. The 1959 film, Behind the Great Wall, used a process called Aroma-Rama to send scents through the air-conditioning system of a theatre. Smell-o-vision was created in 1960 by Mike Todd, Jr., son of Mike Todd. His 1960 film Scent of Mystery (1960) delivered scents to the audience throughout the film. Due to problems propagating scents in sync with the film and flushing the scents out between each showing, the process was never successfully implemented. But, that didn't stop American film director John Waters from releasing an enhanced "Odorama" version of his film, Polyester in 1982. In homage to Smell-o-vision, Waters included scratch-and-sniff cards that the audience used while watching the movie. [1][2][3][4]--Viriditas | Talk 09:24, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 BBC 2 FOX Broadcasting in the 90s 3 My Name Is Earl & TV Guide cards 4 Smellitzer machine...

[edit] BBC

The BBC did something with this somewhen during the nineties, possibly for Children in Need or Comic Relief. It was only a one off. You bought a card with a few smells on it; it was crap. You rubbed off a square on the card when told to during the TV programme, and if you put your nose right up to the card you could just about smell something ;)

[edit] FOX Broadcasting in the 90s

I feel like there was some sort of promotion for FOX TV maybe 10 or 12 years ago where they gave away smell-o-vision cards for use with a night of broadcasting of shows like Martin. Anyone remember this or has textual evidence of it happening? I think they gave the cards away at Pizza Hut or Taco Bell--Valley2city^₪‽ 07:25, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My Name Is Earl & TV Guide cards

A recent instance:

   http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/04/19/laugh-n-sniff-with-my-name-is-earl/
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_a_Real_Job

[edit] Smellitzer machine...

You know, there is actually another technology out there designed to do the same sort of thing as Smell-O-Vision, except it's not used in movies, it's used in rides and attractions at Disneyland, Disneyworld, and Epcot Center. I distinctly remember riding the Universe of Energy (I think that was the name) ride at Epcot, and when journeying through the section showing a physical recreation of a Dinosaur-era jungle, you could literally smell the rotting vegetation and stuff.

Some related links:

http://www.solarius.com/dvp/misc/smellitzer.htm

http://mainstreetgazette.blogspot.com/2008/02/candies.html

http://forums.wdwmagic.com/archive/index.php?t-23851.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=smellitzer

--Nomad Of Norad (talk) 19:16, 5 May 2008 (UTC)