Windjammer (film)

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Windjammer
The Christian Radich, the ship featured in the film.
Directed by	Bill Colleran Louis De Rochemont III
Produced by	Louis de Rochemont
Written by	James L. Shute
Release date(s)	1958
Running time	127 min.
Country	U.S.
Language	English
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The 1958 film Windjammer recorded an actual voyage of the Norwegian sail Windjammer training ship Christian Radich. It was the first movie to be shot in Cinemiracle with 7-track stereophonic sound and gave the viewers a panoramic image of the 17,500 nautical mile voyage. The motion picture was produced by Louis de Rochemont.

The ship and its Norwegian crew were filmed while sailing from Oslo, across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, to New York City, Portsmouth in New Hampshire, and then back home to Oslo. The movie featured a score by Morton Gould, with additional musical performances by cellist Pablo Casals and Arthur Fiedler conducting the Boston Pops Orchestra.

The film also features a meeting with the German Pamir (ship), which sunk in a hurricane in September 1957.

The world-premiere was at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood on April 8, 1958 and the movie ran for 36 weeks. The film was also released at selected cinemas in America, Canada, and Europe that were specially equipped to project the movie on a wide screen. It was particularly popular in the Scandinavian nations.