Mime-Version: |
1.0 |
Sender: |
|
Subject: |
|
From: |
|
Date: |
Fri, 7 Apr 2000 18:39:19 PDT |
Content-Type: |
text/plain; format=flowed |
Reply-To: |
|
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
I thought I remembered something about a Cinerama theater in Montreal, so I
asked a very reliable source (my mother the movie buff). She told me that
the Imperial on Bleury street used to be a Cinerama. It has been so from at
least 1953, when she saw a screening of "This is Cinerama" [she told me the
bob sleigh sequence made quite an impression on her], until 1962, when she
saw "How the West Was Won". She told me as well that she saw the next year
in the same theater "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" which was shot in
Ultra Panavision. So I presume Cinerama converted most of its theaters from
the original Panarama system to Ultra Panavision.
I'm sure Pierre Veronneau (at http://cri.histart.umontreal.ca/grafics/)
would have more info on this in his book "Montréal, ville de cinéma"
(Cinémathèque québécoise).
On a similar note, does anyone know of a widescreen process that would have
been around in the mid 70s (possibly developed by Disney) which might have
played with the room temperature for effect (as I remember it as an 8 year
old boy in 1976 at Terre des Hommes in Montreal) and created the sensation
of being completely immersed in the film world. I remember a roller coaster
sequence which was totally convincing (I was clinging to person next to me,
fearing I would fall into the screen - ... mmm ... I guess that was my
"Arrivee d'un train a la Ciotat").
Well, there goes 2 minutes of nostalgia,
- Rene
______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
----
To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L
in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]
|
|
|