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

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