This Is Cinerama

This Is Cinerama

Plunges you into a startling new world of entertainment

NR 1952 · 115 min · ★ 5.6 · Documentary

Designed to introduce the then-new widescreen process Cinerama, audiences experience the roller coaster at Rockaways' Playland, the temple dance from Aida, Niagara Falls, a Viennese choir, the canals of Venice, a military tattoo in Edinburgh, a bullfight, and more. The film concludes with a view from the nose of a low-flying B-25 while America the Beautiful plays.

Directed by Merian C. Cooper

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Lowell Thomas Host / Narrator

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