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Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:48 pm
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I received an email from Paul Samuels. He has built the worlds
smallest Cinerama theatre - The Cinerama Barn/John Harvey Theater. The
screen curvature is 135 degrees and is 5.5 x 14 ft ribboned and has
nine seats. Its in Frederick, MD. The 3-strips have been converted to
video and he has three video projectors "which block off the unwanted
portion and project the desired portion to the appropriate segment of
the screen." The three panel films he has on video are:

This is Cinerama
Cinerama Holiday
Seven Wonders of the World
Windjammer
Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
How the West Was Won plus some 3-panel oddities including the Renault
Commercial and Kinopanorama tidbits.
He also has Khartoum and Grand Prix which he displays from a single
projector.

He showed How the West Was Won "before an invited audience in 3-
projector mode, which was the first time it was shown in this manner
on the east coast of the United States in over 40 years".

He was at the recent Bradford widescreen film festival where he
announced his new theatre.

Did any of you that attended the film festival see him?


Thanks,

Roland

Cinerama web site:
http://cineramahistory.com/
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Mutley
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:31 am
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Cinerama <roland.lataille@po.state.ct.us> wrote:

Quote:
I received an email from Paul Samuels. He has built the worlds
smallest Cinerama theatre - The Cinerama Barn/John Harvey Theater. The
screen curvature is 135 degrees and is 5.5 x 14 ft ribboned and has
nine seats. Its in Frederick, MD. The 3-strips have been converted to
video and he has three video projectors "which block off the unwanted
portion and project the desired portion to the appropriate segment of
the screen." The three panel films he has on video are:

This is Cinerama
Cinerama Holiday
Seven Wonders of the World
Windjammer
Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
How the West Was Won plus some 3-panel oddities including the Renault
Commercial and Kinopanorama tidbits.
He also has Khartoum and Grand Prix which he displays from a single
projector.

He showed How the West Was Won "before an invited audience in 3-
projector mode, which was the first time it was shown in this manner
on the east coast of the United States in over 40 years".

He was at the recent Bradford widescreen film festival where he
announced his new theatre.

Did any of you that attended the film festival see him?


Thanks,

Roland

Cinerama web site:
http://cineramahistory.com/



I've always wondered how long before some one used a system like

this.

I assume from the above that the Cinerama film is on one disk not 3
disks. One for each projector??
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Guest
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:13 am
On 18 Mar, 22:48, Cinerama <roland.latai...@po.state.ct.us> wrote:

Quote:
He was at the recent Bradford widescreen film festival where he
announced his new theatre.

Did any of you that attended the film festival see him?

He described the system at the 'Cineramacana' event on Sunday
morning. This is where various short clips of film are shown, and
speakers talk about widescreen related topics. He intended to show
some video of the setup, but there was some problem with the tape,
the pictures on it were of something quite different, railway
material, and it was not possible to sort this out due to the very
tight timing of the event. I heard rumors that the tape would be
shown the next day, but I don't know if this actually happened, as I
had to return to London on the Monday morning.

I once saw some pictures in a '60s magazine of a Cinerama style setup,
using three standard 8mm projectors.
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Guest
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:13 am
On 18 Mar, 22:48, Cinerama <roland.latai...@po.state.ct.us> wrote:

Quote:
He was at the recent Bradford widescreen film festival where he
announced his new theatre.

Did any of you that attended the film festival see him?

He described the system at the 'Cineramacana' event on Sunday
morning. This is where various short clips of film are shown, and
speakers talk about widescreen related topics. He intended to show
some video of the setup, but there was some problem with the tape,
the pictures on it were of something quite different, railway
material, and it was not possible to sort this out due to the very
tight timing of the event. I heard rumors that the tape would be
shown the next day, but I don't know if this actually happened, as I
had to return to London on the Monday morning.

I once saw some pictures in a '60s magazine of a Cinerama style setup,
using three standard 8mm projectors.
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Guest
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:28 pm
Paul Samuels finished his presentation on his Cinerama-style theater
Monday morning. A photo of his presentation and a diagram of how it
works can be seen in the seventh picture shown in the Monday photos on
Thomas' web site at:

http://www.in70mm.com/widescreen_weekend/2008/chapters/monday.htm

The setup basically takes a portion of the video image and sends the
left part of the letterboxed image to the "Abel" video projector and
the center part to the "Baker" video projector and the right part to
the "Charlie" projector. The use of three projectors allows him to
have the deeply curved screen and the immersive effect that is
characteristic of Cinerama.

-Dan Sherlock


On Mar 23, 2:13 pm, fur...@mail.croydon.ac.uk wrote:
Quote:
On 18 Mar, 22:48, Cinerama <roland.latai...@po.state.ct.us> wrote:

He was at the recent Bradford widescreen film festival where he
announced his new theatre.

Did any of you that attended the film festival see him?

He described the system at the 'Cineramacana' event on Sunday
morning.  This is where various short clips of film are shown, and
speakers talk about widescreen related topics.  He intended to show
some video of the setup, but there was some problem with the tape,
the pictures on it were of something quite different, railway
material, and it was not possible to sort this out due to the very
tight timing of the event.  I heard rumors that the tape would be
shown the next day, but I don't know if this actually happened, as I
had to return to London on the Monday morning.

I once saw some pictures in a '60s magazine of a Cinerama style setup,
using three standard 8mm projectors.
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