What was the difference between Cinerama and CinemaScope?
This is Cinerama poster Both Cinerama and CinemaScope attempted to “pull the audience” into the action of the film by projecting the movie on a huge screen. The deeply curved Cinerama screen at New York’s Broadway Theatre was 78 feet wide by 26 feet tall — more than 2000 square feet. The average Cinemascope screen installed in the local “movie palace” was about 42×16 feet (nearly 700 square feet), considerably larger than the 20×15 foot (300 square foot) sheet it replaced Cinerama, introduced in 1952 with This Is Cinerama, used a special three-lens camera which recorded three images on three strips of film and required three sets of projectors to exhibit its very wide (2.59 x 1) image on a deeply curved screen. Cinerama camera was 146° which produced an image almost six times larger than the 16° view of the standard 35mm movie camera. –> Only eight films were produced using the three film strip process during Cinerama’s ten year life. These films were shown in 100 theatres, world wid
