Third Dimension Movies And E X P A N D E D Screen (1953)

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THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOTION PICTURES Hi placed all across the screen, and to the sides of the screen and from a speaker in the back of the theater. The placement of these speakers produces the ""sound perspective" that makes voices and music come from the proper direction in accord with the action of the pic ture on the^ screen. We need not go into tie subject of Stereophonic sound as we intend to devote a chapter to this important subject later. Control of sound and picture are Hinder constant supervision of one man at the sound and picture console, this has gain controls and patching facilities. The pro jectors are started remotely from this position and the light intensity of the three screens is constantly ad justed. At the time of writing Cinerama has played to almost 500,000 people, the theater is sold out three months in advance. Newspaper critics treated Cinerama kindly most of them claiming that this was the greatest innovation in the industry since the advent of sound. However Aaron Nadell, of International Projectioinist, had the following to say in a recent issue: The effect, as viewed for the first time and with suitable program material, is startling. "So intense is the feeling of realism transmitted by Cinerama that not a few viewers are overcome physically—the genteel term is 'nausea' or 'sea-sick'—and are compelled to leave the auditorium hastily." This extreme result was not repeated at the Oc tober 1st matinee, but the audience was decidedly "over come" with excitement; whistling, whooping and ulti mately applauding at the opening sequence in which they seemed to be actually riding in a seaside roller coaster, looking out over the ocean, swaying and turning, climbing, and swooping in spine-tingling descent. The effect produced was not that of seeing a movie, but of being there in the darting, rocking car. The shoulders