Watch the trailer here
From Trailers From Hell. You an play with or without Brian Trenchard-Smith's commentary. I recommend both:
http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/769
Thank you. That is a great trailer. And I just watched it make its debut (after 60 years) on TCM today.
shareYou're very welcome, Movibuf1962! I'm glad to hear TCM is showing this. It's in the original dimension, I hope?
shareRobert Osborne made a wonderful, detailed disclaimer before the broadcast that it was being shown in "smilebox" format, the TV approximation of Cinerama which slightly curves the already widescreen. I recorded it anyway, and parts of it were glorious- especially the curtain widening on the roller coaster ride at the beginning, the Cypress gardens sequence, and the aerial shots of the country at the end.
shareThanks for the details. I knew they couldn't get true Cinerama unless you have a curved TV set (which as far as I know doesn't exist – unless your screen gets warped in a fire or something, in which case I doubt your TV would work). I'm glad at least they didn't crop it for fullscreen.
Does the "smilebox" format mean it curved slightly upward on the sides, like a smile?
Well it curves both up and down, like a concave lens. ('Smilebox,' to me, is literally not the correct word because the image should only curve up, like a smile, if that was the case- but that's splitting hairs.)
This is the link to the site and a still from "Search For Paradise." Hot stuff when it actually moves!!
http://www.cineramaadventure.com/smilebox.htm
http://www.cineramaadventure.com/ticcoaster-smile2.jpg
Thanks very much for those links! It's much easier to understand that way.
Those are extremely impressive images, and I'd imagine the actual Cinerama effect with moving pictures would be breathtaking, especially on a big screen.