DVR Alert: This is Cinerama - TCM, 2/20, 11:15 am central

[Craig59]

It's an all too small part of the film but, if you've never seen the footage shot by Paul Mantz with the cinerama camera mounted in the nose of his B-25, N1023, "The Smasher," you owe it to yourself to give it a watch.

Turner Classic Movies, Wednesday, February 20th at 11:15am central.

[Pat Carry]

thanks for the heads up!

[bdk]

Didn't they used to show this at Disneyland?

[Chief]

We saw the footage of the filming in the United States in Disney World in 1973.

Also, this video to be shown tomorrow was aired on TV last year.
It details the entire worldwide filming that was done. It's very
interesting because they go into detail about their travels all
over the world, maintenance and personnel issues, etc.

[bdk]

Just watched this on my DVR. Why didn't they just use a wide angle lens? I guess that 70mm film hadn't been invented yet. If anyone cared to, I'll bet the three images could be stitched together pretty well.

Let's see if you could get permission to fly under those bridges now, let alone so low around Manhattan and some of those other cities.

[The Inspector]

Just watched this on my DVR. Why didn't they just use a wide angle lens? I guess that 70mm film hadn't been invented yet. If anyone cared to, I'll bet the three images could be stitched together pretty well.

Let's see if you could get permission to fly under those bridges now, let alone so low around Manhattan and some of those other cities.

I thought they restored 'How the West Was Onest' and cleaned up the overlapped edges, mismatched tints, and the sound track, etc. Watched GRAND PRIX (pretty good racing footage interupted by a lame, cloying script) the other day and they've tidied it's print up a bunch looked pretty good on the 55 incher, and hopefully they decide NOT to restore 'Battle of the Bulge'

[bdk]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prix_(1966_film)

Looks like Grand Prix was filmed in 70mm, but initially shown in Cinerama.

[Craig59]

Just watched this on my DVR. Why didn't they just use a wide angle lens? I guess that 70mm film hadn't been invented yet. If anyone cared to, I'll bet the three images could be stitched together pretty well.

The answer to "why" can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinerama

Let's see if you could get permission to fly under those bridges now, let alone so low around Manhattan and some of those other cities.

According to the Mantz biography, Hollywood Pilot, Mantz didn't bother asking for permission as he knew what the answer would be - he just did it! Different time, different FAA.

[JohnB]

I love Grand Prix, even with its story issues...that aren't THAT bad.
It's a great accidental documentary on how F1 used to be....

[The Inspector]

I love Grand Prix, even with its story issues...that aren't THAT bad.
It's a great accidental documentary on how F1 used to be....

Maybe it was Eva Marie Saint who ruined her part in 'On the Waterfront' continuing with her thin shrieky, brittle 17 year old type casting.
It did say in the title frames 'in CINERAMA' it was better than 'The Racers' but not quite Le Mans, I wonder what the new, in production F-1 movie will look like