Widescreen Cinema

by John Belton

Book Overview

"Ladies and gentlemen: THIS IS CINERAMA." With these words, on September 30, 1952, the heavy red curtains in New York's Broadway Theatre opened on a panoramic Technicolor image of the Rockaways Playland Atom-Smasher Roller Coaster--and moviegoers were abruptly plunged into a new and revolutionary experience. The cinematic transformation heralded by this giddy ride was, however, neither as sudden nor as straightforward as it seemed. Widescreen...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674335325
• ISBN13: 9780674335325
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 2.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"