Cinerama Adventure

Just want to add that I have seen "The Cinerama Adventure" several times and enjoyed it very much. A feature lenght documentary about wide screen is very rare, and the Cinerama process certainly deserves this tribute. The amount of information collected for this production is amazing and much of it shows up in the form of interviews with the people behind the process as they experienced it.

My only regret is that "Windjammer" goes unmentioned. Perhaps the best of all the 3-strip films, "Windjammer", being a Cinemiracle film and technically not Cinerama, IS a first person experience LIKE Cinerama AND owned by Cinerama Inc. One of the producers, Mr. Borden Mace ("Cinerama Holiday"), recently told me why "Windjammer" was sold to Cinerama Inc. "Simply to get the film distributed as widely as possible".

Having had the priviledge to work with Mr. David Strohmaier on this production I am probably biased a bit, but "The Cinerama Adventure" is a unique and VERY thrilling ride through memory lane about a world long gone. I was born in 1963 when Cinerama was nearly gone, and have never experienced the original buzz of the process. Having read about the format for 20 years and seen the process projected in Bradford and Dayton, I can only say that "The Cinerama Adventure" gives the viewer a fantastic insight to Waller's Wonder and a taste of showmanship "three times the normal size".

If you have the slightest interest in wide screen history - go see "The Cinerama Adventure". Despite the shortcomming mentioned above, I highly recommend the film.