Cinerama

Cinerama is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35 mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen, subtending 146° of arc. The trademarked process was marketed by the Cinerama corporation. It was the first of a number of novel processes introduced during the 1950s, when the movie industry was reacting to competition from television. Cinerama was presented to the public as a theatrical event, with reserved seating and printed programs, and audience members often dressed in their best attire for the evening.

The Cinerama projection screen, rather than being a continuous surface like most screens, is made of hundreds of individual vertical strips of standard perforated screen material, each about ⁷⁄₈ inch (~22 mm) wide, with each strip angled to face the audience, so as to prevent light scattered from one end of the deeply curved screen from reflecting across the screen and washing out the image on the opposite end. The display is accompanied by a high-quality, seven-track discrete, directional, surround-sound system.

Starry Eyed

Why have you locked the bathroom door?
It's not as if I haven't seen you piss a thousand times before
And why can't you look me in the face?
Is it because somebody else has already moved into my place?
But I shouldn't put any questions to you
That I don't really want the answers to
Why didn't you return my call?
Well tell me is there any point in my being here at all?
Why can't you just tell me what's wrong?
Have I been totally naïve in trusting you all along?
But I shouldn't put any questions to you

Cinerama

Cinerama

ALBUMS

Live In New York

Peel Sessions, Volume 3: Cinerama's Holiday

Live In Belfast

John Peel Sessions: Season 2

Cinerama Holiday

Live In Los Angeles

Torino

John Peel Sessions

This Is Cinerama

Disco Volante

Va Va Voom

Starry Eyed