![]() It’s not about tricking you-it’s about correcting for an inherent geometric mismatch. Smilevision is designed to minimize the geometric distortion inherent in flat screen presentation of the material by mimicking the distortion needed for the image to appear as originally intended. The gross distortion as objects pass through the join lines is. For example, when a straight line crosses from one strip to another, it visually bends as it goes. I have the other 5 movies that footage was gleened from.The presentation was really worth watching with all of the best footage combined in Smilebox Cinerama. The Smilebox transfer distorts the image to 'bend' perspectives into an approximation of the original Cinerama experience. ![]() Presenting the three strips side-by-side on a flat screen with no compensation for the original lens geometry therefore imtroduces unwanted geometric distortion. This Is Cinerama is a documentary that is also a document of postwar American pride, of film technology, and of the movie business. It gives you a sense of how the film actually looked. Cinerama is the trademarked name for the widescreen process which works by simultaneously projecting images from three synchronized 35 mm projectors onto a huge, deeply. In short, it shoots a deliberately distorted image designed to be presented on a deliberately distorted screen. In Flicker Alley’s releases of This is Cinerama (1952) and Windjammer, the films are presented in a Smilebox format approximating the viewing experience of the films during their original road shows, on the requisite, massive curved screens. SmileBox portions from HTWWW are offered in disc 3, as part of the documentary about the Cinerama process. Cinerama Inc, which produced and released films in the three-strip Cinerama process, is a part of Decurion Corporation, which also owns ArcLight Cinemas and Pacific Theatres. The lens setup used to capture the original images is not linear-it was designed to compensate for the geometric distortion that’s inherent with presentation on a screen with a specific curvature. Click to expand.I have to say upfront that I’m answering this without having actually seen it myself, but when I first heard about it in this thread, I wondered what it was about and started looking into it. To demonstrate the effect the SmileBox simulated curved screen was employed to recreate what the audiences saw.
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