Who developed the cinerama film?
The first CINERAMA FILM was This is Cinerama, which opened in New York on 30 September 1952 and ran for 122 weeks. The first full-length Cinerama feature was Metro Goldwyn Mayer’s 1962 production The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, directed by George Pal and Henry Levin. Cinerama was developed by self-taught inventor Frederick Waller of Huntingdon, New York, who had originated the idea as early as 1938 for an oil exhibit at the New York World’s Fair. His intention had been to project moving pictures all over the interior surface of the exhibition building, but technical difficulties persuaded him to compromise with a half-dome, using 11 16 mm projectors to cover the vast area of projectors to three and adopting a wide-screen ratio of almost 3:1. Waller’s process is by no means the ultimate in wide-screen projection. The similarly named Cineorama – introduced by Raoul Grimoin-Sanson at the Paris Exposition of 1900, employed a battery of 10 projectors to show an elaborately hand-coloured film on the widest screen possible-a completely circular screen 330 ft in circumference with the audience seated in the middle.
