Oh, and Paul(yeah, YOU down under there
), regarding this part of your previous post...
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I remember as a kid see "How the West was Won" on some special screen or Sensurround or whatever .It had me nearly off my seat when cannon went off signalling the start of the Civil war.That,whatever it was,was a worthwhile concept IMO.
...what you're probably remembering here was the short-lived wide-screen movie process called "Cinerama"(not to be confused with the "CinemaScope" process, btw) and which entailed having three separate movie cameras filming the same scenes within a movie(later a single camera was used), and then having three separate film projectors projecting the images during the viewing process. The problem with this complicated system was that all three cameras and all three projectors had to be perfectly synchronized in order for it to function correctly. And yes, back then one of the main selling points to the public for seeing "How the West Was Won" was the novelty of watching that star-studded film in that format.
(...and once again in MY case, it was watching this particular movie upon its initial release at the newly built Cinerama Dome theater situated along Sunset Blvd in Hollywood)
