This is Cinerama

Article Abstract:

Cinerama was introduced in 1952, providing films in wide angle screen format, and shown accompanied by seven-chanel stereo sound. It was replaced with newer techniques by the mid-60s but is enjoying a resurgence of interest in 2001, with LA's Cinerama Dome under restoration.

Author: Handy, Bruce
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Vanity Fair
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0733-8899
Year: 2001
Methods, History, Motion picture industry, Movie industry, Wide-screen processes (Cinematography)

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Tomorrowland never dies

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Issues concerning the growing nostalgia in the US for the futuristic kitsch of the mid-20th century are discussed, with focus on the space fantasy in designs of the 1960's and 1970's as well as the 1939 New York World's Fair.

Author: Handy, Bruce
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Vanity Fair
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0733-8899
Year: 2000
Analysis, Twentieth century, Popular culture, Future in popular culture

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Type O behavior

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Motion picture director Francis Ford Coppola has brought a new vision to the 1897 Bram Stoker novel. Gary Oldman plays the lead role in the film's celebration of vampirism and 'decadent' seduction.

Author: Handy, Bruce
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Vanity Fair
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0733-8899
Year: 1992
Works, Coppola, Francis Ford, Dracula (Motion picture), Stoker, Bram

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