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Smilebox cinerama1/30/2024 ![]() He is our captain on this trip and if I’m not mistaken he traveled side by side with Lawrence of Arabia back in the day. Lowell Thomas was an adventurer who traveled the world and documented his stays. Phony staging is the least of my worries. I think it enhances the film, because the true star is the filming process and the locales. Certain scenes may or may not have been staged just to be captured by the Cinerama format but it doesn’t really slow or mess anything up. Flying in the “Smasher” is just the cherry on top because once we do land there are many more sights to behold. We visit Egypt, India, Brazil, Africa, Athens, and many more locales. This happens to be a film about wondrous places. As I mentioned before Cinerama’s Seven Wonders of the World is a travelogue, which is basically narrated film about people, places, and things. It’s like you’re holding your breath for a few seconds and don’t know whether to exhale or cough it out. Adventurer Lowell Thomas starts the film off with a detailed narration of what our journey in Cinerama will be like and it’s teasingly presented in standard 1.33:1 before the image fills up the screen from the sides in all of its Smilebox (2.59:1) format. It’s until you see the people and their vehicles that you realize you’ve been transported back in time. Yes, this travelogue of a film was made in the mid-1950’s but you wouldn’t know it due to how incredible the cinematography is. On this adventure we board a remodeled converted B-25 bomber nicknamed “Smasher” for our round-the-world romp to visit the Seven Wonders of the World, or, the Seven Wonders of the World in 1956. The global adventure captures the beauty and culture of these extraordinary places in a Cinerama time capsule.Ĭall me a newbie or unenlightened but this is my first introduction the Cinerama format and it’s quite a sight. Unseen theatrically since the early 1970s and never before broadcast or issued on home video, Seven Wonders of the World has been digitally remastered from its original camera negatives. are proud to present Seven Wonders of the World in the Smilebox® Curved Screen Simulation. “What are your seven wonders?” Flicker Alley and Cinerama, Inc. The film encourages the audience to choose from the dozens of sites explored. ![]() From there, the “Smasher” circles the globe with Cinerama photographing a live East Africa volcano, under the bridges in New York, over and around Rio de Janeiro, the Parthenon in Athens, Angel Falls in South America, and many stops along the way to experience the beautiful culture of diverse locales. The quest opens at the great pyramids, the last of the original Seven Wonders to still exist. Join him as he flies across the globe in the “Smasher,” a converted B-25, capturing some of the most breathtaking photography ever shot. Released in 1956, this Cinerama spectacle follows 20th century adventurer Lowell Thomas as he seeks out the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. Seven Wonders of the World is a round-the-world adventure that picks up where the Greeks of antiquity left off. ![]() Of the seven sites the ancient Greeks named the “wonders of the world,” only one remains.
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