Cinerama
- Date
- 1952 · confidence high
- Place
- New York, United States
- Credited to
- Merian C. Cooper
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Producer Merian C. Cooper drove Cinerama, a widescreen system combining three synchronized 35 mm projectors on a deeply curved 146-degree screen, presented to the public in New York in 1952 as a large-format spectacle countering the rise of television.
What it led to
- Later widescreen film formats (CinemaScope, IMAX)
- Multichannel surround sound systems in theaters
- Reinvention of cinema as an event experience