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Waller is most known for his contributions to film special effects while working at Paramount Pictures, for his creation of the Waller Flexible Gunnery Trainer, [2] and for inventing Cinerama, [3] the immersive experience of a curved film screen that extends to the viewer's peripheral vision, for which he received an Academy Award.
Original Cinerama screen in the Bellevue Cinerama, Amsterdam (1965–2005) 17-meter curved screen removed in 1978 for 15-meter normal screen. [1]Cinerama is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen, subtending 146-degrees of arc.
The Waller Gunnery Trainer was a simulator for training World War II aerial gunners using multiple film projectors. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its inventor, Fred Waller , later invented the Cinerama film format. [ 3 ]
Hollywood’s Cinerama Dome theater, which has been shuttered since the beginning of the pandemic, will not be reopening in 2024, sources confirmed on background. It’s hoped that the Dome and ...
Cinerama Adventure is a 2002 documentary about the history of the Cinerama widescreen film process. It tells the story of the widescreen process' evolution, from a primitive multi-screen pyramid process to a Vitarama format that played a big part in World War II, to the three-screen panoramic process it eventually became. The film includes ...
Cinerama was a panoramic screen format invented by Fred Waller. It followed Waller's earlier eleven-camera, eleven-projector "Vitarama" process, first presented in 1939 at the New York World's Fair, which proved too unwieldy for widespread commercial deployment. Cinerama featured a three-camera, three-projector process that projected three film ...
Waller Flexible Gunnery Trainer: Fred Waller: 1943 US Air Force interactive training exercise 35 mm × 5 cameras 1.37 × 5 negatives 0.866" × 0.630" 4 perf, 2 sides spherical 35 mm × 5 projectors hemispherical view 0.825" × 0.602" spherical Cinerama [15] Fred Waller: 1952 This is Cinerama: 35 mm × 3 cameras 2.59 (3 × negatives) 0.996" × 1 ...
In the 1950s the theatre was redesigned for Cinerama movies. In the 1960s they showed such films as Ben-Hur, Doctor Zhivago, and Hello, Dolly!. By the 1970s, the Warner Theatre had fallen into disrepair and was briefly used to screen pornographic films before being revived as a live concert venue.