slaytonf
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You can find out if a movie is going to show in the next three months or so by looking up it's page on the TCM database. First, you type the movie's title in the search box located in the upper right hand corner of the TCM homepage. Make sure the TCMDb button is selected. You will see a Search Results page come up. Find the movie you are interested in, and click on it's title. The movie's page will then appear. Under the title, any air dates scheduled will be listed. After each date will be a reminder button, which will allow you to arrange to have a reminder e-mailed to you.
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It's actually a fine film with a magnificent performance by Dolores Del Rio. I saw it once long ago, and have been eagerly awaiting TCM to re-air it, for which I am grateful.
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Think I need to get a new hat!
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There are'nt many Cinerama films anyway, so what's the big deal?
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Looks like it's more of an excuse to post links than to find out about a movie. My they're getting cleverer every day. . . .
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Joan Bennett. Hedy Lamarr. Jane Wyman.
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Diary of a Mad Housewife.
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Yikes! I almost read that, and it hasn't aired here yet.
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If it's any help, just as a movie begins, there is a screen with information on ratings and letterboxing. Now, whether that information is correct is another matter.
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> after Mr. Dobbs:
> Cinerama only works for people setting in the center front of the theater, so that what we see is a screen of equal height all the way from left to right, and the viewers are not supposed to be aware of the screen curvature. The distortion caused by the Cinerama cameras is pretty much removed when viewed from a position in the front center of a Cinerama theater that has the original curved screen. This is as I was thinking. So the longer distance from the viewer to the center of the screen as opposed to the sides reduces the wide-angle effect of the picture itself.
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Thanks for the link, filmlover. Below are two more pics from the site for comparison. Here you can see clearly the distortion of the picture to create the smilebox effect. Look at the difference in the upraised hand of, is that Walter Brennan?, in front of the flag.
If I remember correctly, in How the West. . . ., there were shots of a stage coach crossing the screen and also of a buffalo stampede. I've only seen them on a flat screen, and they appear excessively distorted, as if they were traveling a curved path, and not a straight line. Evidently, Cinerama was shot with a very wide angle lens and the curved screen corrected considerably for the distortion.
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Wow, watching the flythroughs of Yosemite and the Grand Canyon is almost as good as flying a plane in Google Earth.
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There still is a Ft. Bragg. One of it's most notable features is a historic steam rail line, popularly called the Skunk, that runs between it and Willits, California. Here's a Wikilink to info on Ft. Bragg:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bragg,_California
I would guess town scenes were shot there.
As for the Seventeen mile drive, its a tourist trap experience just a little west of Monterey that takes you through some very high end coastal neighborhoods and parts of the Pebble Beach golf course. Some nice foresty bits and impressive rocky coastal passages, especially if there is some wild weather and big waves.
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Yes, SonOfU, I do still see a little wide angle distortion in the smileboxing. But if it's as you say, then I can do without it.
It would not be too hard to do to get two more TVs, sfpcc1, with prices as they are today.
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I've never seen a Cinerama picture in a Cinerama theater, but I've seen widescreen movies at the Dome, including 2001. I saw it as an eight-year-old, and though I didn't understand what was going on, it was the most devastating visual event of my life, and must have inspired my preoccupation with films. I also saw Blue Water, White Death there. It's quite a thing to see a thirty foot tall set of jaws chomping on aluminum bars.
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I hope someone can answer in terms simple enough for me to understand. I'm not sure I can even properly explain my question.
Anyone seeing a regular letterbox version of a Cinerama film would be aware that it gives the impression of being shot with an extremely wide angle lens. For a Cinerama picture to be displayed on a flat screen, both ends must be enlarged vertically to correct the distortion in the image, giving us what I now read as a smilebox image.
Fine.
Now, when a Cinerama picture is shown in a Cinerama theater, that means the projected image is distorted? Yes? And the curvature of the screen corrects for that distortion so the viewers see a "normal" image?
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The seams between the three panels are certainly disconcerting. I wonder if that is simply an artifact of converting the Cineraria format to conventional format. I end up watching them more than paying attention to what's going on in the film. Not that This Is Cinerama is the most gripping of productions.
Edited by: slaytonf on Oct 18, 2012 10:25 PM
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If your're willing to pay for it, you should be albe to find it on the internet for under $20.
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Hey! I did that line a couple weeks ago!
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I may be displaying my ignorance, but I don't know if a deaf person (deaf since birth) would scream the same way hearing people do. Deaf people can learn to vocalize, as I am sure most are aware, but without being able to listen to others speak, and without the feedback from their own ears, the tone has a flat, almost moaning quality. Of course, newborn infants can howl quite nicely, so perhaps there is some inborn ability to sound the alarm.
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I always assumed, why I don't know, that the movie was shot at or near where it was supposed to take place, so I never paid too much attention to the scenery. Even so, I don't recall any cypress trees, so they must have taken great care in selecting their shots. To me, the water naturally felt like it was off to the West, but that must be a result of my west coast orientation.
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The Web page for it on the TCM database does not show any dates, so don't look for it for the next few months:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/84047/The-Mountain/
The way to check a movie's air date is to type the title in the search box at the top right of the TCM homepage. On the search results page, click the movie you want, and it will take you to the movie's Web page. Under the title, air dates will be listed, also an option to have a reminder e-mailed to you. Every month or so, check to see if it will be shown.
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>As AddisonDeWitless:
>Whoever did the location scouting for this film did a terrific job. where'd they film it? Northern California?
IMDB has it variously at Fort Bragg, Mendocino, Pebble Beach, the Monterrey Peninsula, and the Seventeen Mile Drive.
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Here is the page for The Deer Hunter:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/420324/Deer-Hunter-The/
Sometimes you have to enter the title for a film the begins with The. . . , with the The at the end, like this:
Deer Hunter, The
You will find that the database for TCM is as extensive as any other (such as IMDB).
One more thing. As far as I can tell from other discusssions, TCM doesn't have a film "library." At one time, it did, as a result of Ted Turner buying Time/Warner. But the films and/or rights to them were sold off at one point. Now, TCM rents all the films it shows.