i know my opinion will be unpopular on this forum, but ... Content. I first saw it at the age of 10, and again last night at the wonderful Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. When i was 10, I didn't realize we lost WWII, and the North lost the Civil War ... at least as shown in this movie. Scenes from around the world showed only white people. The Vienna Boys Choir looked like Hitler Youth from Triumph Of The Will, as did the young men in the Florida Cypress Gardens (the young women looking like Scarlett Ohara from Gone With The Wind). The La Scala Opera sequence had white people in black-face. I'm very patriotic, but this was embarrassing. Technique. In 1912, D.W. Griffith discovered how to put the audience in the story, rather than at a distance like a stage play. But in many segments of This Is Cinerama, we are moved back at a distance, watching a church choir or an opera or a Spanish dance, etc., from a distance. A few veterans of the production related, after the showing, how they had a 40-minute movie on their hands and had to pad it out to 90 minutes. It showed; scenes went on past all human endurance. So, in my humble opinion, this movie set the art of cinema back 40 years.
Review of This Is Cinerama
