Originally Posted by bdzmusicprod /t/325182/70mm-film-transfer-to-bluray-using-smilebox-simulated-curved-screen#post_4002216 I am aware of the purist viewpoint of true Cinerama fans but I still think that it would be very cool to present some of these films for home viewing using the SmileBox simulated curved screen process to at least give people an opportunity to see what these films looked like in "faux" Cinerama. I also saw a 70mm Todd-Ao presentation of Hello Dolly on the same screen and it too looked good. I have seen a 70mm blowup of Fiddler On The Roof presented in Cinerama on the Cinerama looked pretty good. One film historian noted that a Cinerama theater could in fact present a 70mm film "in Cinerama" provided they pay a fee to Cinerama to present it as such. Another example of a 70mm "Cinerama" presentation was when a local Cinema that had been equipped to show 70mm Cinerama films had a brief showing of Around the World In Eighty Days and presented it in Cinerama although it was in truth filmed in Todd-Ao. My feeling is that why not recreate the effect intended when they were first released as "Cinerama" films to theaters showing 70mm Cinerama films. I thought that the effect was very good even though these films were not "true" Cinerama presentations. They used It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and 2001 A Space Odyssey as examples. In the Cinerama Adventure documentary SmileBox curved screen simulation was used to demonstrate what the 70mm "Cinerama" films looked like. To demonstrate the effect the SmileBox simulated curved screen was employed to recreate what the audiences saw. They used a 120 degree "bug-eye" lens for wide shots but only sparingly in the first Todd-Ao presentation. I watched a documentary about the filming of Oklahoma in Todd-Ao which was initially created as "Cinerama out of one hole".
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