Film · Cinerama · 1952
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This Is Cinerama
15Leave it.
No plot and no family, just a wide screen the crowd paid to stare at.
Take controlThis scores 15. This Is Cinerama cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
The review
Do not come for people. There aren't any, not in the way a story means. This is a demonstration of a very wide screen: a roller coaster, travel views, a choir, and the point of view of a person being shown a new machine. No plot. No family. The crowd came to look at the screen itself. It ran for years and, on some lists, outgrossed ordinary releases. A list can be impressed by a machine.
I would not put it on for a child who wants a face to follow. I might put it on to ask why a new gadget feels like an event. The coaster ends and nobody is missed at home. It walks you from one view to the next. When it stops, no promise was kept or broken, because nobody up there had a life to promise with.
Journal
Keep This Is Cinerama in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 15. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
24 instead of 15
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt is still a documentary film, and it scores 24 instead of 15. What you gain is industry: A career, of a kind.
The eight
- 2Industry
The work on screen is demonstrating a machine, not a living.
- 0Household
There is no family here, and no one at home is waiting on anyone.
- 0Piety
No person in it has a conscience that is asked to stop them.
- 1Courage
The roller coaster is a thrill, not a loss anyone would have to live with.
- 1Republic
Strangers share a screen and leave owing one another nothing.
- 1Temperance
Each new view is the product, and nothing in it tells you to stop.
- 5Truth
It promises a new screen and keeps that promise, because that is all it is.
- 2Stewardship
What remains is a machine people stared at, not a life they shared.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · This Is Cinerama · 15IMDb
