Cinerama News

Only the three-strip Cinerama films "This Is Cinerama" and "How the West Was Won" will be shown during the opening weekend, Sept.

In the late '50s, I became the public relations/ production guy for a wide-screen film company called Cinerama .

Only the three-strip Cinerama films "This Is Cinerama" and "How the West Was Won" will be shown during the opening weekend, Sept.

The announcement that Paul G. Allen's Seattle Cinerama Theatre is starting a wide-screen festival today, including two of the seven movies that were made for the original three-projector Cinerama system -- "This is Cinerama" and "How The West Was Won" -- prompted me to make this admission.

Strange bedfellows in this week's New York Times column , thanks to the vagaries of the DVD release schedule.