In the Cyber Museum we feature extensive coverage of Cinerama, CinemaScope, Technirama, Panavision, Vistavision, Superscope, Todd-AO, Technicolor, Cinecolor, Kinemacolor and other motion picture photographic processes. In addition, the web site also features a great deal of historic material on the development of early motion picture sound systems of the variable area and variable density optical soundtracks, plus Vitaphone sound on disc motion picture audio systems.
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Our virtual doors are always wide open (wider than our widescreen exhibits, if you can believe it) and your generous donations ensure that our pixels stay as sharp as our wit.
So, if you've enjoyed your panoramic stroll through film history, consider dropping a dime (or several) into our digital donation box to keep the lights on and the film rolling!
Western Electric, RCA, DeForest, Variable Density, Variable Area, Fantasound, Vitaphone, just lots and lots of old stuff. |
A potpourri of high resolution images reproduced directly from motion picture prints and negatives | Posters make for crummy bar bets. This little gallery shows how uninformative they can be. | Promises, Promises, Promises. The electronics industry is trying to convince us that we are facing new wonders in television. Find out the truth in this hard hitting exposé |
If you don't own one now, you will own a widescreen TV some time in the near future. You need to be aware of some facts now in order to avoid some disappointments in the future. | Film restorer Robert A. Harris discusses restoration and preservation as they are and they ought to be. Still relevant a dozen years after presented to a symposium. |
We're not sure why, but we've received numerous requests to make this review available again. So here it is.
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Curator's Note: Every attempt has been made to ensure the information here is correct. Since a lot of blustery rhetoric was issued in the promotion of many of these processes, it is entirely possible that factual errors do exist. We are not hypersensitive to corrections so feel free to e-mail the author with any information that you have.
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Opinions that The Sound of Music and The Greatest Story Ever Told are boring are those of the Curator and his opinions are final. Don't bother complaining. Frankly we'd send up a big cheer if someone would chop the negatives into millions of guitar picks.