Cinerama Holiday
- February 8, 1955 (1955-02-08)
Cinerama Holiday is a 1955 film shot in Cinerama. Structured as a criss-cross travel documentary, it shows an American couple (John and Betty Marsh) traveling in Europe and a Swiss couple (Fred Troller and Beatrice Troller)[3] traveling in the United States. Like all of the original Cinerama productions, the emphasis is on spectacle and scenery. The European sequences include a point-of-view bobsled ride, while the U.S. sequences include a point-of-view landing on an aircraft carrier.
Places
Places visited include Davos, Paris, New Orleans & an early Las Vegas.
Reception
The film earned $10 million in domestic rentals[4] (equivalent to $113,739,130 in 2023) and became the highest-grossing film of 1955 in the United States, surpassing other motion pictures such as Mister Roberts, Battle Cry and Oklahoma!.
Largely unseen for decades, the film was released on Blu-ray in 2013, restored and remastered from the original camera negatives.[5]
References
- ^ "Scoring, Editing 'Cinerama Holiday'". Variety. 23 June 1954. p. 7.
- ^ Klady, Leonard (March 27, 1995). "Realistic Grosses". Variety. p. 10.
- ^ "Cinerama Holiday (1955) - IMDb". IMDb. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
Cinerama Holiday (1955) - IMDb
- ^ Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
- ^ Cinerama: Holiday Blu-ray
Further reading
- Lustig, David (November 2003). "When Cinerama rode the CZ" (PDF). Classic Trains Special Edition. No. 1, Dream Trains. pp. 50–53. ISSN 1541-809X.
External links
- Cinerama Holiday at IMDb
- Cinerama Holiday at TCMDB
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