Cinerama Holiday
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) 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.
| Cinerama Holiday | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Robert L. Bendick Philippe De Lacy |
| Starring | Fred Troller Beatrice Troller John Marsh Betty Marsh |
| Cinematography | Joseph C. Brun Harry Squire |
| Edited by | Jack McCay Fredrick Y. Smith Les Zackling |
| Music by | Morton Gould with additional music by Jack Shaindlin and Nathan Van Cleave |
| Distributed by | Cinerama Releasing Corporation |
Release date | February 8, 1955 |
Running time | 119 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.5 million |
| Box office | $29.6 million |
Places
Places visited include Davos, Paris, New Orleans & an early Las Vegas.
Reception
The film earned $10 million in domestic rentals (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.
References
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
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