Cinerama Holiday
Cinerama Holiday is a 1955 film shot in Cinerama. Structured as a criss-cross travel documentary, it shows an American couple traveling in Europe and a European couple 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 | |
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Directed by | Robert L. Bendick Philippe De Lacy |
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[1] |
Box office | $29.6 million [2] |
Places
Places visited include Davos, Paris, New Orleans & an early Las Vegas.
Reception
The film earned $10 million in domestic rentals[3] (equivalent to $109,242,236 in 2022) 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.[4]
References
- "Scoring, Editing 'Cinerama Holiday'". Variety. 23 June 1954. p. 7.
- Klady, Leonard (March 27, 1995). "Realistic Grosses". Variety. p. 10.
- 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.