Noun
A wide-screen movie filming and projection system, briefly in vogue during the 1950s, involving three synchronised standard-format films projected onto a wide, curved screen, providing a "wraparound" experience for cinemagoers.
A later system in which a single film was projected onto the curved screen, achieved by means of camera and/or projector lens adaptations.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgAmazon founder Jeff Bezos is a sci-fi nerd, so Cinerama could be used to scratch that itch. Source: Internet
After the head of Amazon Studios, Roy Price, resigned in October amid a sexual harassment allegation, Amazon Senior Vice President Jeff Blackburn addressed several hundred Studios staff members at an all-hands meeting in Hollywood’s Cinerama Dome. Source: Internet
His leading roles in that film's wake included the epic western How the West Was Won in 1962 (his character spanned two sections of the episodic Cinerama extravaganza) and war stories The Victors in 1963 and The Blue Max in 1966. Source: Internet
Later Cinerama movies were shot in 70 mm anamorphic (see below), and the resultant widescreen image was divided into three by optical printers to produce the final threefold prints. Source: Internet
"Mixing Dolby Stereo Film Sound" Larry Blake Recording Engineer/Producer Vol12 No.1 Feb 1981 However, if a 70mm film was shown in a Cinerama theatre, the Cinerama sound system was used. Source: Internet
The unexpected success of the Cinerama widescreen process in 1952 led to a boom in film format innovations to compete with the growing audiences of television and the dwindling audiences in movie theaters. Source: Internet