239 This Is Cinerama (1952)
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This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
239 This Is Cinerama (1952)
- Original director 'Robert Flaherty' (qv) became ill and died shortly
after filming General MacArthur in Chicago on April 26, 1951, a wet and
windy day. The sequence was not included.
- The roller coaster ride was filmed several times using ``short ends''
and the complete circuit contains two skilfully edited takes. It was
directed by 'Michael Todd Jr.' (qv). At the time, Todd was a 21 year old
college student on vacation from Amherst. Apart from salaries, the
sequence cost thirty-three dollars (rental of a station wagon
and the cost of bolts to fix the cameras to the roller coaster).
Todd Jr. also directed most of the European footage.
- Musical Director 'Louis Forbes' (qv) was basically a conductor.
'Max Steiner' (qv) composed much of the original music used, but did so
secretly, as he was under contract to Warner Brothers at the time.
- When released in Franco's Spain in 1958, several censorship cuts were made.
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