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, for example, 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 |
| Music by | Morton Gould with additional music by Jack Shaindlin and Nathan Van Cleave |
| Cinematography | Joseph C. Brun Harry Squire |
| Edited by | Jack McCay Fredrick Y. Smith Les Zackling |
| Distributed by | Cinerama Releasing Corp. |
Release date | February 8, 1955 |
Running time | 119 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $29.6 million [1] |
The film was a huge success at the box office, earning $10 million in domestic rentals[2] (equivalent to $95,440,994 in 2019) and becoming the highest grossing film of 1955 in the United States, beating out other hugely successful movies 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.[3]
References
- 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)