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Cinerama

Cinerama proper 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.

Proper noun

Cinerama

  1. 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.
  2. A later system in which a single film was projected onto the curved screen, achieved by means of camera and/or projector lens adaptations.

Origin of Cinerama

Blend of cinema + panorama, a trademark of Cinerama, Inc.

Questions about Cinerama

What does Cinerama mean?
Cinerama means 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.
What part of speech is Cinerama?
Cinerama is a proper noun.

Words near Cinerama in the dictionary

  1. cineradiograph
  2. cineradiographic
  3. cineradiographical
  4. cineradiographs
  5. cineradiography
  6. Cinerama
  7. cineramic
  8. cineraria
  9. cinerarias
  10. cinerarium
  11. cinerariums

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