Cinemiracle

Cinemiracle is a process developed in the early 1950's wide screen process with the aspect ratio 3:1. During the recording and during the projection of three 35-mm film camera and three electrically coupled film projectors are necessary. Inventor of Cinemiracle system was Russell H. McCullough for the National Theatres Amusement Company.

In contrast to the comparable film format Cinerama the sub-images of the two outer cameras are not directly ( facing forward ) but taken over side mirrors ( left camera: right field, etc.) here. When projecting - a 120 ° curved screen - then proceed analogously with three film projectors.

When recording three Mitchell cameras were used for 35 - mm film, which were summarized in a festmonierten camera block. By the undistorted recording better movie quality comes about as CinemaScope. The cameras were horizontal take an angle of 146 degrees vertically and 55 degree in the situation. As a specially developed film footage of Dubray - Howell Eastman was used, which was exposed with 26 movie frames per second.

The most famous of the films produced by this technique is the documentary feature film " Windjammer " ( Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich ). Built in 1958 where a screen was temporarily for the German première on 22 May 1959 in the Grugahalle ( food) with 32 m wide and 17 m high installed at the time the largest screen in the world. In the Grugahalle the film in 1959 and then in 1962 and 1965 shown and seen doing a total of approximately 650,000 spectators.

Since only a few cinemas were able to perform the complex projection with three projectors, the film " Windjammer " was later copied to Cinemascope. The separation of the left and right film image were clearly visible as bright lines. In rare television broadcasts only the average film image was sent. Thus 60 percent of the film were then not visible.

The process was due to the better handling of single-camera systems such as Cinemascope, Todd - AO, inter alia, abandoned.