The movie itself is beyond doubt. It is one of the great Hollywood epics with a line up of stars that almost feels unreal. One thing was disturbing my viewing experience. This is one of the very few movies made in Cinerama which means it was filmed with three cameras simultaneously. And those three strips are then put together. It's made for a curved screen - imagine that in 1962 !! From what I gather the result in cinemas was breathtaking. I rermember watching it on TV way back and that must have been a "normal" version. Now I watched the BluRay which has a great picture in general but those three camera shots are now side by side again and on a flat screen this has serious downsides: Perspectives aren't right. If you have, say, a horse running across the screen it's performing a curve. Actors standing on the sides don't seem to look at each other when talking. In one scene Henry Fonda's shooting at a buffalo. His rifle is pointing slight to the right and when he shoots the animal to his left is hit. In general you are always aware when the three cameras are used and it can be very confusing. It took me a while to get used to it.
Review by FinFanBlockedParent2018-05-21T20:14:21Z— updated 2018-05-22T20:15:51Z
The movie itself is beyond doubt. It is one of the great Hollywood epics with a line up of stars that almost feels unreal.
One thing was disturbing my viewing experience. This is one of the very few movies made in Cinerama which means it was filmed with three cameras simultaneously. And those three strips are then put together. It's made for a curved screen - imagine that in 1962 !! From what I gather the result in cinemas was breathtaking. I rermember watching it on TV way back and that must have been a "normal" version. Now I watched the BluRay which has a great picture in general but those three camera shots are now side by side again and on a flat screen this has serious downsides:
Perspectives aren't right. If you have, say, a horse running across the screen it's performing a curve.
Actors standing on the sides don't seem to look at each other when talking.
In one scene Henry Fonda's shooting at a buffalo. His rifle is pointing slight to the right and when he shoots the animal to his left is hit.
In general you are always aware when the three cameras are used and it can be very confusing. It took me a while to get used to it.