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In the absence of ultrawide screens IAMMMMW should play nicely on very big scope screens with proper vertical masking and curtains that actually close all the way down to get a proper roadshow experience. Not sure where these could be found, they seem to have become extremely rare.

Negative cleaning sounds interesting, did you get an idea how much the negative was used and how often it was cleaned during the period of the initial release? Yes they seem to have been very popular and obviously suited quite well for Cinerama theaters but it is rather unpleasant to see them...

Would you happen to know how many non-rectified prints were struck? Over here in Europe it seems that the 5 Cinerama movies shot in UP70 are only available in either flat prints with cropped sides or in rectified prints. Not very good choices when watching them on screens without a very deep curve.

The lower bitrate is not an issue with IAMMMMW taking up less than two thirds of the frame. It is the equivalent of encoding a 1.85 movie at ca. 35 mbps which would be considered to be above average, especially for a longer movie.

I am sure you had a lot of fun with those parts with regard to both geometry and color!

If one really wanted to emulate the projection as it was on a deeply curved cinerama screen then one would have to cut out part of the frame, add some distortion in the way it was used with rectified prints or in the way it was introduced with non-rectified prints and call it a day. Probably...

Correct and this is also the reason why smilebox is not needed with a single strip film as they do not have this kind of bent lines.

Very true, watched Around the World for the fist time in 70mm and 30 fps this year and it is hard to believe that even though this looked so good 30 fps were basically abandoned for big Hollywood productions from that point on..

I am a bit surprised about the aspect ratio as IAMMMMW had an aspect ratio of almost exactly 2.76:1 when it aired on MGM HD. Looking forward to check it out!