I was wondering why the pictures on both sides of the middle picture looked smaller on How the West Was Won. Why do they crop it like that? I guess I'll watch that movie in the Cinerama Theater in Seattle when I get a chance to get up there.
Too bad there isn't a "Cinerama Mode" on TVs that will automatically make the letterbox Cinerama movies into smile box. I live in Skamokawa, Washington and would love to go to that restored Cinerama Theater in Seattle (160 miles north) and see one of them 3 panel movies.
You probably seen what a Cinerama screen looks like. Well, it's curved. And when they show a Cinerama movie in an ordinary letterbox format, some distortion can occur. Some guy came up with this technique called smilebox to try to get the cinerama experience in the living room. I know it's STILL...