What movie did you last see?

[mordant]

Cinerama is largely forgotten today but it was billed as an event, like a stage play with printed programs and everyone dressed in their finest. It originally used three cameras and three projectors through 146 degrees of arc. To achieve this without light reflecting and washing out one end of the screen from the other, the screen actually consisted of countless vertical strips, each a little under an inch wide.

I recall seeing another Cinerama opus on TV in the 70s -- How The West Was Won -- and during a scene in which people were moving supplies in a whitewater raft, which translated particularly poorly to the small TV screen of the day, I remember seeing the spot where two of the projected images didn't quite match up.