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THIS IS

A LOWELL THOMAS AND MERIAN C. COOPER CINERAMA PRESENTATION

Produced by Merion C. Cooper and Robert L. Bendick

PROLOGUE

Lowell Thomas, as narrator, speaking from a regular motion
picture screen, welcomes the audience to Cinerama and briefly
sketches its development. In his famous easy style, he explains
how man has worked since the dawn of history to reproduce in
art the illusion of depth and dimension in nature, to convey the
sense of living motion. His preface ranges from early cave paint-
ings to magic lanterns, nickleodeons and silent pictures, and is
climaxed when the screen suddenly explodes to six times its normal
size and Thomas announces that THIS IS CINERAMA!

THE ATOM SMASHER

The world's fastest, steepest, most exciting ride-on the famed
roller-coaster at Rockaways' Playland-is the sensation that in-
troduces Cinerama, drawing the audience foot by foot up the
precipitous incline, poising for an instant high above the midway
and the breakers far below, and then taking the breathless plunge
-into a whole new world of entertainment.

THE TEMPLE DANCE

In the Temple of Vulcan, the priestesses perform the insinuating
ritual dance to the great god Ptah in the exotic first act finale of
Verdi's "Aida." Filmed in Milan, on the great stage of La Scala,
Cinerama captures the world's most famous opera company in a
performance of the world's most famous opera.