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AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

To provide the spectacular climax to "This Is Cine-
rama," a souped-up B-25 Army Bomber, with veteran
airman Paul Mantz at the controls and the Cinerama
camera resting in its rebuilt plexiglass nose, took off on
a swift cross-country Aight across America ...
From the great harbor and skyline of Manhattan
Island, Cinerama Aew south to the monuments and parks
of the nation's capital, across the Potomac and west to
Pittsburgh's "Golden Triangle," where the Monongahela
meets the Allegheny in the industrial heart of America ...
Then across the midwest farmland and up to Lake

Michigan, past the riverfront towers of Chicago, rail hub
of the nation. Then on to storied Cairo, where the muddy
Mississippi and the not-so-muddy Ohio become one ...
across "Ole Miss," where modern riverboats have taken
the place of side-wheeler showboats and Huck Finn's raft,
westward over "the fruited plain," the sun-baked wheat-
fields of Kansas ...
Across the vast vari-colored deserts of the Southwest,
with their cliffs and canyons, as the Salt Lake Tabernacle
Choir provides stirring accompaniment with "The Battle
Hymn Of The Republic." High in the clouds above the
snow-covered Rockies and Sierras, then into . California
and under the Golden Gate Bridge at America's "gate-
way to the Orient." Bryce Canyon with its weird rock for-
mations, Hoover Dam, and Yosemite. The Grand Canyon,
which, they say, is really but a furrow from Paul Bunyon 's
plow ...
And on Mantz Aew, through some of the most treach-
erous Aying country in the world, actually down into the
twisting, rocky defiles of the canyon in Utah's Zion
National Park at 300 miles per hour. Then up into the
clouds, over the Continental Divide, and home ...

This, then, is America, the heart of a continent, as
seen through new eyes ... a scenic tour de force of light,
color, and sound.
"I thought I had seen everything there was to see
across America," said Lowell Thomas, "but C'{lerama
changed my mind. Here is an America of breath-taking
beauty and splendor that only Cinerama can picture and
bring to you."