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"The most familiar voice in history,"
lowell Thomas has won fame nat
only as a newscaster but also as on
explorer who has penetrated
virtually every remote corner of the
earth, the author af mare than
40 books, and, now, the man behind
one of the most revolutionary
developments in the entertainment
world. A combat correspondent in
World War I, he gained national
celebrity in 1924 when his account
of his adventures with lawrence of
Arabia was published, and he has
continued to make news, as well as
broadcast it, ever since. His most
exciting exploit? Cinerama.
LOWELL THOMAS

One of Hollywood's most adventurcius The man "who blew up the movies"
(ond successful) pioneers, is a mild-mannered bespectacled
Merion C. Cooper begon his motiot) gentleman in his sixties whose long
picture career with the epoch making list of inventions include water skis,
documentaries "Grass" and "Chang", a wind indicator, a camera that
has since continued to make film takes a 360° picture, and the famous
history by producing and / or directing Photo-Metric device that measures
more than 75 features, climaxed a man for a suit of clothes in a
by "THIS IS CINERAMA" for which he fiftieth of a second. Cinerama is the
was bath co-producer and co-direcior. result of more than fifteen
Off the screen he has pursued an equally painstaking years of research and
development, which began when
dramatic career as one of aviation's
early and most enthusiastic supporters. Waller was head of Paramount's
special effects department and
A veteran airman himself, "Coop" served
started seeking a mechanical means
during World War II as Chief af Staff,
of reproducing on o screen virtually
respectively, for Generals Chennault,
the entire range of huma-n vision.
Kenny and Whitehead.
MERIAN C. COOPER FRED WALLER
What Fred Waller is to Cinerama, Robert l. Bendick, the young
Hazard Reeves is to CineramaSaund 1 co-producer of "This Is Cinerama,"
the unique sound system that brought to the challenging
• completes Cinerama's breathtaking assignment of making the first
illusion af reality. In 1928 Reeves picture in the new medium a colorful
arrived in New York with an background as combat cameraman,
engineering degree from Georgia writer, and television executive. As
Tech and two years later opened his head of the News and Special Events
own recording studio that soan grew Department of CBS, he was
into the largest in the east. When responsible for the first telecast of
war came along Reeves and his the national Republican and
associates founded Reeves-Ely Democratic Conventions in 1948, the
laboratories to make electronic first televised baseball game, and a
products, and by the end of the war series of programs on the United
had won the Army-Navy "E" Award Nations which won for him the
four separate times. He is now president Peabody Award, television's highest
of Reeves Soundcratt Studio. honor.
ROBERT L. BENDICK

CREDITS

TECHNICAL DIRECTION MUSICAL DIRECTOR Louis Forbes, CAMERAMAN Harry Squire,
ASST. CAMERAMAN Jack Priestly, SOUND Richard J. Pietschmann, Jr.,
FILM EDITOR Bill Henry, PAINTINGS Mario Larrinaga
SOUND EFFECTS Reeves Sound Studios
EUROPEAN AND
SUPERVISED BY MICHAEL TODD AND MICHAEL TODD, JR.
NIAGARA FALLS SEQUENCES

PROLOGUE SUPERVISED BY WALTER THOMPSON

"AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL" SUPERVISED BY FRED RICKEY
PILOTED BY PAUL MANTZ/ .AIR SPEED RECORD HOLDER

MUSIC BY CINERAMA PHILHARMONIC. ORCHESTRA, VIENNA PHILHARMONIC,
SALT LAKE CITY TABERNACLE CHOIR, VIEN NA BOYS. CHO IR,
THE LONG ISLAND CHORAL SOCIETY