http://peoriapublicradio.org en http://peoriapublicradio.org/post/cinerama-brought-power-peripheral-vision-movies As early as silent film, directors attempted to create widescreen images. But in the 1950s it became a commercial necessity to give the multitude of new TV watchers what they couldn't get on a small screen. So even before CinemaScope, VistaVision, Todd-AO and Panavision, there was Cinerama — a process in which three projectors threw three simultaneous images onto a gigantic curved screen. Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:53:00 +0000 Lloyd Schwartz 1908 at http://peoriapublicradio.org Cinerama Brought The Power Of Peripheral Vision To The Movies