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Cinerama joined three projectors into one picture

Each machine filled a third of a deep curved screen and the seams were blended Cinerama, unveiled in 1952 with This Is Cinerama, was shot with three linked cameras and projected with three machines onto a screen that wrapped around the audience. Overlapping edges were feathered so the joins were hard to see. The rig was costly and only a few cinemas could show it. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Each machine filled a third of a deep curved screen and the seams were blended. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.