During the 1950s and 1960s, some movie spectacles, especially those in Cinerama, would have the sound and picture perfectly synchronized, but running on separate machines.
He also played a prominent role in Cinerama Inc., the company that created the Cinerama widescreen film process.
The Warner was the primary New York home of Cinerama films during the remaining years of the 1950s and in 1963 installed an even larger screen to present such 70mm films as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
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After closing for renovation in 1952, the theater reopened as the Warner Cinerama Theatre in 1953 with the widescreen film This Is Cinerama.
Todd Jr. was vice president of his father's company, Cinerama, and was responsible for filming the famous roller-coaster scene from the company's debut film, This is Cinerama (1952).
All were the first theaters designed around the Cinerama film technology, with cushioned seats on curving risers.
Webb also composed several cues (uncredited) for This is Cinerama, the first Cinerama production in 1952.
Amongst others, Tracer AMC have played shows with Cinerama, Fugazi, Spiritualized, The Album Leaf, 65 Days of Static, June of 44, Windsor for the Derby, Oceansize, The Lapse, Six by Seven, and toe.
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Designed by the architect Richard L. Crowther, the Cinerama theater was considered his greatest achievement.
The original title was to have been Whatever Happened to Happy Endings? but Cinerama didn't want to use this title, partly because Jean Simmons had just starred in, and been Academy award nominated for, the similarly titled The Happy Ending, and partly because Cinerama feared that because Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? was a film of the era and there was a series of 'Whatever Happened...' films, they might be sued by other companies.