Francis

FRANCIS RUSSELL

Cinerama is for me mostly a physiological problem. After vicariously riding the roller coaster downhill or dashing across the winter steppes in a troika, I notice my stomach beginning to turn over. And the scent of popcorn doesn’t help any. When-ewi I face the longueurs of the concave screen I find it advisable to carry a plastic flight bag with me. For me Cinerama has come to seem a gadget, a sort of visualized Lowell Thomas engaged in warming up platitudes of scenery. So I did not expect much when, flight bag in my pocket, I infiltrated Boston’s combat zone on lower Washington Street to see the Cinerama version of Far From the Madding Crowd.

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FRANCIS RUSSELL

Cinerama is for me mostly a physiological problem. After vicariously riding the roller coaster downhill or dashing across the winter steppes in a troika, I notice my stomach beginning to turn over. And the scent of popcorn doesn’t help any. When-ewi I face the longueurs of the concave screen I find it advisable to carry a plastic flight bag with me. For me Cinerama has come to seem a gadget, a sort of visualized Lowell Thomas engaged in warming up platitudes of scenery. So I did not expect much when, flight bag in my pocket, I infiltrated Boston’s combat zone on lower Washington Street to see the Cinerama version of Far From the Madding Crowd.