O beautiful for spacious skies4/6/2023 ![]() Disney, for one, does not rule out its potential adaptation to a highly specialized form of dramatic motion picture presentation. The name Circarama is a play on Cinerama, the three-film, three-projector process used to show some Hollywood features on wide, curving screens in specially-equipped movie houses.ĭoes this mean 360-degree movie houses will be next?Ī paragraph in a New York Times article (“Disney Presents Movies-In-Round,” June 28, 1955) suggests this might happen:Īlthough Circarama is not planned for theatre use at present, Mr. See where you’ve been instead of where you’re going. If you’ve seen this movie too many times-after all, it’s a free attraction-here’s how you can have an entirely new experience: Watch the entire movie facing back screens. The whole idea is to look all around to see what’s going on, even if the filmmakers seem to be directing your attention primarily to the front of the theater. Most other guests are staring at the front screens. This presentation puts you “in the middle of everything.”Įleven movie screens form a circle above your head.Įleven perfectly synchronized projectors show eleven 16mm films, surrounding you with a 360-degree travelogue. You can thank The Bell System and your local host company, Pacific Telephone. There’s no need to reach for your ticket book or to stop at a ticket booth. ![]() Perhaps you’re here because you saw this advertisement in the Los Angeles Times on June 14, 1960:Ĭircarama puts you in the middle of the action, completely surrounded by magnificent motion pictures in color.Īmong the many fascinating places Circarama takes you in “America the Beautiful” are New York Harbor Times Square a Vermont country church set against the splendor of the autumn foliage Williamsburg, Virginia-cradle of American culture Pittsburgh steel mills Detroit automobile factories Midwestern railroad freight yards Oklahoma cowboys rounding up cattle wheat-harvesting combines in Montana copper mines in Utah Monument Valley Hoover Dam The Grand Canyon San Francisco The Golden Gate Bridge and campus life at America’s great University of California at Los Angeles. Today’s certainly the day to fully appreciate this magnificent tribute to America and all that it represents.Photo by Charles R. It was attached to Bates’ words in 1904 after his death. Samuel Howe, a church organist, composed it during an 1882 ferry ride from Coney Island to his home in Newark - for an entirely different hymn. The music plays a large part in the song’s mystique. ![]() The many memorable recordings and renditions - from Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Willie Nelson, Mariah Carey and others - all share a moving simplicity, without the vocal acrobatics that too often accompany “The Star-Spangled Banner.” In 1979, Pope John Paul II recited its fervent prayer - “America, America, God shed his grace on thee” - as he descended from his plane on his first trip to this country. Voices quavered as crowds solemnly sang the song outside the White House in 1941 after Pearl Harbor and, six decades later, at Ground Zero after 9/11. “I can’t read the lines without swallowing hard,” one early reader wrote Bates. The song has always stirred deep emotion. More: It looks forward to a day when America’s “alabaster cities” finally will “gleam undimmed by human tears.” across the wilderness” and pays tribute to the nation’s defenders in war, the brave “heroes. It hails the pioneering forebears who beat “a thoroughfare of freedom. It evokes the vitality of an ever-widening America, celebrates its storied past and - most important - evokes its limitless future potential. ![]() The full hymn is more than just a poetic appreciation of the country’s wonders of nature. In an instant, she said, “the opening lines of the hymn floated into my mind.” Those lines became “America the Beautiful.”Įveryone knows the first verse, with its evocation of “amber waves of grain” and “purple mountain majesties.” But how many have read - let alone sung - the entire song? Katharine Lee Bates, a 33-year-old English literature teacher at Wellesley College, was on “a merry expedition up Pike’s Peak” in Colorado in 1893 when she looked out “over the sea-like expanse of fertile country spreading away so far under those ample skies.” Texas man killed by July 4th firework that exploded on his head Houston DJ dies after July Fourth fall from apartment balcony West Virginia man killed on vacation with his family after offering stranger a ride Cops arrest wanted NYC murder suspect in Georgia ![]()
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