''Cinerama Holiday'' is a 1955 film shot in
Cinerama
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. Structured as a criss-cross
travel documentary
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, it shows an American couple (John and Betty Marsh) traveling in Europe and a Swiss couple (
Fred Troller and Beatrice Troller) traveling in the United States. Like all of the original Cinerama productions, the emphasis is on spectacle and scenery. The European sequences include a point-of-view bobsled ride, while the U.S. sequences include a point-of-view landing on an aircraft carrier.
Places
Places visited include
Davos
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,
Paris
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,
New Orleans
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& an early
Las Vegas
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.
Reception
The film earned $10 million in domestic rentals
() and became the
highest-grossing film of 1955 in the United States, surpassing other motion pictures such as ''
Mister Roberts'', ''
Battle Cry
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'' and ''
Oklahoma!
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''.
Largely unseen for decades, the film was released on Blu-ray in 2013, restored and remastered from the original camera negatives.
Cinerama: Holiday Blu-ray
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References
Further reading
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External links
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''Cinerama Holiday''
at TCMDB
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1955 films
1955 documentary films
Cinerama
Films set in Paris
Films set in Switzerland
Films set in the Alps
Films set in the United States
Films set in the Las Vegas Valley
Films set in New Orleans
Films set in New York City
Films set in San Francisco
Films set in Washington, D.C.
1950s English-language films
American documentary films
Films scored by Morton Gould
English-language documentary films