''Search for Paradise'' is a 1957 American documentary film shot in
Cinerama
Cinerama is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35 mm movie film, 35mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen, Subtended angle, subtending 146-degrees of arc. The trademarked pr ...
. It was directed by Otto Lang and produced by Lowell Thomas with distribution by Cinerama Releasing Corp.
Background
In October and November 1956, a
Cinerama
Cinerama is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35 mm movie film, 35mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen, Subtended angle, subtending 146-degrees of arc. The trademarked pr ...
motion picture ''Search for Paradise'', directed by
Otto Lang, and produced by
Lowell Thomas
Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, Television presenter, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker. He authored more than fifty non-fiction books, mostly travel narratives and popular biographies of ex ...
, was filmed in part at
Eglin Air Force Base
Eglin Air Force Base is a United States Air Force (USAF) base in the western Florida panhandle, located about southwest of Valparaiso, Florida, Valparaiso in Okaloosa County, Florida, Okaloosa County.
The host unit at Eglin is the 96th Test ...
, Florida, under the working title of ''Search for Shangri-La''. The film "tells the story of a veteran officer, who wants 'out' but finds, after searching the world for a 'Shangrila,'
icthat the U. S. Air Force is 'it.'"
"Some of the action-packed events captured at Eglin include
F-100 'Super Sabres' breaking the sound barrier, in-flight refueling of
B-47 'Stratojet' medium bombers, landings and mass fly-bys of the latest operational U. S. Air Force aircraft. Hollywood stunt flyer and combat veteran
Paul Mantz
Albert Paul Mantz (August 2, 1903 – July 8, 1965) was an American air racing and movie stunt pilot and consultant from the late 1930s until his death in the mid-1960s. He gained fame on two stages: Hollywood and in air races.
Early years
Ma ...
, was contracted by
Stanley Warner to fly his specially built
B-25
The North American B-25 Mitchell is an American medium bomber that was introduced in 1941 and named in honor of Brigadier General William "Billy" Mitchell, a pioneer of U.S. military aviation. Used by many Allied air forces, the B-25 served ...
in filming a number of aerial sequences . The Cinerama camera can be placed in the nose or tail gunnery slot of the World War II aircraft to film the panorama called for in this latest 'wide-curved' screen production." Release by Stanley Warner, Inc., it was expected in the spring of 1957, according to a news article in ''The Okaloosa News-Journal'',
Crestview, Florida, in November 1956.
[Crestview, Florida, "Cinerama Crews Shooting New Movie At Eglin AFB", ''The Okaloosa News-Journal'' – ''Edgewater Area News'' section, Thursday 1 November 1956, Volume 42, Number 44, page 1.]
See also
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List of American films of 1957
This is a list of American films released in 1957.
'' The Bridge on the River Kwai'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Documentary
See also
* 1957 in the United States
References
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References
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1957 films
1957 documentary films
1950s English-language films
1950s American films
English-language documentary films
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