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| Cinerama Holiday | |
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| Directed by | Robert L. Bendick Philippe De Lacy |
| Cinematography | Joseph C. Brun Harry Squire |
| Edited by | Jack McCay Fredrick Y. Smith Les Zackling |
| Music by | Morton Gould with additional music by Jack Shaindlin and Nathan Van Cleave |
| Distributed by | Cinerama Releasing Corporation |
Release date | February 8, 1955 |
Running time | 119 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.5 million [1] |
| Box office | $29.6 million [2] |
Cinerama Holiday is a 1955 film shot in Cinerama. Structured as a criss-cross travel documentary, it shows an American couple traveling in Europe and a European couple 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.
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The film earned $10 million in domestic rentals [3] (equivalent to $109,242,236in 2022) and became the highest-grossing film of 1955 in the United States, surpassing other motion pictures such as Mister Roberts , Battle Cry and Oklahoma! .
Largely unseen for decades, the film was released on Blu-ray in 2013, restored and remastered from the original camera negatives. [4]
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