IMAX remains one of the coolest ways to see movies these days – the resolution and image quality are simply stunning when compared to a traditional presentation. However, long before there was IMAX as we know it, a man named Fred Waller created a precursor to the format – a system known as Cinerama. David Bordwell has recently written a fantastic article on Cinerama and how it worked. It’s interesting stuff if you’re curious about the history of film presentation. I’ll leave the finer details to Bordwell’s piece (which I highly recommend reading) because he explains it all far better than I ever could. However, the gist of the Cinerama system was that it used three projectors to show an image on a deeply curved screen in a way that attempted to...

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