Cinerama

[sin-uh-ram-uh, -rah-muh]

Movies, Trademark.

1. a wide-screen process using three adjacent, synchronized cameras for photographing and three corresponding projectors for showing the film.

Cinerama

/ ˌsɪnəˈrɑːmə /

noun

1. wide-screen presentation of films using either three separate 35mm projectors or one 70mm projector to produce an image on a large deeply curved screen

Example Sentences

At a moment when some of Los Angeles’ most storied movie houses remain dark — most notably the ArcLight Hollywood and Cinerama Dome — and many others are still fighting through a fragile recovery, one of its oldest is taking a significant step toward revival.

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The ArcLight Hollywood and the adjacent Cinerama Dome, closed since 2020, took a small step forward this week when the Central Hollywood Neighborhood Council offered unanimous support for a conditional-use permit allowing the complex to serve alcohol.

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Dome Center LLC, the company that owns the property along Sunset Boulevard upon which the iconic movie venue stands, filed an application for a conditional-use permit to sell alcohol for on-site consumption at the Cinerama Dome Theater and adjoined multiplex Tuesday.

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According to the application filed by the company’s representative, Elizabeth Peterson-Gower of Place Weavers Inc., Dome Center is seeking a new permit that would “allow for the continued sale and dispensing of a full line of alcoholic beverages for on-site consumption in conjunction with the existing Cinerama Dome Theater, 14 auditoriums within the Arclight Cinemas Theater Complex, and restaurant/cafe with two outdoor dining terraces from 7:00 am - 4:00 am, daily.”

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The Cinerama Dome, which first opened in 1963, has been closed since it was shut down at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

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