| Cinerama Holiday | |
| Director: | Robert L. Bendick Philippe De Lacy |
| Starring: | Fred Troller Beatrice Troller John Marsh Betty Marsh |
| Music: | Morton Gould with additional music by Jack Shaindlin and Nathan Van Cleave |
| Cinematography: | Joseph C. Brun Harry Squire |
| Editing: | Jack McCay Fredrick Y. Smith Les Zackling |
| Distributor: | Cinerama Releasing Corporation |
| Runtime: | 119 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $1.5 million[1] |
| Gross: | $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 (John and Betty Marsh) traveling in Europe and a Swiss couple (Fred Troller and Beatrice Troller)[3] 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 visited include Davos, Paris, New Orleans & an early Las Vegas.
The film earned $10 million in domestic rentals[4] 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.[5]