https://www.cinerama.com/home daily 1.0 2025-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622f6f45a8f1874b33317f25/94f43227-6dbd-4288-8266-e282ba31c089/D-M-Gallery-1.jpg Home A unique architectural achievement At a height of more than 70 feet, the Cinerama Dome is an unmissable landmark designed by Welton Becket & Associates, the legendary LA firm. The Dome was constructed from 316 concrete polygons, weighing in at 7,500 pounds apiece, and the entire building was completed over a remarkable 16 weeks of round-the-clock work in 1963. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622f6f45a8f1874b33317f25/2f3fc705-8240-413b-bc7c-5e6dc8241940/D-M-Gallery-2.jpg Home Built with innovation in mind The theater was created to show Cinerama movies, a novel shooting and projecting process that involved three cameras and a huge, curved screen. The idea was to engulf an audience’s field of vision so thoroughly that TV was driven from their minds. The process didn’t last, but the 86-foot screen remained, leaving moviegoers awestruck for more than 50 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622f6f45a8f1874b33317f25/9442786e-03a5-45bc-ab50-2a7e9415c1d2/D-M-Gallery-3.jpg Home The perfect place for a premiere Since the worldwide debut of Stanley Kramer’s It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, a black tie gala attended by Hollywood royalty, the Dome has played host to dozens of auspicious openings, including Apocalypse Now, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and E.T. The premiere of Yentl, which included a sit-down dinner outside the theater, cost over $500,000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622f6f45a8f1874b33317f25/f5bfbb9d-e1dc-452a-8ced-ea27aa479871/D-M-Gallery-4.jpg Home A magnet for LA movie lovers Over time, the Cinerama Dome and the City of Angels developed a sort of symbiosis. Here, Hollywood’s finest could take in a movie alongside serious cinephiles, and the building could bask in the glow of their devotion. COVID-19 forced the theater to shutter, but the Dome still stands, missed dearly by its denizens, and ready to add to its remarkable history. https://www.cinerama.com/photo-credits daily 0.75 2022-06-23 https://www.cinerama.com/legal daily 0.75 2022-06-24