This second Cinerama feature and the highest grossing film, back in the fifties,might of excited audiences of the day,but,looking at it today the first half of this features the story is slow moving and the static shots are very noticeable;e.This was the second Cinerama feature that attempted a story with some actual dialog coming from the characters,Betty and her husband johnny as well as Beatrice and her husband Fred.The two women are still with us.Fred died of cancer in 2002 and Johnny died in a car accident,long after he and Betty divorced.There even some careful close up shots in the film.While This is Cinerama carried a quick punch and The voyage of the Christin Radish too.But ,as I said The first half is a bit slow,except the Las Vegas show number slightly picks the speed up,then goes back slow.Near the end of the first half when Betty and johnny are at Swiss restaurant and show place eating fondue and a sing number that involves yodeling happens the speed pick up again.The second half finally pick up speed.There are more exciting scenes in that.It seems the french scenes are the best.The pacing better.the children theater that has the violent puppet show of little red riding hood.The artist and models ball where ,Betty ,behind the camera felt that everybody was high on Marijuana .She stated that after her divorce,in the interview of the disk ,that she would change her self.A french public school class room in which all the students ,including the teacher speaks English,for the Cinerama camera.A tamed version of a probably risqué night club act at the lido, for the Cinerama American cameras.Back in the fifties even France was less prudish about sex than the United states and had bare breasted risqué dance shows ,or at least see through costumes,in their dance number at the Lido.The American cameras were not going to show that.The real best were the ballet sequence,of France and the American naval air plane sequence ,in which Fred was allowed to drive on of the naval planes.The first pat as I said was a bit slow but it had some things that picked it up at the moment.The toboggan sequence as well as the ski sequence ,or was the ski sequence the second half?All in all it was still a good movie.The break down reel was not perfect it barely survived the ravishes of time.I was playing the Blu-Ray disc part it was excellent in it's transfers.the movie it's elf,the way i saw it , was good as a whole ,but, it was not an excellent Cinerama feature .May be it's my mentality. 10/28/13. I checked the d.v.d version.I was looking at the Blu-Ray version first,That slow pace feeling was not in the d.v.d version.Strange!I give it one more number.It is a 10. 10/29/13
Review of Cinerama Holiday
