The 2012 restoration reformats the picture into a three-dimensional computer graphic, the trademarked Smilebox Curved Screen Simulation, to replicate the film's original theatrical viewing experience.
Unlike the previous Cinerama films, this one opens in the three-panel Cinerama process rather than a conventional screen prologue. Also unlike the previous Cinerama films, this one is narrated by Orson Welles rather than Lowell Thomas.