"HOW THE WEST WAS WON" (1962) HD RESTORED TRAILER IN CINERAMA SMILEBOX FORMAT

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "How the West Was Won" (1962) was an epic feature film and one of the last "old-fashioned" large scale western films made by M-G-M. Stars: Carroll Baker, Walter Brennan, Lee J. Cobb, Andy Devine, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Raymond Massey, Agnes Moorehead, Harry Morgan, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, Thelma Ritter, Mickey Shaughnessy, Russ Tamblyn, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Richard Widmark. Narrated by Spencer Tracy. Produced by Bernard Smith. Directors: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe (uncredited transitional historical sequences). Written by James R. Webb and John Gay (uncredited). Magnificent Musical Score by Alfred Newman. Film editor: Harold F. Kress. See full credits here: www.imdb.com/title/tt0056085/...
The score was listed at number 25 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years of Film Scores. The film also gained widespread critical acclaim. In 1997, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Restored Trailer in CInerama Smilebox Curved Screen Simulation (trademarked by David Strohmaier).
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[@speedracer1945]

Imagine how crazy it was for the projectionist back then to run 3 projectors at the same time and change reels on time !

[@vgmaster9]

ScreenX has nothing on this.

[@pegbars]

Each projector had its own operator.

[@terryasheim9038]

Reel changes were only done at intermission.

[@craigm9133]

This movie needs to be converted to watch with VR goggles.

[@narabdela]

Could this be the dumbest comment ever posted on KZbin? 🙄

[@Flowerchild778]

Great idea 💡

[@JimColyer]

This sums up America's westward expansion and uses a classic cast to do it. We encounter John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart & Debbie Reynolds. How the West Was Won is in 5 parts: "The Rivers," "The Plains," "The Civil War," "The Railroad" & "The Outlaws." It covers 50 years between 1839 and 1889, a sizable chunk of American history. It is one of over 500 films preserved by the Library of Congress as part of its National Film Registry. I saw it with Jean Adair in the summer of 1963.

[@charlyromeo7926]

Yeah at that time in the movies, theaters, and sideshows Indians were portrayed by Anglo-Saxons and Jews as blacks were up to that time. The once upon a time in the West is also Library of Congress as part of its National Film Registry as one out of the three top Westerns and is not even American made

[@rgerber]

Unfortunately i haven't seen this movie yet but this is how a movie is supposed to look. Not how modern movies look. It is very very appealing. The colors and images are just spectacular

[@pegbars]

3-panel Cinerama will never look this good in theatres. The seams can't be concealed like they can in a digital restoration. Slight differences in the focal lengths of the projection lenses alone make it impossible for the images to align vertically... there's always a slight mismatch that framing can't correct.

[@cultfilmfreakreviews]

you need to see it in a theater. this looks like someone's Tv is melting

[@JoseyWales44s]

@@cultfilmfreakreviews The "smilebox" is the best way to view a Cinerama film on a flat-screen.

[@StinkFingerr]

Get the restored edition with the "Smilebox" Disc included.

[@shaihulud69]

quel film ! les vrais valeurs, justice, liberté, famille, amour , courage !

[@grandpaears8746]

This and "Jason and the Argonauts" were formative as a teenager.

[@morlockmeat]

This trailer looked great! Looked pristine!

[@raulvz]

Much better than IMAX

[@simonlunt353]

Love this film l have it on blu ray and always Watch in the smile format just wish I could see it at the cinema

[@dontworrydon]

I dare say my favorite western.

[@Uryanskiy]

Класс! На проекторе смотреть одно удовольствие!

[@abseconPC]

This would probably look great on an IMAX dome

[@Puppetoons]

The restored feature was shown at the Hollywood Cinerama Dome a couple of times in recent years.

[@SuperSy99]

This is superior than imax

[@pegbars]

It would look terrible. Geometries don't match.

[@willydiamant3089]

Best music ever !

[@miked6335]

Sounds like Art Gilmore doing the narration. North = Andy Devine South = Russ Tamblyn How did the North ever win the Civil War? The last couple of minutes of the movie are jaw dropping. What were they thinking?

[@LouieFink77]

:-D

[@JonInLondon]

That would be John Wayne... ;-)

[@weitzfc1]

sam and uncle billy. @@JonInLondon

[@susanne4795]

Classic.

[@bhagaskaraa.pratista9667]

The cast was stacked

[@songsmith31a]

I even recall an uncredited Lee Van Cleef as one of the "river pirates" on lookout and spotting the approach of Jimmy Stewart's mountain man Linus Rawlins. A great Western epic, embellished by one of the great film scores from Alfred Newman.

[@user-vo9my4zl7o]

Carol Baker is the only actor in this film alive today at 92!

[@ZJ-ne9kn]

Just got done watching it great movie mgm was kind of struggling at the time and needed a big hit like this very suprised during the commentary no mention of the near death of stuntman though

[@rah2287]

A majestic motion picture. Fortunate to see it as a young boy in my hometown theater. Films such as these gave young boys the right kind of men to emulate. Now Hollyweird pumps out degenerate alphabet nonsense. Our nation is lost.

[@Puppetoons]

On many levels I can't help but agree with you. For us it was a time of great wonder and awe and as you say majesty

[@dionst.michael1482]

Amen ❤

[@mikegym64]

There should be a blue-ray in this format

[@metro3692]

There is!

[@HoorayTV21]

@@metro3692 Been meaning to buy it. Does it have this trailer scanned from an original or just this with the awful digital lettering all of these cinerama trailers have online?

[@alucard624]

The Blu Ray has this "Smile Box" style version for the entire film. I watched it once on a curved big screen TV and it was amazing and the closest you can get to seeing how it was originally shown in theaters. It's hands down the best way to watch this epic film.

[@pegbars]

@@HoorayTV21 I noticed that, too. They're like fanboy versions using default font settings. I think a couple of them even used Comic Sans.

[@johnmiltonda583]

"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"

[@lanjohnson4008]

Where can I buy this version ..tcm played it and nobody else has shown it.

[@Puppetoons]

Check on Amazon

[@ronnyX28]

Give the full movie, I came here for Tuco

[@gracericco3320]

Who was Carol Baker in the movie. No mention of Debbie Reynolds in the cast.

[@drhkleinert8241]

Eve Prescott, the more beautyfull daughter of "Karl Malden"

[@nowvoyager8438]

@@drhkleinert8241 well, most of the people think Debbie Reynolds is the most beautiful daughter and the most talented 😃

[@MrKylePopovich]

what happened at 0:53 ? the train scene colour is washed out? and 1:00 and at 1:13 the Thelma Ritter water scene

[@Puppetoons]

We did not restore this but my guess its the Neat Video program that may have been used which tends to brighten and wash certain shots depending on its source material

[@MrKylePopovich]

​@@Puppetoons Oh okay! Was this from the 2008 bluray? So many shots are not in the final movie! Thanks for the information! I just uploaded my own version (with the final movie shots) to my channel. Love your work, Puppetoon, and thanks for the continued work in cinema history! EDIT: ALL those washed out shots are missing from the movie! They must have used the original trailer shots... Very curious! The original reels must be lost in the MGM basement somewhere...

[@lolshark99b49]

AWESOME VIOLENCE

[@pegbars]

Good, but... 02:50 you misspelled Agnes Moorehead. Also, your typefaces and other elements don't match the original trailer. Finally, HTWWW was in Metrocolor, not Technicolor. (prints were by Technicolor).

[@Puppetoons]

I did not do the trailer - it was the trailer done by Warner Bros. when they released the restored version on Blu-ray. They changed the font, did not add Metrocolor and misspelled Agnes Moorehead. Send your letter to Warner Brothers home entertainment department which is now run by a whole new regime. I doubt they will respond or do anything about it.

[@Puppetoons]

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[@Steven-nd1pz]

"..who left the frontier for a gayer life.." My, how times have changed.

[@suezq2372]

Where's the movie

[@Puppetoons]

Warner Bros. has it on KZbin Movies - don't know if its the restored version - kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6GqnmeOqbx1iNE

[@cultfilmfreakreviews]

for anyone who wants to see this on blu ray, it's not smart... you have to have a theater with a screen the cinerama shape and three cameras to get the look right... having it look like this on TV is just lame...

[@JoseyWales44s]

The smile-box is fine once you get used to it. It's the best representation of the curved screen that can be displayed on a flat screen. Not everyone has access to a full fledged Cinerama screen that is showing this particular movie.

[@JimColyer]

Saw this with my first girl friend.

[@Charlienmeg]

Was she called Jean?

[@madmau]

If not for Lilith marrying Cleve, I would've though she was a lesbian. Then this trailer says she left the Frontier for a gayer life and i'm like "they said it, not me!"

[@weitzfc1]

back then , gay meant happy ,. stupid.

[@kevinfarrell523]

The indigenous Indians?

[@johnmorgan792]

I have this on DVD and the aspect ratio is terrible. If only it was 16:9.

[@Puppetoons]

I believe the Blu-ray is

[@narabdela]

Oh ffs!

[@disconnected22]

You have that old cardboard case MGM DVD?

[@DaveLucas427]

The widescreen presentation looks great, but the movie itself is corny as hell. One critic, citing so many Western cliches in the film, stated, "It should be called How the West Was Done--To Death."

[@taroman7100]

corny in an innocent sorta way...