LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

1958's South Seas Adventure was the fifth and last in a series of full-length documentaries designed especially for the 3-camera / 3-projector Cinerama technology. The Cinerama Adventure was a new type of film that traded in big-name stars and plot in an attempt to give the audience a virtual reality-type experience, in this case, a trip in the South Seas. Although the Cinerama films have since become cult classics, the original soundtrack for the film was just one item in composer Alex North's hefty repertoire, which included the soundtracks to such classic films as Spartacus (1960), Cleopatra (1963), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), The Bad Seed (1956) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).