To the Moon and Beyond

To The Moon and Beyond is a special motion picture produced for and shown at the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair.

It depicted traveling from Earth out to an overall view of the universe and back again, zooming down to the atomic scale.

It was filmed in a Cinerama process using a camera with a single fisheye lens and projected onto a dome screen.

The film was made in a format called "The New CINERAMA - 360 Process" It was shown in a 96-foot-high "Moon Dome" that was part of Transportation and Travel building (Pavilion No.

[3] Graphic Films' Lester Novros, Con Pederson, and background artist Douglas Trumbull would air-mail research based concept sketches and notes covering the mechanics and physics of space travel to Kubrick in England during pre-production.

1964 New York World's Fair with the "Moon Dome" of To The Moon and Beyond in the foreground
Felix Bednarz designed the Cinerama 360 lens for Fairchild-Curtis (US 3,230,826 [1961])