 Complete the following phrase:  Cinerama was invented by Fred Waller 18861954 and languished in the laboratory for several years before Waller, joined by Hazard Buzz Reeves, brought it to the attention of Lowell Thomas who, first with Mike Todd and later with Merian C. Cooper, produced a commercially viable demonstration of Cinerama that opened on Broadway on September 30, 1952. The film, titled This is Cinerama, was received with enthusiasm. It was the outgrowth of many years of development. A forerunner was the triple-screen final sequence in the silent Napoléon 1927 directed by Abel Gance; Gances classic was considered lost in the 1950s, however, known of only by hearsay, and Waller could not have actually viewed it. Waller had earlier developed an 11-projector system called Vitarama at the Petroleum Industry exhibit in the 