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Question

There was a film called 'Scent of Mystery' which featured Smell-O-Vision when different smells were released during the showing. Did that happen in every cinema it played or just at the premiere?

Answer 1

Hello. - It would be quite interesting if Smell-O-Vision returned, in my opinion. I'd probably go to the Theatre, instead of watching movies at home.

I was going to answer your question, it has already been answered.

Have a nice day. :)

Ps. Wednesday, September 07, 2005 -

Audiences at the Japanese premier of the Burton/Depp take on "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," received a special treat Monday as their theater was inundated by the aromas of, you guessed it, chocolate.

The test was part of a series of tests of a "new," technology dubbed "Aromatrix," which is being marketed by a US company called Promotool.

Answer 2

In 1960, when the romantic whodunit "Scent of Mystery" opened in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, audiences were treated to more than just sights and sounds. As the projector droned, a device known as a smell brain pumped 30 different scents—wine, freshly baked bread, pipe tobacco, a salty ocean breeze—through a network of tiny tubes to movie viewers' seats.

This was the debut of "glorious Smell-O-Vision," the masterwork of Hans Laube, touted in publicity accounts of the day as a "world famed osmologist," and the flamboyant, gimmick-loving Hollywood producer Michael Todd Jr. While "Scent of Mystery" wasn't the first attempt to employ aromas in filmmaking, it was by far the most technologically intricate. Beyond that, it was the first—and apparently the only—motion picture that relied on smells as integral devices in the plot. And Laube and Todd had high hopes. Ads for the movie proclaimed: "First they moved (1895)! Then they talked (1927)! Now they smell!"

Answer 3

The premiere.

Answer 4

It was to happen in every theatre it played, but it didn;t stick around long enough

Answer 5

i need smellovision for the film Chocolat

Answer 6

i duno