Background
Fred Waller was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. , the son of Frederic and Katherine Stearns Waller. His father was an early commercial photographer in New York City and also worked as a newspaper reporter and magazine editor.
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Fred Waller was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. , the son of Frederic and Katherine Stearns Waller. His father was an early commercial photographer in New York City and also worked as a newspaper reporter and magazine editor.
Raised in Brooklyn, Waller left Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute at the age of fourteen to work in his father's photographic studio.
In 1905, the family business was organized as the Fred Waller Company; Waller was vice-president until 1917. During this period he invented the first automatic printer and timer. Waller had first entered the motion picture field in 1905 as a creator of lobby displays, and in 1917 he became vice-president of the Rotograph Company in New York City. However, World War I created shortages of supplies; and unable to continue with his displays, Waller opened an illustrating studio in 1918. He continued in that work until 1923, making exclusive title illustrations for Famous Players-Lasky, a forerunner of Paramount Pictures Corporation. In 1922, with Dwight Deere Wiman and others, Waller established the Film Guild, Incorporated, serving as treasurer in charge of production. Although the eight films produced by the guild were artistic successes, they proved to be financial failures; and in 1924 Waller returned to Paramount as head of the special effects department. While working in the trick film division and conducting photographic research he designed Paramount's first optical printer. In 1927, when the New York City production studio was closed, Waller became a partner in William H. Young and Company, a New York sales agency specializing in motorboats and related equipment. Waller had always been interested in boats and sailing, and he invented and patented water skis. In 1929 Waller rejoined Paramount in charge of the production and direction of short subjects. In 1936 he left again to begin work on feature films for the New York World's Fair. That year, with a group of associates, Waller bought out a Boston firm, reorganized it as the Kenyon Instrument Company, Incorporated, and moved it to Huntington, N. Y. As president of the company until 1942, Waller expanded its manufacturing line, producing aircraft instruments and accessories as well as nautical instruments. He became chairman of the board in 1942. During the New York World's Fair Waller built his first model of what later became the Cinerama process. In 1937, he began work with the architect Ralph Walker on a special exhibit for the oil industry. Walker wanted to fill the inside of a domed building with motion pictures, and Waller originated the idea of employing half the surface of a dome, using eleven 16-mm. projectors. The following year they established the Vitarama Company to develop such a concave-screen process. However, the exhibitors considered the scheme too radical and refused to sponsor it. With the advent of World War II, Waller and Walker adapted the process for use as the flexible gunnery trainer, which proved very useful to the armed forces. After the war, Vitarama became Cinerama, and Waller set up a small research laboratory near his Huntington home to work on the process. By 1949 he was ready to give his first private demonstration of Cinerama. Confronted by the growing competition of television, the movie industry was receptive to experimentation; financial backing was soon found, and Cinerama, Incorporated, was established with Waller as chairman. On September 30, 1952, This Is Cinerama opened at the Broadway Theatre in New York City. It was enthusiastically received and ran for more than two years. In the Cinerama process, three strips of film are exposed by three lenses mounted at forty-eight-degree angles. The film, which is one-and-a-half times the height of 35-mm. film, is shown with three projectors on a wide and sharply curved screen, thus affording the viewer the illusion of being in the middle of the action. Cinerama made the motion picture industry aware of the great possibilities of wide screens, and in 1954 Waller received an Academy Award for his contribution. He died in Huntington.
He is most known for his contributions to film special effects while working at Paramount Pictures, for his creation of the Waller Flexible Gunnery Trainer, and for inventing Cinerama, the immersive experience of a curved film screen that extends to the viewer's peripheral vision for which he received an Academy Award.
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On October 2, 1905, he married Irene Seymour; they had two children. His first marriage ended in divorce in 1919, and he married Grace Fortescue Hubbard on August 12, 1920. After the death of his second wife in 1941, Waller married Doris Barber Caron on July 21, 1942.
