Smell-O-Vision

== English == === Etymology === From smell +‎ -o- (interfix used for ease of pronunciation) +‎ vision, recoined in 1959 by Mike Todd Jr. (1929–2002), the American producer of the film Scent of Mystery (1960) which used the Smell-O-Vision system invented by the Swiss scientist Hans Laube (1900–1976), possibly modelled after terms used in the motion picture industry such as Panavision (a company manufacturing cameras and lenses) and VistaVision (an early widescreen motion picture film format): see the November 1959 quotation. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈsmɛləˌvɪʒən/ Hyphenation: Smell-O-Vis‧ion === Proper noun === Smell-O-Vision (originally and chiefly US, film, historical) A system that choreographed the release of odors into a movie theater during the projection of a film. [from 1959] ==== Alternative forms ==== Smell-o-vision (rare) smellovision, Smellovision smellevision smellavision, smell-a-vision ==== Related terms ==== smell-o-vision (common noun) ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === Smell-O-Vision on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Anthony Slide (1998), “AROMARAMA AND SMELL-O-VISION”, in The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry, 1st paperback edition, Lanham, Md.; Folkestone, Kent: The Scarecrow Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 12.