This reminded me of when my parents took to Cinerama, a widescreen process that originally projected images simul-taneously from three synchronized 35mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen. The nearest screen was at the Detroit Music Hall and the movie playing was "How The West Was Won" that featured an all-star cast with John Ford sharing the directing duties. It was in 1963 and I was nine years old. I clearly remember one shot, done at ground level of a stampede of horses/wagons/buffalo which drew a lot of gasps from the audience. The film, looking back, was pure White Man's Manifest Destiny mythological propaganda-hell, it had John Wayne in it. I'm surprised this hasn't been resurrected by some wacky Texas school board for required viewing in their American History classes.
Yes, scenes like this conflate the sheer feeling of power and movement with rights and even destiny.
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