Windjammer (1958 film)
Windjammer is a 1958 documentary film that recorded a voyage of the Norwegian sail training ship Christian Radich. Windjammer was produced by Louis de Rochemont and directed by Louis de Rochemont III. It was the only film to be shot in the widescreen Cinemiracle process, which came with a seven-track stereophonic soundtrack. Filming The Christian Radich and its Norwegian crew were filmed while sailing from Oslo, via the island of Madeira, across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, to New York City, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and then back home to Bergen in Norway. The film features a score by Morton Gould, with additional musical performances by cellist Pablo Casals and Arthur Fiedler conducting the Boston Pops Orchestra. A musical highlight through the film is the Piano Concerto of Edvard Grieg, which accompanies the voyage narrative about one of the sea-cadets who is a piano-student preparing to play the concerto in Boston. The film also features a meeting with the German ship Pamir, which sank in a hurricane in September 1957. Presentation The world premiere was on April 7, 1958 at the Colosseum kino in Oslo, Norway attended by King Olav V and the Norwegian Royal Family. Its US premiere was on