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Smell-O-Mersion 2020

Smell-O-Vision was a system that released odor during the projection of a film so that the viewer could “smell” what was happening in the movie. The technique was created by Hans Laube and made its only appearance in the 1960 film Scent of Mystery, produced by Mike Todd Jr, The process injected 30 odors into a movie theater's seats when ...

Jon Peddie

Smell-O-Vision was a system that released odor during the projection of a film so that the viewer could “smell” what was happening in the movie. The technique was created by Hans Laube and made its only appearance in the 1960 film Scent of Mystery, produced by Mike Todd Jr, The process injected 30 odors into a movie theater's seats when triggered by the film's soundtrack. Experiments in theaters actually date back to 1906 when aromas were blown by a fan into the audience. Many years later, around the late 1990s, a French company introduced a kiosk with scent-a-roma, which inspired
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