Smilebox Effect?

[X5gb]

Does anyone know if its possible and if so how to recreate the Smilebox effect to a letterbox image in something like Premiere.

Would like to add this effect to the whole film of It’s a Mad Mad Mad World, like the trailer for it on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu98eVgF77c

Thanks in advance.

[dvdmike]

You could comp it out of now the west was won for the bars, but the warping it would be a nightmare

[X5gb]

You could comp it out of now the west was won for the bars, but the warping it would be a nightmare

Yea, all options I’ve tried so far give fisheye effect, not like that trailer. Read somewhere else debarrel in avisynth can be used but not clued up on that program. Surprised no one has created a software to replicate this.

[Doctor M]

I thought How the West Was Won and The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm were the only two films in this format that needed it.
Was ...Mad World actually that format or just very wide?

I'm wondering if a 3D conversion (but in 2D) might work.

[X5gb]

Filmed in Ultra Panavision 70 and presented in Cinerama, roadshow versions, (becoming one of the early single-camera Cinerama features produced) so just very wide (2.76:1). No three strip process.

https://incinerama.com/iammmmw.htm

The Smilebox effect actually enhances it based on that trailer and so would love to have it recreated for the whole film if anyone knows how to do it.

[Doctor M]

Maybe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWph4_1XgkU

[X5gb]

Maybe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWph4_1XgkU

Think that makes everything look fisheye though. Not straight lines like the trailer, am I correct.