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Jun 4, 2015 · 10 great films shot in CinemaScope. Feel the width of these big and beautiful classics produced in the groundbreaking new widescreen process that revolutionised filmmaking in the 1950s.
CinemaScope Movies. Originated at 2.66:1 (full 1.33:1 silent film aperture with 2:1 squeeze) with a separate film for soundtrack. May 12, 1953, CinemaScope changes to 2.55:1 to accommodate magnetic stereo tracks.
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- Early Implementation
- Audio
- Rival Processes
- Technical Difficulties
- Cinemascope 55
- Decline
- Modern References
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French inventor Henri Chrétien developed and patented a new film process that he called Anamorphoscope in 1926. It was that process which later formed the basis of CinemaScope. Chrétien's process used lenses that employed an optical trick, which produced an image twice as wide as those that were being produced with conventional lenses. That was don...
CinemaScope was developed to use a separate film for sound (see Audio below), thus enabling the full silent 1.33:1 aperture to be available for the picture, with a 2:1 anamorphic squeeze applied that would allow an aspect ratio of 2.66:1. When, however, developers found that magnetic stripes could be added to the film to produce a composite picture...
Fox officials were keen that the sound of their new widescreen film format should be as impressive as the picture, and that meant it should include true stereophonic sound. Previously, stereo sound in the commercial cinema had always employed separate sound films; Walt Disney's 1940 release Fantasia, the first film with stereophonic sound, had used...
CinemaScope itself was a response to early realism processes Cinerama and 3-D. Cinerama was relatively unaffected by CinemaScope, as it was a quality-controlled process that played in select venues, similar to the IMAXfilms of later years. 3-D was hurt, however, by studio advertising surrounding CinemaScope's promise that it was the "miracle you se...
Although CinemaScope was capable of producing a 2.66:1 image, the addition of magnetic sound tracks for multi-channelsound reduced this to 2.55:1. The fact that the image was expanded horizontally when projected meant that there could be visible graininess and brightness problems. To combat this, larger film formats were developed (initially a too-...
CinemaScope 55 was a large-format version of CinemaScope introduced by Twentieth Century Foxin 1955, which used a film width of 55.625 mm. Fox had introduced the original 35 mm version of CinemaScope in 1953 and it had proved to be commercially successful. But the additional image enlargement needed to fill the new wider screens, which had been ins...
Lens manufacturer Panavision was initially founded in late 1953 as a manufacturer of anamorphic lens adapters for movie projectors screening CinemaScope films, capitalizing on the success of the new anamorphic format and filling in the gap created by Bausch and Lomb's inability to mass-produce the needed adapters for movie theaters fast enough. Loo...
The song "Stereophonic Sound" written by Cole Porter for the 1955 Broadway musical Silk Stockings mentions CinemaScope in the lyrics. The first verse is: "Today to get the public to attend the picture show/ It’s not enough to advertise a famous star they know/ If you wanna get the crowds to come around/ You gotta have glorious Technicolor/ Breathta...
Carousel - trivia, IMDbIlias Chrissochoidis (ed.), CinemaScope: Selected Documents from the Spyros P. Skouras Archive(Stanford, 2013)CinemaScope films. Films released in CinemaScope, an anamorphic lens series used, from 1953-present, and less often later, for shooting widescreen films that, crucially, could be screened in theatres using existing equipment, albeit with a lens adapter.
12-year-old Ralph mistakenly records home videos and his favorite late night shows over his parents’ wedding tape. A comedic wave of home shopping clips, censored pornography, & true-crime tales that threaten to rewind reality.
Dec 22, 2015 · As Tarantino fans search for 70-mm showings of his upcoming movie, we look back at the best movies filmed in CinemaScope, the first successful widescreen format.
Americana • Comedy • Musical Comedy. "The Innocents", "Rebel Without a Cause", "Bad Day at Black Rock", "East of Eden", & "La La Land" are on The Best 'CinemaScope' Movies on Flickchart.
