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Widescreen images are displayed within a set of aspect ratios (relationship of image width to height) used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than 4:3 (1.33:1). For TV, the original screen ratio for broadcasts was in 4:3 (1.33:1).
This is a lost film. Happy Days: 1929 BW Fox Movie Corp. Only survives in a fullscreen copy that was shot at the same time as the widescreen version. No widescreen prints are known to survive. Song of the Flame: 1930 Color (Technicolor) Warner Bros. Fullscreen with one widescreen sequence. A lost film with only the full soundtrack surviving ...
Original Cinerama screen in the Bellevue Cinerama, Amsterdam (1965–2005) 17-meter curved screen removed in 1978 for 15-meter normal screen. [1]Cinerama is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen, subtending 146-degrees of arc.
First known film is the first film (not including tests) made with the format and intended for release. Negative gauge is the film gauge (width) used for the original camera negative. Negative aspect ratio is the image ratio determined by the ratio of the gate dimensions multiplied by the anamorphic power of the camera lenses (1× in the case ...
This may cause some confusion if a Todd-AO credit (not necessarily the more specific Todd-AO 35 credit) appears in some widescreen films made in the 1970s and 1980s. It becomes even more confusing as 70 mm prints were made for films which, unlike earlier pictures made in the process, were shown in multiplexes, like Dune and Logan's Run.
70 mm Grandeur film, also called Fox Grandeur or Grandeur 70, is a 70 mm widescreen film format developed by William Fox through his Fox Film and Fox-Case corporations and used commercially on a small but successful scale in 1929–30.
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.
A 2.35:1 widescreen image letter-boxed in a 1.33:1 screen. Letter-boxing is the practice of transferring film shot in a widescreen aspect ratio to standard-width video formats while preserving the film's original aspect ratio.