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  2. Cinerama - Wikipedia

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    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. [2] [3] The trademarked process was marketed by the Cinerama corporation. It was the first of several novel processes introduced during the 1950s when the ...

  3. VistaVision - Wikipedia

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    A VistaVision 35 mm horizontal camera film frame (the dotted area shows the area actually used). VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen variant of the 35 mm motion picture film format that was created by engineers at Paramount Pictures in 1954. Paramount did not use anamorphic processes such as CinemaScope but refined the quality of its ...

  4. Panavision - Wikipedia

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    Panavision is an American motion picture equipment company founded in 1954 specializing in cameras and lenses, based in Woodland Hills, California.Formed by Robert Gottschalk as a small partnership to create anamorphic projection lenses during the widescreen boom in the 1950s, Panavision expanded its product lines to meet the demands of modern filmmakers.

  5. CinemaScope - Wikipedia

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    CinemaScope is an anamorphic lens series used, from 1953 to 1967, and less often later, for shooting widescreen films that, crucially, could be screened in theatres using existing equipment, albeit with a lens adapter. Its creation in 1953 by Spyros P. Skouras, [ 1 ] the president of 20th Century Fox, marked the beginning of the modern ...

  6. Movie projector - Wikipedia

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    Bill Hammack explains how a film projector works. A movie projector (or film projector) is an opto - mechanical device for displaying motion picture film by projecting it onto a screen. Most of the optical and mechanical elements, except for the illumination and sound devices, are present in movie cameras.

  7. Anamorphic widescreen - Wikipedia

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    Anamorphic widescreen (also called full-height anamorphic or FHA) is a process by which a comparatively wide widescreen image is horizontally compressed to fit into a storage medium (photographic film or MPEG-2 standard-definition frame, for example) with a narrower aspect ratio, reducing the horizontal resolution of the image while keeping its full original vertical resolution.