Anamorphic format
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anamorphic-format-178-10526924
title:
Anamorphic format
text:
Anamorphic format is the cinematography technique of shooting a widescreen picture on standard 35 mm film or other visual recording media with a non-widescreen native aspect ratio. It also refers to the projection format in which a distorted image is "stretched" by an anamorphic projection lens to recreate the original aspect ratio on the viewing screen. The word anamorphic and its derivatives stem from the Greek anamorphoo, compound of morphé with the prefix aná. In the late 1990s and 2000s, an
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encyclopedia
description:
Technique for recording widescreen images onto a 4:3 frame
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphic_format
date created:
2007-04-07T11:04:26Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T17:11:09Z
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