CinemaScope
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cinemascope-188-12348847
title:
CinemaScope
text:
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, the president of 20th Century Fox, marked the beginning of the modern anamorphic format in both principal 2.55:1, almost twice as wide as the previously common Academy format's 1.37:1 ratio. Although the technology behind the CinemaScope
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Early widescreen filming system
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinemaScope
date created:
2003-04-07T10:53:57Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T22:12:04Z
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