CinemaScope
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- Instance of
- film format
- Subclass of
- anamorphic format
- Image
- Broken lance1.jpg
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- CinemaScope
- topic's main category
- Category:CinemaScope films
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Origins
- List of CinemaScope films
- Early implementation
- Audio
- Rival processes
- Technical difficulties
- CinemaScope 55
- Decline
- Modern references
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|300px|CinemaScope logo from The High and the Mighty (film)|The High and the Mighty (1954)
CinemaScope is a cinematographic technique which used an anamorphic lens to produce widescreen pictures. Crucially, these could be shown in theatres using existing equipment (and an adapter). CinemaScope pictures were produced from 1953 to 1967, and less often after.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “CinemaScope” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.