Widescreen movies

[P3D Marvin Jones <Campfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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<< rue, but I believe the Bolex system pre-dated all of that. Besides,
 wide-screen movies weren't to become the "norm" until the late '50s at t=
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Sorry, but most of the movies done in 1955 and up were in cinemascope or
some
widescreen process.
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That's true to a certain extent. It's irrelevant to my point, however, th=
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in the late '40s and early '50s when the Bolex system was being sold most=

widely movie images were more narrow than they are today. By the mid '50s=

the standard was slightly wider that earlier movies -- 1.66:1 -- and by t=
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late '50s it was wider still -- 1.85:1. Cinemascope, by which we mean
generic anamorphic 2.35:1 movies, was used from 1953 on for exceptional
films, and later more frequently. But one would be treading shaky ice to
declare that it was ever the "standard," let alone to say, as one writer
lectured me privately, that "all movies from 1952 on were filmed in
Cinemascope."


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