P3D Re: widescreen films

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In a message dated 97-11-08 13:00:42 EST, Marvin Jones writes:

<< 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=
 he
 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." >>

I don't know about all the studios but, in 1954 20th Century Fox released
about 30 movies, 17 in Cinemascope. In 1955, 25 of the 29 movies they
released were in scope. It was'nt just "exceptional" films that were done in
a widescreen process.
 


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