Developed by Paramount with the intention of producing wide-screen images so that they could compete with Twentieth-Century Fox's CinemaScope. Technologically Paramount used 35mm film recorded horizontally through the camera which allowed for a frame width twice the size of conventional methods. Anamorphic lenses did not need to be used with the im...
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(from the article `motion picture, history of the`) ...no special cameras, film stock, or projectors. By the end of 1954, every Hollywood studio but Paramount had leased a version of the process from ...
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