cinemascope in English

noun
1
a cinematographic process in which special lenses are used to compress a wide image into a standard frame and then expand it again during projection. It results in an image that is almost two and a half times as wide as it is high.
Re-started as a CinemaScope picture, it turned out to be a very wise choice.

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1. Balder also features HDR10, motorised lenses and a function to swap between 16:9 and cinemascope

2. The Mighty Panther* With The Jamaican Calypsonians - The Talking Parrot / Cinemascope ‎ (Shellac, 10") Kalypso, Kalypso

3. At a time when the cinema was being superseded by television, Bausch & Lomb developed improved optics for the CinemaScope process, which popularized the film-based anamorphic format and led most cinemas to double the widths of their screens.

4. Shot on location in Paris in CinemaScope by the legendary cinematographer Freddie Young (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago), "Bedevilled" shines a sweeping spotlight not only on the charms of leading lady Anne Baxter but on the grandeur and glamour that is the City of Lights.

5. Noting that the two movie sensations of 1952 had been Cinerama, which required three projectors to fill a giant curved screen, and "Natural Vision" 3-D, which got its effects of depth by requiring the use of polarized glasses, Fox mortgaged its studio to buy rights to a French anamorphic projection system which gave a slight illusion of depth without glasses. In February, 1953, Zanuck announced that henceforth all Fox pictures would be made in CinemaScope .