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 At a time when the cinema was being superseded by television, Bausch & Lomb developed improved optics for the CinemaScope process, which popularized the film-based anamorphic format and led most cinemas to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

Während das Kino durch den Fernseher immer mehr verdrängt wurde, gelang Bausch & Lomb die Entwicklung der CinemaScope-Linse, welche den „Widescreen“-Effekt ermöglichte, mit welchem die Bildbreite in Kinos verdoppelt und die Popularität des Kinos wieder erhöht wurde.

2. 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 .

Am bekanntesten ist die erweiterte Cinemascope-Fassung von 1954.