Third Dimension Movies And E X P A N D E D Screen (1953)

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Title:
Third Dimension Movies And E X P A N D E D Screen
Date:
1953
Publisher:
Cameron Publishing Company
Volume:
Third Dimension Movies And E X P A N D E D Screen
Leaf #:
0008
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Universal Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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The present trend in the motion picture Indus try to a change in "aspect-ratio" (the relationship between screen height to screen width) and third dimension films, amounts to nothing less than a tech nological revolution. This holds true, no matter whether a true stereoscopic, like Natural Vision, a depth de ception, like Cinerama or Fox's CineniaScope, or some variant, or a combination of both, be finally adopted. Neither the third dimension picture nor the change in screen size and ratio, Is new, both having been constantly in-and-out of the motion picture business, just as long as the writer can remember, and we started in the Industry something over fifty years ago. Wide film, and by that we mean a film wider than the present 35 mm standard, was used as far back as 1896, a number of cameras and projectors of that vintage, used film of varying widths up to 2% inches. In the late twenties, with the advent of sound, interest was again focused on the wide film, and a change in the 3-to-4 ratio was advocated. Paramount, RCA, Bell & Howell, Fox Film and others all pro posed the use of a film wider than 35 mm,, each suggested a different width film, and a different screen ratio. Fox actually built the necessary equipment for the making of motion pictures using a film 70 mm wide. These pictures reached the screen late in 1929, under the name of Fox Grandeur Pictures. The screen picture was 35 feet wide by 17¥2 feet high, the pro- ^ KANSAS CSTY (MO) PUBlit LIBRARY