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

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9k THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOTION^PICTURES The use of wide film, at least a film wider than the present standard 35- mm, has a lot to recommend it, the cameraman has a much greater scope in his com position, and considerable advantages in his lighting, especially as regards top-lighting and back-lighting. Direction of expansive scenes is greatly simplified. Sets do not have to be built so high. Scenes do not have to be "followed" with the camera, as there is ample room in a normal ^long-shot" for all lateral movement, used in most sequences. It offers advantages to the re cording of sound as the recorder would have a much wider sound-track to work with. It was generally agreed by all those who witnessed the showing of the picture on opening night, that the picture was much more pleasing to the eye. One of the men responsible for the development of Grandeur pictures was A. E. Sponable, who together with Case developed Fox Movietone sound, and who is today now working on the new Fox expanded screen picture to be known as CineniaScope. You might ask, well what happened to the new trend towards wide screen pictures. The new equip ment and the change-over in the studios, was to cost real money, and before the powers-that-be could decide if the investment would prove worth while, the stock market crashed and the country was faced with years of depression. This chapter has up 'til now dealt with the wide screen picture, obtained by increasing the width of the motion picture film and the width of the gate aperture in the projector. The new expanded screen picture used by Cinerama is obtained by the use of three projectors, each projector filling one-third of the width of the screen picture. The new Fox CineniaScope expanded screen picture is obtained by the use of a special com pression lens in making the picture and then employing