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

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MOTION PICTURES audience. The use of stereophonic sound, will call for the In stallation of a number of speakers placed in different locations throughout the theater auditorium, most of these will be installed right across the entire wide screen, one or two, down the sides of the theater audi torium, and maybe one speaker In the rear of the the ater. The multiple speakers will mean that a special sound track will be made for each picture, so that the correct sound can be fed Into the respective speaker for which it Is intended, and this will give sound per spective, It will be well not to confuse this CinemaScope process, with the first two stereoscopic releases of 20th Century Fox, as Fox is using the Natural Vision process for the filming of these two pictures, and It will be neces sary for the audience to wear the polaroid glasses to view these pictures. The first release made by the Cinema Scope process will come later. The Installation of an extra wide screen will be necessary with CinemaScope, and these screens will have to be the highly-reflective type such as the metallic screens. The extra screen width will call for an Increase in light output at the arc lamps. The whole system of CinamaScope is based on the use of a cylindrical compression lens, called an anamor- phoser, when making the picture, and the use of a sim ilar lens when projecting the picture. The use of this type of lens was considered by the industry over twenty years ago, to restore the aspect ratio of the screen pic ture, when its proportions were cut, because of the film ing of the sound track on the margin of the film, thus reducing the space in each frame, for the photographic picture. As a matter of fact this same type of compres sion lens was considered in the very early days of motion pictures, to help save film cost. Back in 1933 EL S. New-