14 Facts About CinemaScope

CinemaScope is an anamorphic lens series used, from 1953 to 1967, and less often later, for shooting widescreen films that, crucially, could be screened in theatres using existing equipment, albeit with a lens adapter.

The use of the CinemaScope technology became a key feature of the film's marketing campaign.

Two other CinemaScope productions were planned: How to Marry a Millionaire and Beneath the Twelve-Mile Reef.

The introduction of CinemaScope enabled Fox and other studios to respond to the challenge from television by providing a key point of difference.

CinemaScope was developed to use a separate film for sound, thus enabling the full silent 1.

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The first animated feature film to use CinemaScope was Lady and the Tramp, from Walt Disney Productions.

CinemaScope itself was a response to early realism processes Cinerama and 3-D.

Cinerama was relatively unaffected by CinemaScope, as it was a quality-controlled process that played in select venues, similar to the IMAX films of recent years.

CinemaScope lenses were optically flawed by the fixed anamorphic element, which caused the anamorphic effect to gradually drop off as objects approached closer to the lens.

CinemaScope 55 was a large-format version of CinemaScope introduced by Twentieth Century Fox in 1955, which used a film width of 55.

CinemaScope 55 was developed to satisfy this need and was one of three high-definition film systems introduced in the mid-1950s, the other two being Paramount's VistaVision and the Todd-AO 70 mm film system.

CinemaScope 55 had different frame dimensions for the camera negative and struck prints.

Lens manufacturer Panavision was initially founded in late 1953 as a manufacturer of anamorphic lens adapters for movie projectors screening CinemaScope films, capitalizing on the success of the new anamorphic format and filling in the gap created by Bausch and Lomb's inability to mass-produce the needed adapters for movie theaters fast enough.

The Panavision technique was considered more attractive to the industry because it was more affordable than CinemaScope and was not owned or licensed-out by a rival studio.